Steelhead lessons
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.
Another vote for Healdsburg’s charms
Is Healdsburg the best place to live in Sonoma County?
What does the Sebastopol Teen Club need? More teens
In an effort to make Sebastopol a more teen-friendly place, several local organizations and businesses have joined together to create the Sebastopol Teen Club, a virtual hub of local events, classes and swag, designed especially for teens.
Sebastopol Senior Center will provide delicious and affordable meals through new Harvest Café
After suspending its popular in-house lunch program amid the onset of COVID-19 in March 2020, the Sebastopol Area Senior Center is instituting a new dine-in experience for area seniors and community members: the Harvest Café.
Tribune Oct. 31 print edition delayed, now on racks
Update:Â The print edition for Oct. 31 is now on our racks. Due to concerns of evacuations and postal service, Sonoma West Publishers did not mail this edition out. All stories in the Oct. 31 edition, which focuses exclusively on the Kincade Fire, are also available for free on all four of our websites. Thank you, readers, for your patience as we return to our normal print schedule for the Nov. 7 edition.
Kindergarten teachers charm, challenge pupils
It's not every day a witch crashes into a tree, but last
Guest Commentary
Hold on to your butts — your cigarette butts, that is. Let’s face it: many smokers litter when discarding their cigarette butts. They are dropped on sidewalks, tossed out the car window, and left on beaches. A cigarette butt is so small, it is easy to feel like we’re really not littering at all. What’s a cigarette butt compared to tossing a bag of fast food wrappers into the street or pouring a can of used oil in the gutter?












