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March 24, 2026

Guest readers, fundraiser encourage reading at Jefferson

A week of story time has gone virtual for students at Jefferson Elementary, who have guest readers attending their Zoom classes as part of Read Across America this week.

Who’s the baby?

My wife Bonnie and I recently went to the de Young Museum to see the Vermeer (1632 - 1675) exhibit on loan from the Mauritshuis in The Hague. The Exhibit is called “The Girl with the Pearl Earring” after what is perhaps Vermeer’s best known work. The girl turns to look at us over her left shoulder and as she turns our gaze is drawn to the single pearl on the lobe of her lovely ear. A text describes the painting as the Dutch “Mona Lisa.” The exhibit reveals a world of mostly prosperous looking men and women. Self assured, Protestant, one might even say secular. They are a class of people absent from earlier times, the early Renaissance and the Middle Ages. They are neither prelates (there is one painting of a preacher in the exhibit), nor princes, and they are certainly not peasants. They are burghers and their families, men of commerce, trade and industry; and they read and write. There is a charming, domestic scene of a woman, seated comfortably at a desk in her own home. She is writing, maybe a personal letter, maybe household accounts, but the point is she is writing, something that a few hundred years earlier few other than clergy were able to do.

Sonoma County draws closer to red tier as case rate continues to decline

The themes of the Sonoma County COVID-19 briefing on March 3 were staying in business in the time of COVID and when the county will get to the red tier of the state’s Blueprint for a Safer Economy.

Letters to the editor, Dec. 12

Humble and Thankful

‘The Bard’ comes to Ives Park for summer festival

“Summer’s lease hath all too short a date,” Shakespeare once

First class hospital

It is Wednesday, September, 17, 2014, I’m writing from Room 111B at Healdsburg District Hospital (HDH). My room overlooks a lovely courtyard, for which I am most grateful as I recover from my right knee replacement by Drs. Tomasin and Rose.

Salmon grant to focus on tributaries

Several Russian River creeks will be the initial focus of a

What can we do as the county stays in the purple tier?

There’s a lot of confusion over what is and isn’t allowed under the current virus tier. Find out the current rules.

Endorsing McGuire

Editor: I'm really excited to have moved to Windsor about a year

Vintners group makes leadership changes for 2018

Michael Haney named interim executive director
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