Last October was awful for all of us in Sonoma County. We all hunkered down and nested at home to cope with the trauma and pollution from the fires. Unfortunately, that meant that most businesses...

The number one rule of real estate development is that you can't beat the market. Any individual developer won't change the market, however government can change the market by changing the market...

In 2003 the Sebastopol City Council recognized that the old apple processing district in the northeast area of the city would eventually come under pressure to develop. The General Plan at the time...

Hole in the Wall suffered a 20 hour power outage in January, they lost over $15,000 in food. Insurance covered less than $3,000.
Starbucks is moving to McDonalds (Spencer Fish) site. Subway is...

CVS cuts the price of a generic EpiPen competitor in half

Associated Press

CVS is now selling a rival, generic version of Mylan's life-saving allergy treatment EpiPen at about a sixth of...

Contemplating the Sioux Treaty of 1868 at Thanksgiving 2016
for the Standing Rock Sioux and allies protesting the Dakota Access Pipeline set to run through their tribal lands

Countrymen, we...

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1.
I was not meant
to be renown
in the present
market town,

but in the future
some may...

I, Too


I, too, sing America.
I am the darker brother.
They send me to eat in the kitchen
When company comes,
But I laugh,
And eat well,
And grow strong.

from The Press Democrat, 9/24:
...

Kindness

Before you know what kindness really is
you must lose things,
feel the future dissolve in a moment
like salt in a weakened broth.
What you held in your hand,
what you counted and...

Just wanted to let the community of Graton know that if you have been seeing Monarch butterfly's in the area it is due in part to the efforts of my partner, Darlene . This is the second year of her...

hillary is a pragmatist & a visionary. sherrod brown & cory booker (perhaps our best congressional progressives) & the african american community likely support her because she doesn't promise the...

See the current Adult Classes at the Sebastopol Center for the Arts here.

Redwood Credit Union is now accepting monetary donations to aid the relief efforts and assist individuals and families whose lives have been disrupted by the fires in Lake County.
...

Andy's Produce is accepting donations for Valley Fire victims. Clothing, linens, food items, blankets, towels, etc. PD is also very helpful for updates. I phoned Whole Foods, Safeway, Fiesta and...

i don't know Denny Rosatti and i realize quite a few will jump on the wagon to upset Carrillo's seat...but, i am going to throw into the mix i believe, anyone, who wants 5th District, i hope is...

The Lanyard

The other day I was ricocheting slowly31137
off the blue walls of this room,
moving as if underwater from typewriter to piano,
from bookshelf to an envelope lying on the floor,...

Shakespeare’s Flowers

Now in February Alstroemeria repossesses spring.
One day the scholars will not pour these words.
The command of nature was never mine.
But that is not to say these...

The Coming of Light


Even this late it happens:
the coming of love, the coming of light.
You wake and the candles are lit as if by themselves,
stars gather, dreams pour into your pillows,...

I am grateful for the continued discussion of this topic on this site. That said, I believe that it does us well to remember that it is just that: a topic of conversation on this site. The people...

Well shoot Rustie, I'll bite... if no one else cares to (and I do hope that others will...) This is the closest thing I've seen to a survey come across my path, so.... to answer your well thought out...

A Poem A Day

I got another poem today
Just like everyday
A miracle on the internet
Sometimes I read them
Sometimes I'm too busy
Yet they still come
A poem a day

Over the past few months, I have felt the level of ignorance and stupidity could not get any worse on Wacco... This post, like so many others just re-enforce why Sebastopol is doomed and in desperate...

Yesterday I had a meeting with Gail Thomas, President of the Palm Drive Health Care Foundation about the stag list of doctors listed on the last page of the 21-page proposal on pdhcf.org.

There...

Meddling is not innocent. Ever see the "Goonies?" Or how about the new movie "Earth to Echo?" The premise of these films are based on developers coming in and destroying peoples homes to put in...

The problem with all of these decisions is that it boils down to taste. The taste of the urban planners, architects, developers, business owners and maybe the general public.

On the one hand,...

Sebastopol in the days of my youth and early adulthood was a completely self sufficient town where you could buy anything necessary for your family, but it was also a drive thru town on the way to...

Each day's digest contains posts from Noon the prior day to Noon on the current day. The digest starts going out at 3pm and usually finishes around 6pm. You then should allow people time to read it....

:waccosun:Not being a Sebastopol resident - I live in Cotati - I don't pay a tax that keeps the wonderful, safe, hometown Palm Drive going, but I always choose it over any other nearby hospital. I...

Trying to remove the BOD comprised of very good community oriented people would be a huge, painful distraction from the real issue of how to get this thing straightened out and get the hospital...

A Second Chance—25 Years Later
By Shepherd Bliss with Assumpta Ortiz
WaccoBB.net

A “Second Chance,” after 25 years of absence and silence, was recently offered Shepherd by Assumpta. Her email...

The Death of Her Dishes

There was a phone call.
When she got the news, she chipped a plate on the faucet,
and dropped it in the sink to finish it off.
Then she grabbed two more and hurled...

The Time Will Come


The time will come when
I know
it’s the last time.


The sun will shine or not
and I will know

Thanks for the support and getting the word out, but tickets sales are definitely NOT lagging. Some films are already at RUSH ONLY meaning that there are no more advance sale ticket available. Come...

Also, anybody notice how SEBASTOPOL SENIOR CENTER expressed gratitude? There's a group who wants to purchase meds from their car on freezing rainy winter afternoons.

It's not JUST YOUR city you...

Considering that CVS/Chase is NOT the best use of the crossroads site, what is?

Sebastopol is a unique town! It has a town center. It has major road access. It has bus routes all ways. It has...

Beautifully stated, sandoak ...

Really, what kind of world do we want to live in? A world where we further injure those that have made mistakes or a world where we help them to recover from those...

I like apologies, and Efren’s statement to the Board of Supervisors is an unqualified, no-excuses apology. This is rare from a human being. From a politician it’s exhilarating fresh air.

I liked...

By Shepherd Bliss
WaccoBB.net

I’ve never believed much in that old saw “love at first sight.” But that is the way it happened when I met Winnie at the Sebastopol Farmers’ Market on Jan. 27. Our...

By the definition quoted below, both East-West Cafe and Mary's Pizza Shack would have trouble opening if that ban was in place, since both are part of a group including at least one other location...

A New Year’s Blessing


Unhurried mornings, greeted with gratitude;
good work for the hand, the heart and the mind;
the smile of a friend, the laughter of children;
kind words from a neighbor,...

The Sebastopol Center For The Arts, now located at the Sebastopol Veterans Building on High Street, has a new ceramics studio. We have 10 wheels, tables and slab roller for handbuilding, three...

A Time to (B)e Very Purpose(ful)
or Why I Will Actively Support President Obama’s Re-election
This has been a season
for the well-dressed to sit in plush red seats, and cheer
the deaths of the...

I’ve been following the comments on WaccoBB and Sonoma West regarding the CVS/Chase process with a mixture of irritation and concern.


Two years ago I wrote an Opinion Piece for the Sonoma West...