Editorial

Editor: What a disappointment to see the Sebastopol City Council

Supporting McCaffery

Editor: I was so excited for the new Giorgi Park to open because

It’s “back to school” time again and that means shopping trips for new school clothes, buying new notebooks, pens and erasers for the backpack and complaining about how early the first class bell is scheduled to ring.

Thousands of people visited last weekend’s Steelhead Festival at Warm Springs Dam and Lake Sonoma. The people outnumbered the fish — and that has been our problem in the Russian River watershed for the last 60 years. The epic winter runs of spawning steelhead that once numbered over 50,000 are now down to a very few thousand, if that many.

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

Where the government is ³of the people, by the people and for

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