Spring Greening
SPRING GREENING — Recent warming and longer days have begun to awaken the region's grapevines at a time in mid-March considered "normal" by local growers. Growers now must prepare for early spring frost warnings when too cold nights can do damage to the young green shoots. Most growers utilize overhead sprinklers to coat the buds with a protective ice jacket while others turn on large wind machines to disturb the inversion layer of colder air.
Guardians of the truth
TIME magazine’s ‘Person of the Year’ for 2018 is a group of imprisoned and slain journalists. The selection honors journalists as “guardians of the truth.” Besides being slain and jailed, journalists everywhere now face toughening challenges to investigate, report and defend the truth. This is true in oppressive non-democratic countries like Saudi Arabia, Russia, Myanmar and it is true right here where economic factors are eliminating journalist’s jobs and where our president calls journalists “enemies of the people.”
Community Church of Sebastopol builds huts for unhoused safe parkers
Creating shelter and sanctuary for homeless individuals is ever the struggle but never the surprise in Sonoma County, but the Community Church of Sebastopol decided one need look no further than the parking lot to put up a roof.
Two public art installations coming in May
Public art can look like many things, but two new projects coming to Windsor next month will make art out of the mundane, and create a dual artistic experience.
Mill Creek completes wildfire protection plan
Fire Safe Sonoma and the unincorporated community of Mill Creek Road in the western wooded outskirts of Healdsburg announced last week the completion of their Community Wildfire Protection Plan (CWPP), a detailed document that measures wildfire risks specific to an area and identifies ways to mitigate that risk in a comprehensive plan.
