Σεβαστος = venerable, respectable (Sebastos)
Πόλης + city (Polis)


The origins of the name are Greek. There are cities in the old Russia by that name too; that happened when the Greek...

I wish I was there at this meeting unfortunatly I did not hear about it until now. The school has the lives of all of us in their hands-also Paul Hobbs. The Twinn Hills school district needs to STOP...

I want to express my appreciation to Sebastacat for his thorough and accurate report on last night's Twin Hills school board meeting. Following is what I said. I wrote it in short lines in order to...

TWIN HILLS SCHOOL BOARD MEETING COMMENTS, JUNE 12, 2013

Today, at 5:00 p.m., about 30 fathers, mothers, neighbors and concerned community members met at Apple Blossom School, next to the apple...

[Posting for Jina]

Paul Hobbs Buys School District
By Jina Brooks

When you look at the map and see the vineyard wrapped around Apple Blossom Elementary School, it’s the disregard that hurts. ...

Here's the video I shot of the recent meeting put on by the Watertrough Children's Alliance on May 29th, 2013 at the Grange Hall in Sebastopol. Sorry, but I ran out of room about halfway through the...

Let's be clear on the fact that wine is a drug just as much as anything else is. In fact, alcohol is second only to nicotine in number of people killed every year, several times more than all the...

Colleen: Thanks for your post.

I, too, found the P.R. person sent to last night's meeting by Hobbs to be ill-equipped to deal with the plethora of hard questions and the barrage of criticism from...

Teachers in the school district have been issued a gag order. They have been directed NOT to speak out regardless of their views.

Twin Hills /Apple Blossom school district really do need to step up to the plate here for all the people involved in their schools or they will be shut down due to lack of students. I personally will...

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I would re-state the expert part of legal representation as; he knows the value of being an insider to the organized crime which masquerades as the Sonoma County justice & permitting...

Mothers and Allies Challenge Wine Industrialist

By Shepherd Bliss
WaccoBB.net

Half a dozen mothers from Sebastopol and its countryside quickly rallied hundreds of people to their side to...

I feel outraged that our county would allow this vineyard to go in and destroy this beautiful apple orchard. The winery people will lie,lie,lie to all of us to get what they want. All they really...

That's a good idea. I've been thinking that a new agriculture buffer overlay zone would be helpful that would be applied to all parcels that are currently zoned for agriculture that adjoin...

Some things to consider:


1. The only thing constant is change. There are many policies and practices from the past that we now view with disbelief as we have made progress and understand how...

actually the possibility of an organic vineyard has been hoped for in this thread. the problem is the conversion is reported to involve paul hobbs. weenie seems to know him, do you? his rep as a...

"Your personal story is obviously coloring your views."

I surely hope it is! Since it is our personal experiences which help us to form our life views and become the people we are.

When I read...

Christine, Thanks so much for the efforts and getting the word out about the petition, I've forwarded it to hundreds of folks so far. Several previously unknowing parents of Sunridge, all the parents...

Thankyou for caring! I was one of the home owners in Freestone who experienced first hand how insane some of these grape growers are. When Phelps winery moved onto Freestone Flat Rd. the owner of...

So glad this petition is now happening. Everyone needs to sign this and fight for a healthier enviroment for all living beings,especially our children and wild life that call this property home. ...

Dear Teenie Weenie, I grew up in Sonoma County,and have experienced what people with big investments into non organic vineyards have done to the land which used to be healthy and thriving. I grew...

Dear Community,

Here is a petition to sign as a first step in having your voices be heard on this issue. Please pass this on and join a growing and diverse alliance of concerned families and...

Dear WACCO Members & Readers,

It is an awesome and amazing testament to our community when we mark how far we have come in just 3 days since we have started to organize to address the proposed...

It doesn't always work out. Sometimes people lose money and sometimes children matter more than someone paying the bills.

Now, Ajay.....

Can you HONESTLY say that grapes don't require much spraying when we all know that their bane is POWDERY MILDEW? And, if powdery mildew gets a foothold in a vineyard, it can wipe...

Fool me once, shame on you. But fool me twice........well, you know the rest.

Yet, that seems to be precisely what has happened in the case of the latest vineyard "conversion" proposal, as...

:hmmm: There is a beautiful healthy apple orchard located next to Apple Blossom School on Watertrough Rd.,Sebastopol,Ca. This is a older apple orchard with many trees subject now to being cut down...

Magick, You've been a voice for me, with the Sebastopol City Council, and County Supes. You often speak for environmental and health concerns that are being ignored or swept away by the forces of...