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Sonoma West Letters to the Editor, August 9, 2018

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Pollution prevention

Throughout the United States the week starting on the third Monday of September is recognized as National Pollution Prevention Week. Pollution prevention is reducing or eliminating waste at the source by modifying production processes, promoting the use of non-toxic or less-toxic substances, implementing conservation techniques, and re-using materials rather than putting them into the waste stream.

Where’s the Raven’s Evita?

“Where’s my Evita?” That’s the question on the mind of John DeGaetano, who will direct the famous musical at the Raven Performing Arts Theater this summer.

Less to burn

I am bewildered by Toni Lisoni's letter regarding debris burning

Flashbacks

100 years ago – August 11, 1921

Letters to the Editor: Sept. 24, 2020

Editor's note: As election season approaches, some of the letters we receive from other areas about local measures may appear in our Letter's to the Editor section.

COMMENTARY: Local energy summit

Gas prices have recently started to edge down below $3 a gallon.

This newspaper’s future

Don’t think we didn’t know in advance that messing with your newspaper wouldn’t get you excited and upset. We changed our typefaces and style sheets and moved things around a bit.

Public safety

The North Coast is undeniably crab-country. Our traditionally cold coastal waters have been perfect for producing some of our nation's healthiest crab harvests.

Teacher equity

Since the June 10th ruling in the education-equity case, Vergara v. California by Judge Rolf M. Treu, where he essentially agreed with the plaintiffs—nine California students—that the state’s laws governing teacher tenure and dismissal unfairly saddle disadvantaged and minority students with weaker teachers, tenure reform has become a hot-button item.
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Arts & Entertainment

Ballet Folklorico de Cloverdale

Mexican hero becomes a family legend

Local drama takes another step forward with the next play at the Raven, "Who Will Dance with Pancho Villa?" But the production, which opens on Jan. 22 for an eight-performance run, is hardly new. Gabriel Fraire and his brother John wrote it over 30 years ago and it had its first off-Broadway performance in New York in 1994.