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July 11, 2025

Cannabis County: Dr. Hergenrather Recommends

Sebastopol’s nationally renowned, MD, Jeff Hergenrather has been recommending cannabis for all kinds of ailments ever since he served as the doctor at “The Farm,” a rural countercultural community in Tennessee 40 years ago.

Commentary: Perspective and guidance from a storm water inspector

I have been responding to spills in the city of Santa Rosa for the last 17 years.

Market has plenty to love for townies, tourists

I’ve been remiss in writing the market column, and I apologize.

Keeping the pace in the age of information

The last few decades have featured a slow, steady migration of personal and business communication online, a phenomenon that has left a lot of people wondering how to keep up.

The bottom lines of 2017

The worth of any endeavor or establishment should be measured with a triple bottom line of social, economic and environmental outcomes. And, if the year 2017 was to be measured as such, how might we rank its contributions in both a global and very local picture?

Community Corner

Ongoing through 2012 – Healdsburg Senior Writing Project, Senior Center, every Tuesday 10 a.m. to noon. Call 431-3324 to register.

Forays into the Fourth District: My priorities for 2020

Supervisor Gore was kind enough to share his priorities for the coming legislative year.

Fire Diary: The empty spaces left behind

Recently we had a visitor from the east coast, a friend of over 30 years whom we see a few times a year, but never out this way.

Off the Top of My Head

I believe in the American people. For years now it has appeared as if people in this country no longer think or maybe no longer know how to think. Perhaps it is just OPT (old people talk). Old people, like me, tend to think things are worse now than when they were young. I don’t really know. But I feel, judging from some folks’ behavior, that the number of high-thinking people in this country is diminishing and one day we will find ourselves tipped. By that, I mean, that the non-thinking folks will be so numerous that they will become an overwhelming majority and tip the scales of sensibility toward the other side.

This Week in H’burg: Abandoned quicksilver mine

This Week in H’burg is a weekly column featuring photos and fun facts from local photographer Pierre Ratté. Each week we’ll feature a new photo from Ratté along with a fact about the subject matter of the photo.
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