Yea! Protect our wildlife. It is very unusual for mountain lions to attack people, unless they are acting like prey, by running, or the lion is protecting its youth from we predator humans. Many more...

But the real point here is the evidence of HOW MUCH MONEY does not want Noreen in office. that has to tell you something - and it is scary!

We have posted some of the online comments to the fictitious, defensive PD Close to Home "...Defense of Grape Industry" by wine industry managers, not "growers," in the Nov. 4 edition. You can read...

An article about the Aug. 5 fire at 3545 Bloomfield Rd. in the countryside appears in this week's Sonoma West and can be read at the link below. "Afternoon blaze a cautionary lesson" the sub-headline...

At the risk of sounding extreme and vindictive, money penalties mean nothing to people/corps like this. I think the CEO's ought to spend time behind bars. Couple of those would get the attention of...

This neighbor drives by Paul Hobbs new Watertrough Rd. vineyard in the Sebastopol countryside many days each week on the way to town. The vineyard borders on five schools with around 700 students.
...

I spoke to two people today who said that since the Dairyman Winery is so huge and out of place, it is likely not to be approved. I do not agree. These wine barons donate lots of money to the...

Please act on this now


DAIRYMAN WINERY &

EVENT CENTER


THE PROJECT: JJW Real Estate agents for Joseph Wagner of Rutherford, Ca. has requested a use permit for a huge winery and...

Do NOT buy their Protection Agreement!Or anything from them
It ain’t the Sears of Olde.

My fridge has had FOUR technician visits in less than two years
Now I need a FIFTH.
They cancelled my...

ROFL - Efren "I took cellphone video but didn't peek" Carillo has been bought and paid for by big business.
He'll spout the same old 'but they make jobs' line, then vote however big business tells...

The very lengthy staff report on the trails is now available on the city's web site.

After further review...
CVS still sucks

I live in the county just west of Santa Rosa and do a share of my business in Sebastopol, this is in spite of the horrible traffic in Sebastopol. I ride my bike to Sebastopol on the Joe Rodota trail...

I've never been called or considered myself "privileged" before. If working in and with the community for over 30 years, going to meetings, co-founding an activist committee, and working to get good...

:kidfight:

And continuing to misstate my words and misrepresent my positions won't fool the voters, Dan. I agree that an emergency room is better than an urgent care center. But I'm not yet convinced that an ER...

I am optimistic that we can make wonderful trails where every legitimate issue is satisfied.

In a conversation with me, supporters of the trails last week, and representatives of Gold Ridge and...

I'm not a fan of late mailers, but I don't see this as particularly mean and not out of the Rove playbook. The piece is simply stating the opinion of the signers, who genuinely believe that Jonathan...

Palm Drive Hospital needs to be run as a successful business. It doesn't necessarily need to make a "profit", but it has to at least cover its expenses, and "profit", or income above expenses, allows...

In a recent post, Dan Smith (aka Farmer Dan) stated that 85% of patients visiting the Palm Drive Emergency Room in 2013 actually required an emergency room rather than urgent care. The Foundation...

Alright Jonathan, I'll bite. I will answer your questions if you will answer questions I have raised in this forum. I am speaking for myself and not SebTom.

Here they are:
Do you have a list of...

For a full discussion on the various benefits of trails - economic, social and health - look here:

https://www.americantrails.org/resources/benefits/

Why I Endorse Gurney, Glass, and Slayter
For Sebastopol City Council
By Shepherd Bliss

I endorse and contribute to incumbents Sarah Gurney, Una Glass, and Patrick Slayter’s campaigns to...

Lynn Deedler asked me to post this for him:


Concerning comments on proposed multi use trails:

Several writers dismiss the value of having multi use trails in Sebastopol. In the recent Mayor’s...

I was lucky enough to live 1 narrow parcel away from bike trail that goes from Analy High School to 116. Even though it was used by many high school kids, I never had a problem with it and used it...

Zany Activist

28587

AUBERGINES has been showing games on their big screen...

First, let me start by saying that I know who I'm voting for, and it is for none of the reasons presented in any of this thread. I am personally not interested in anyone's endorsement because I find...

I've heard that you can see the World Series at the Community Market wine bar in Sebastopol.

The Rio,theater in Monte Rio will be showing all games on the big screen. Free admission.
Concessions will be selling hot dogs, popcorn, etc.

Round Table on occidental Rd. was a good place for the playoffs when no one could get it at home with out buying extra channels. A good salad bar, good pizza and NO corkage if you bring your own...

To Peggy Karp I respond:

“Jonathan's exposure of the faulty CVS traffic report was incorporated by Helen Shane into Small Town Sebastopol's lawsuit against CVS and provided perhaps the strongest...

I have been to many community meetings produced by both the Palm Drive Health Care District and the Palm Drive Health Care Foundation involving the potential reopening of Palm Drive Hospital,...

We need what Eileen Morabito of Occupy Sebastopol calls a "boycott/girlcott/catcott/dogcott," and bring in more movement humor. My puppy Winnie has barked her participation. "The needs of the...

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I believe you got the syllables backwards when you wrote "Armstrong Development". :wink:

On April 7, the Palm Drive District Board voted to close Palm Drive Hospital. I sat in the audience with my wife, Susan, who had cared for patients as a Palm Drive nurse for six years. When the...

I like Councilmember Eder's apt description below of CVS as creating a "crime scene." They are indeed the kind of predator corporations that we need to continue struggling against.

Though I differ...

https://www.waccobb.net/forums/waccobb/keep90days/2014-10-11_11-05-54.pngI so appreciate Mayor Jacob and Councilmember Eder for their votes, the tone of this letter, and their advocacy of a boycott. ...

:hmmm:


Sebastopol City Council candidate Jonathan Greenberg's ballot statement lists among his accomplishments: “provided leadership” in challenging CVS.

Perhaps he was in the leadership...

occasionally u get to know a business that has such incredible energy of the people that work there always being bright and smiley and cheerful and the owner seems like he's really there just for the...

Remembering Michael Kyes, Sebastopol's Most Courageous Leader

By Jonathan Greenberg
For WaccoBB.net
May 26, 2014

https://www.waccobb.net/forums/waccobb/keep90days/2014-05-26_14-43-53.pngIt...

The recent comments about under utilization and Sonoma West are not addressing the issue they claim to criticize. No one denies that under utilization is a problem. No one.

The issues are first,...

Scamperwillow,

First, I want to agree with you that the Palm Drive District Board members are not "self-interested, vindictive people." I have found no evidence of any corruption on the part of...

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...

I would be very cautious about assuming that what you think of as "charitable giving" is what Walmart thinks it is. Walmart's tax deductible contributions are largely to their own Associates In Need...

When I learned of the suit (thanks to WACCO), I stopped patronizing CVS, and don't anticipate returning.

Update on the Small Town Sebastopol vs. CVS Case

The suit charges that an Environmental Impact Report should have been prepared before giving CVS the right to proceed with processing the...

More elephant farts from the recall Carrillo group

I feel compassion for the woman whose home Efren Carrillo attempted to enter WITHOUT her permission at 3:30am. That is a terrifying scenario. Simply, there is no sugar coating that fact. She phoned...