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Coastal protection, open space advocacy made Bill Kortum dean of local movement...

My amazing daughter has taken in 5 foster siblings from the children s shelter, they moved in last week,she is doing the foster-adopt program and it seems as though I might be a grandma or at least a...

Your article implies that Smith may have a hidden business agenda for trying to keep hospital open. Maybe it’s the same agenda in which he shelled out a couple of million many years ago to keep the...

[First let me say that I have learned not to respond to attacks like Jim Horn’s because it only gives them more credibility than they deserve. But since I have been asked, I would offer the...

Behind Palm Drive Hospital's Closing Part II: Wells Fargo Bank & the Shutdown Playbook

How A Bondholder-Friendly Shutdown Playbook Secretly Sunk Our Hospital

By Jonathan Greenberg
For...

Pasta King (Art Ibleto) (I think this is correct) has a special price for dinner for a fundraiser, something like $4.50 a head. This was the case a couple of years ago, the last time I looked into...

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IN MEMORIAM

MICHAEL C. RUPPERT

February 3, 1951--April 13, 2014
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I read about this, excerpted below, in the PD today, here

If the hospital board could NOT vote tomorrow to close our hospital, but instead move toward a doctor-run takeover of the hospital, the...

To possibly get a glimpse of the bald eagles and wonderful sights of nesting egrets, cormorants, herons, & even hawks, you can sign up now for the Laguna Foundation walk out around delta pond. You...

P.S. If a lot of your local amphibians are two-headed, legless, etc. that may give you a clue about the toxicity of the environment too.:greenbouncer:

Even organic vineyards are a monoculture wasteland to most non-human species, stripped of the food and shelter they need to live. Can we bring cumulative impact on wildlife into the permit process?...

I think many of your observations are probably pretty accurate. Most of us, called to service by a true friend or family member, would likely also try to mitigate the catastrophe to the best of our...

when a thread has deteriorated to the point where a central feature of many posts are speculations about the motives or beliefs or psychological state of other posters, rather than about the issue at...

In case you haven't seen this, here is a link to the wonderful Youtube video on Sebastopol's history produced by Erin Sheffield and narrated by Steve Fowler:...

Shepherd,

Have you been over to Singing Frogs Farm for one of Paul Kaiser's tours? He's growing lots more food, using much less water, creating and preserving habitat for bees, birds and other...

The permit for Paul Hobbs Winery on Watertrough Rd. was revoked July 2 by Sonoma County's Ag. Commissioner through the Permit and Resource Management Department. Hobbs once again violated the...

Brock Dolman of Occidental Arts and Ecology just sent me this link to the OAEC website about a bear on OAEC property:

https://oaec.org/living-in-bear-country

The bear shown on the link was...

from Elizabeth --

I was going to express gratitude for a post from odeek9, but found it had been deleted. I have no idea why, because it sure sounded sane and caring to me. So here's...

Has anyone besides me noticed how we have all united on Wacco to talk about wildlife and especially "our" bear? With all due respect to my fellow feisty, caring Wacco-ites, today we're not arguing,...

The bear came through the property we live on this afternoon! We're on the Occidental Road end of Jonive Rd, on the east side. The bear came from the woods to the North/East of us and headed West...

[This is a huge win! :woohoo: This was shaping up to be a battle royale, and we won, no doubt thanks to the persistant resistance to the development proposal by many dedicated activists. It's equally...

years ago, in Chicago watching a hockey game, we spun the theory it's also a self-writing drama. Kinda like the improv going on down the street at Second City, you throw out some characters and a...

so. the rhode island big guns have their panties in a bunch over losing some of their dough...
and they honestly believe that attempting to strong arm and bully this community into submission is...

For George Snyder


I Have Walked Along Many Roads


I have walked along many roads,
and opened paths through brush,
I have sailed over a hundred seas
and tied up on a hundred shores.

Avatar comes to mind. How a collective conscious comes together with action and not hot air is THE challenge.

There are tribes rippling the world. Many know who I refer to here =) We all need to...

We are living through the time of the great "extraction." This extraction has enabled governments and businesses to function without morality. At the core of this battle for stewardship is our...

We wanted to update everyone on the status of the Bunya Bunya Tree situation.

Things are looking up for the beautiful tree! After challenging our engineers we came up with a plan that satisfies...

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"Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia."- Charles M. Schulz


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I really think the Mayans, had their civilization not just evaporated in about 1300 AD and they were still around as an intellectual force, would be highly amused. Surely by now they would have just...

I look forward to feedback from your members and a conversation about how we, as a community, can find more effective ways to talk with each other about our common concerns.
Larry

by Larry...

hi..i am bret martin and im in charge of the farmers market decision making here at the barlow. if you contact barney he will refer you to me. call me 7073213707 or email [email protected].
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>>>Last night I witnessed mayor Guy Wilson backpedal and cave-in to one concession after another at the request of Armstrong Development that revealed his true allegience to corporate America instead...

so calmly using logic is condescending?? passionately flailing about will give better results??

Failing to understand the forces you're dealing with, failing to understand the source and limits of...

Let's see... We have City Staff help, Sebastopol Area Chamber of Commerce, SCORE mentors, Sebastopol Entrupenures group, Sebastopol Business Group/Network, Citislow, GoLocal and a couple more I...

Anyone who knows Kenyon Webster personally (rather than making assumptions about him because you don't like the facts that he states in the City Council meetings) knows that he is a man of real...

Whoa!

For Attic (David Prouty [Edit: name corrected] as listed in his profile, which I take to be true) and Big Bob: :chillpill:

I'm tempted to take down the above posts to uphold decorum,...

Second Spring

All day she sweats over griddles
feeding whoever shows up
pies roll from her fingers
birds and fish roast
she goes home and cools off in the shower

at dusk she comes to the...

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Morning Kitchen
Life is too sweet, possibilities
too huge.
I stand in the morning kitchen stunned.
In the last minute (minute!):
taste of lemon, Keemun tea, cream
(pause to consider...

Is anything truly what it was meant to be?

Well, I'm flattered that you ask me, but really you're better off googling these things; you'll get more up-to-date, authoritative advice.

But since you ask, here's the deal as I understand it:...

Grammer is a piano I play by ear, since I seem to have been out of school the year the rules were mentioned. All I know about grammer is its infinite power. To shift the structure of a sentence...

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concern(ing). As in, "That is concerning."

Which concerns me a great deal. And is a matter of concern.

John Robbins, one of the prominent people featured in Thrive, explains why he and 10 others have disassociated themselves from the movie:



There is a great deal about Thrive that I find untrue...

Dear City of Sebastopol Residents,

If you live in Sebastopol proper, i.e. can vote in City Council elections, please consider forwarding this thread to each City Council member. Soon. So they have...

Clarifications: A "concert" was not "letting out". It was around midnight. Most shows let out around 12:30-1:00 a.m on weekend nights.

Olembe was not, "making his way home". He had gotten...

Or MANY issues on waccobb - we are supposed to be a consious, careing community

A couple of additional items:

The "chemtrails" plane that crashed at Pt. Mugu Naval Air Station was a civilian air refueling tanker owned/operated by Omega Refueling Services, Inc. that was...

I am a 12 year veteran of the USAF. I am also very familiar with most types of military aircraft. I have two observations.

Large, four-engined military aircraft routinely overfly Sonoma County. ...

THE DEER
by Robert Feuer


It’s cold and the streets of Guerneville are dull and vacant as I pass the tortilla joint and aim my car homeward to Camp Meeker. Double-strength...