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Letters to the Editor 11-24-16

Go Elizabeth

Breaking eggs, bamboozling beans to celebrate Jefferson students

The grossest flavor of jelly bean is dead fish.

Grape harvest halted by smoky skies, continued wildfire threats

Dry Creek, Russian River valleys filled with smoke and unpicked ripening grapes

West county schools working on COVID safety plans

Some west county school districts are positioning to invite elementary and some middle schoolers back for in-person learning now that Sonoma County’s adjusted daily case rate has eased to below 25 per 100,000 residents for five days straight, signaled in a Feb. 10 joint press release from the county and Sonoma County Office of Education.

Montage Parking Lot Challenge Gets Results

Montage Healdsburg’s plan to remove 107 blue oak trees to build a new parking lot has been withdrawn by the developer. The plan, approved by the Planning Commission at its May 28 meeting, drew immediate protest from a group of local environmentalists, who took the formal measure of filing an appeal of the approval....

Influential landscape painter, Healdsburg figure, Wade Hoefer dies

The colors of olives, moss, dry reeds, pillowy clouds, brown earth, slack water, dusty sunsets and dark amber fields are also colors of Healdsburg, where they are prominently displayed in the paintings of artist Wade Hoefer in local galleries, restaurants, private residences and hotel lobbies. His distinctive large canvases are people-less landscapes that are an unmistakable part of Healdsburg’s aesthetics, a wine country palette of his own dominion now shared in perpetuity with his adopted hometown. Hoefer died just over a week ago on Aug. 11 at a local hospital. He was 72.

Letters to the Editor 8-14-14

Relieving traffic

Evacuation orders, warnings lifted for large portion of county

Update, Wednesday, Aug. 26 8:00 a.m. —

Community briefs

Update for Shiloh Road Left Turn Interim Improvements Project

Letters to the Editor 7-3-14

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