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Right on their jobs

I can use a diversion. How about some Halloween stories?

I’d love to change the world.

It’s not too late to sign up for Sonoma County Library’s 2024 Summer Reading Challenge. All it takes to win free books is to sign up, read for a few hours and win. After just five hours of reading, the young reader earns a free book; 10 hours brings two books. Read more, and the prizes get better...

Thanks for the vaping special

Hello, and happy 2020. Every January, the city asks you how Measure V funds should be spent via an online and print survey.

Captured moments. Brought to you by the Friends of the Windsor Library, the gallery will be featuring instants of time that were snapped by members of the Santa Rosa Photographic Society. Although each has a title, the viewer is invited to use his/her imagination and interpret what the image could convey. Is that one incredibly fresh, green and juicy? Another robust and energetic? And then there’s the one that is simple, quiet and yet provokes a surprising emotional response. Plus, check out the unusual, the mysterious, the elusive, yet elegant and spellbinding. Come, contemplate and enjoy. April 16 – April 28, gallery open week days at 1 p.m.; Saturdays at 11 a.m. Artists reception, Wednesday, April 18, 6 p.m.

The traffic sign on Dry Creek Road reminds me farming takes place here every day. And, isn’t it glorious to live in an area that is grounded? Literally grounded, making a living from the earth. If you’ve been on a local road behind a tractor...