Newsom declares drought emergency across California
Gov. Gavin Newsom yesterday declared a drought emergency for the entire state of California, as conservation efforts continue to fall far short of state targets.
Finally some good news for California nursing home residents
After a devastating sweep that killed more than 9,000 residents and workers, COVID-19 has nearly disappeared from California’s nursing homes.
Lower Russian River curtailments could impact Healdsburg’s Dry Creek water right
Healdsburg utility officials say they expect to see more lower Russian River water restrictions as early as next week, which would affect the city’s Dry Creek water right. The possibility comes from curtailment issued earlier this week for nearly 1,500 pre- and post-1914 upper Russian River water right holders.
Healdsburg’s Senior Home Is Reportedly Being Run by a Mysterious New LLC
The saga continues this spring for the Healdsburg Senior Living facility on Grove Street. Last we heard, back in March, the Press Democrat reported that Pacifica — the San Diego-based real estate and hospitality company that has owned Healdsburg Senior Living since 2018, along with 80...
Traditional Ecological Knowledge: The California buckeye
On a recent visit to Jon Wright’s Feed Store for chicken feed, I noticed that Jon still has a poster of his customer Joe Montana in his #16 Jersey on the back wall next to the wood burning stove in his office. It brought back the memory of Nicholas Montana, a boy in my fourth grade classroom, who, while reading the book “Ishi: Last of his Tribe” and learning about California botany and the native buckeye tree, asked, “Ms. Kelley, are you talking about conkers? It was what his grandfather called the nut of the buckeye, and in my mind I saw children throwing them at each other in the Mayacamas Mountains. That led to a parallel motion picture where I envisioned children of the Pomo or Wappo people, or Ishi from his Yahi tribe, also collecting and throwing buckeye nuts at each other, in their time and in this place we now call California.
Sebastopol’s Rotarians, Arts Center and VFW Post handing out holiday meal boxes on Christmas Eve
The Rotary Clubs of Sebastopol, the Main Club and the Sunrise clubs will be unable to host its annual community all-comers Christmas dinner this year and instead club members, along with the Rotary Club of Sebastopol, the Sebastopol Center for the Arts and the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 3919 will be assembling Holiday Food Boxes for free distribution on Christmas Eve at the Sebastopol Center for the Arts (282 S. High Street, Sebastopol.) Also supporting the giveaway is the Gold Ridge VFW Post.
