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February 6, 2026

Barrel of fun, wine or both?

At least since Isabelle Simi converted a big wine vat at her Healdsburg winery along the Old Redwood Highway into a roadside wine tasting  room just after the Great Depression and that “little old winemaker” invited the world to visit the Italian Swiss Colony, Sonoma County has beckoned agricultural visitors. Organized in 1973, a hundred or so small family farms created Sonoma County Farm Trails to welcome thousands of Gravenstein Fair goers, pumpkin patch seekers and Christmas Tree farm trekkers. Before that, apple blossom and prune blossom tours drew busloads of out-of-towners.

Distance learning continuing through winter break

Following similar decisions round the county, the Windsor Unified School District Board of Trustees voted unanimously to continue in distance learning through winter break at their meeting on Oct. 20.

Controversy overshadows HUSD meeting

Positive items on docket, but concern over charter school funding

Letters to the Editor 1-2-14

Sebastopol Walks success

Without poultry, Doherty & club members still had work to do

This year, the chicken didn’t cross the road to get to the fair.

Letters to the Editor 4-11-13

Caption faux pas

Carrots, sticks and jabs: What will California do to win over vaccine skeptics?

Today all Californians 50 and older are now eligible to get their coveted COVID vaccine — including one politically imperiled 53-year-old governor.

So curious: What’s happening next to Taco Bell?

Q: Reader Leonard Baron asked Sonoma West, “What’s going to be built on the large parcel next to the Redwood Shopping Center in Sebastopol?”

Letters to the Editor

Help the Wallace House shelter

Letters to the Editor: Oct. 3, 2019

Opposed to homeless camping
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