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November 21, 2025

Used motor oil and filters

Millions of gallons of oil have been spilled across the United States through ship, rail and road collisions, explosions, pipeline ruptures, storms, etc. Big oil disasters continue to reverberate through the environment and through our news cycles: the BP oil rig explosion that wreaked havoc in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010, the ship Cosco Busan that crashed into the Bay Bridge in 2007 dumping oil into San Francisco Bay, and the famous Exxon Valdez spill in Alaska in 1989. While we watch the ongoing analysis, litigation and attempted cleanup from these high-profile events, there are measures we can all take to reduce a lesser but still very serious threat.

Our overlapping droughts

It’s official: Sonoma County is now suffering through multiple droughts, all at the same time. Some are related to one another and some are not. Some are being worsened by the coronavirus pandemic and its related economic impacts. One of the droughts we can mostly blame on Mother Nature, but the others are totally on us.

THE VIEW FROM HERE: A penny saved

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Letters to the Editor: March 11, 2021

Why cultivate?

Local laundry list

In just two weeks we will turn our calendars to a new year as we

Letters to the Editor June 13

Priorities for the city’s future

It started here

Governor Jerry Brown recently signed five important tobacco control laws, made possible because of the governor’s special session on health legislation.

Water fights

I appreciate your three informative November articles on the

Making a local list

— Rollie Atkinson

Point with pride

The late Ernie Rapley was an old time newsman. He worked for the
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Arts & Entertainment

Thanksgiving dinner

Finding the feast for Thanksgiving Day in Healdsburg

While in normal times cooking a big meal at home is possible if not enjoyable, this year’s ballooning guest list makes it all but essential to call in reinforcements and pick up a Thanksgiving meal in advance, in order to be ready for the holiday.