Future Farmers Fair auction a “virtual” success
Forget about the dusty pens, nervous waits and the chilly night air that usually goes with each year’s youth livestock auction at the Healdsburg Future Farmers Country Fair. Maybe there’s something to be said for this all-digital way of life we’ve been forced into these days.
2021 Steelhead Festival canceled due to COVID
The annual Lake Sonoma Steelhead Festival is the most recent in what will likely be another round of event cancellations starting off 2021. Last week Friends of Lake Sonoma announced that its festival, which was slated for Feb. 21, 2021, is canceled due to COVID-19.
CROWDS
Crowds can be powerful, dangerous, glorious, murderous. Think of the crowds in the streets of cities in the middle east in what has been called the Arab Spring, a spring that has blossomed in hope for justice and freedom, a spring that has also suffered the chill of brutal repression. Think of the crowds of the Occupy events around the US, citizens gathering in protest, in hope, in resentment, and sometimes in crazy violence.
Measure O poised to pass
Measure O — the Sonoma County quarter-cent sales tax proposed to fund mental health and addiction services and facilities for children, adults, seniors, veterans and those experiencing homelessness — appears to be passing as of Wednesday morning, Nov. 4.
County aligns local health order with state
Changes issued by state, including the opening of nail salons, will immediately be effective at county level













