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July 9, 2025

Community Corner

Ongoing through April 10 – Healdsburg Center for the Arts presents “Full Circle: Pond Farm Revisited,” an exhibition of pottery by alumni of Pond Farm. 130 Plaza Street. www.healdsburgcenterforthearts.com.

Meet the school board candidates endorsed by the Windsor Dems

Three candidates for the Windsor Unified School District Board of Trustees have been endorsed by the Sonoma County Democratic Party and the Windsor Democratic Club.

Rainy Day Funds

How much rain has fallen on us so far this winter? It’s rained enough already that some folks are comparing this year to some of the really big wet ones from recent memories, like 1951, 1986 and 1995. Last month was the wettest January on record.

Ripe Rewards: Spring vegetables

Artichokes, asparagus, fava greens, fresh green onions, and so much more begin growing this time of year. Those vegetables scream of a bold appetizer plate or maybe a meal of greens. How healthy. They are examples of bright, beautiful and in-season greens happening here and now.

Commentary: On journalism

I was sitting at my desk at the county on Thursday when I found out about the shooting at The Capital Gazette, a newspaper in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, an area similar in population and size to Sonoma County. I exclaimed, “Oh no!”

Country Roads: Camellias, a winter gem

So many of our flowering plants are taking either a long hike into dormancy or a short walk to the compost pile. We discover, by observation and experience, whether some need extraction while others only need to be ignored.

There’s Snow on Them Thar Hills

Epic conditions in Sonoma County this past week. Snow warnings for one to two feet possible at elevations above 1,500 feet. Healdsburg’s elevation is 100 feet, Cloverdale’s about 350 and Hopland’s 500.  Snow the prior week fell to about the 300 foot elevation, and four...

Someday We’ll Laugh About This … Right?

Oh, the stories they can tell

We’ll Laugh About This Someday, Right? Hygge

I don’t know if you are familiar with the term “hygge,” which is pronounced “hue-guh.” It is a Danish word that captures a feeling of contentment or coziness – alone or with friends, at home or out and about – that strikes one as special and charming. It’s sort of a gathered ‘round the hearth feeling … a safely out of the storm feeling… at peace with yourself and the world.

Where do all the taxes go?

Tax Day is looming, the deadline we all over complain about, deal with anyway and somehow always survive — often ending with a nice refund check from the IRS. How much of our complaining is justified and how much is just an inbred response to anything made mandatory by the big, bad government?
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