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The look could only be described as a smirk. That’s what it was, that’s what struck me to the core like a cold stabbing, sliver thin bolt of ice. The photo in the paper showed the brothers standing at the Boston Marathon. Near a place that would, in a matter of minutes, resemble more a ravaged war zone than a celebratory gathering of runners from around the world realizing their life-long, or annual, dreams.

I am shocked to see the misleading signs regarding Drakes Bay Oyster Company popping up around the Sonoma and Marin Counties. These signs should say Save Point Reyes Wilderness. I strongly support organic sustainable agriculture and I love oysters but the attempt by Drakes Oyster Company and their corporate allies to deny wilderness status to Drakes Estero has nothing to do with farming and everything to do with opening publicly owned wilderness lands to development. Pt. Reyes National Seashore is a wonderful example of cooperation between agriculture, the national park system, and wilderness.

Gun obscenity

SDAT team in Sebastopol

Local justice

The road not taken

County PRMD hosting public meeting May 10

City Managers across the nine Sonoma County cities are looking for ways to share services and for the first time in the north county, that collaboration is paying off.

The Healdsburg Tribune, and its sister publications The Windsor Times and Sonoma West Times & News, received several awards at the 2012 California Newspaper Publishers Association annual conference in Los Angeles last weekend.