Dear Barry - Thank you for creating such a beautiful space for community all these years. You've cultivated a great thing for this community. Your kind and caring way with people has always moved...

Thank you, everybody, for your kind words! They have really warmed my heart and given me a sweet afterglow for this endeavor. Big Smile:waccosun:




I am very happy to hear this! I've been in...

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The time has come to close the WaccoBB.net website.



Lots of factors have converged to make this the appropriate...

WHY IN PERSON VOTING IS BETTER NOW... The Registrar of Voters has stopped processing mail-in ballots for now. Only in-person ballots will be processed through election night at 7pm. After election...

I just had an experience that showed me quite convincingly the efficacy that wearing a face mask provides in reducing contact with a liquid aerosol. Yesterday, I hiked out to Bumpass Hell, the...

Re: Neysa Hinton endorsements (As stated on website, https://www.electneysa.com/):

For transparency and impartiality in my decision-making capacity, I have chosen to not seek or endorse any...

Greetings,

I do appreciate the request for what I know (or don't know) of the clinical data. But, I am going to decline for a couple of reasons. First, it's a long and complicated argument....

Hello Everyone,

Thank you for publishing this article. I'm not one to get my medical information from the press, so I had to read this one quite closely and compare with information I have from...

A year ago my husband lost his wedding ring and our 10th anniversary was coming up so I thought it would be nice to replace the ring during our renewal ceremony, planned for April 26 th. I made...

49938Sebastopol's Main Street merchants are facing a unique challenge that we are told only Governor Gavin Newsom can remedy. Sebastopol is located at the crossroads of two state highways-- 116 and...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0b_eHBZLM6U

This also is relevant (reposted from WACCO Reader)

Anatomy of Delusion: How Otherwise Conscious People Descended into the Darkness

Note: The purpose of this article is not to speak to those who...

It's no wonder we can't seem to control this virus. With fools like Peggy belching BS. If masks didn't cut infection why has every surgeon used one for the last 150 years. Every health department in...

Plandemic and the Meme-O-Sphere

Now, as you may have noticed, things have ticked up a couple of notches in the meme-o-sphere into flat out batshit crazy (that’s a statistical term if you’re...

https://www.waccobb.net/forums/waccobb/keep90days/2020-05-27_15-55-24.pngThe message from Peacetown this week and every week is, “Together, let’s build a better world.” This COVID-19 virus has proved...

Ahhh, that's so lovely. I love the howls here in Sebastopol, too. Sometimes I just step out on my little porch if I'm busy Zooming and join in from home, other times I walk up the block to the...

I first heard the howl in Petaluma. My daughter sent me a video of the sound out her window. My first thought was: how silly... millennial techies with nothing to do while working from home. I had a...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcBE7yq4Anw

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that may be technically true. It's not a jumping-off place to the opposite position, though - that no government ever acts in the best interests of its people.

Who would ever be such a Pollyanna...

The Onion
America's Finest News Source, <time datetime="2020-04-09T16:53:00-05:00">4/09/20
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‘It Was, For, Uh, Medical Reasons,’ Says Doctor To Boris Johnson, Explaining Why They Had To Give...

Trump is secretly executing libs all over America and exploiting the virus as an opportunity to explain all of the dead bodies. Most "corona victims" have a bullet hole in the head.

This is...

Well if you did watch this you would see how totally NUTS these people are. Saying the CDC and the pharma industry created this horror to make money. Sad that some people will probably believe this...

Dear Friends and nodding acquaintances everywhere,

Many of you...

Main lesson learned: If you're going to run about frantically at 4:30 a.m. packing stuff out to the car, catch and cage your two cats FIRST before they freak out.

But kinda nice to realize that...

The Times We’re Living In
Will Shonbrun


What I’d like to know is how to live in this time and place in our country? What to do or not do? How to be? What’s of value or not? What needs to...

There are several local sitting groups referenced on Spirit Rock’s website. Look under “Programs”, then “Non residential programs”, then “Community”.

I found these sitting groups referenced:
...

There are several Zen meditation groups in West County. There’s Stone Creek Zendo in Graton, & Bruce Fortin’s Zen Meditation group in Sebastopol, & I think Bruce’s wife has a meditation group for...

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From Reb Irwin

On Tuesday this week, the President said, “I think any Jewish people that vote for a Democrat, I think...

47526Monday, August 26; 6:30-8 p.m.
FREE, AND OPEN TO THE COMMUNITY!
Please RSVP to Skip Jirrels at [email protected]

Join Skip Jirrels, Sebastopol Public Safety Outreach Coordinator, at this...

Hello!
https://www.waccobb.net/forums/waccobb/keep90days/2019-07-23_11-08-02.pngI've been so inspired by Extinction Rebellion and their call to wake up to the climate emergency. I want to attend...

350.org - there are several local chapters
https://350sonoma.org

Center for Climate Protection
https://www.facebook.com/climateprotection

My friend Jane Vosburg runs the Divest CalSTRS...

46509We're just three weeks away from the Drawdown in Santa Rosa May 9, 2019, 6-9:30 pm. Join us as we discuss how to take action and meet the climate emergency we face now; including a discussion of...

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How do the Barlow tenants decide to rebuild when they now know what happens in a flood? While it had been 20+ years since the 1995 floods, only mother nature knows when the next one is coming. One...

https://www.waccobb.net/forums/waccobb/keep90days/2019-03-05_19-31-14.pngLonnie is no longer the owner of his barbershop that he has managed for 20 years. He has sold his business to a Korean woman...

At the risk of 'wading' into a 'flood' of comments;

When I first heard that the city was considering building in the Barlow, I assumed that they would build on pilings with parking underneath and...

The idea of the flood gates seems ridiculous to me. With so many buildings, streets and alleys through the Barlow, how could flood gates be set up that would be effective in holding back the water?
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And Fircrest!

Turkeys are native to Eastern North America, but not California. There are a LOT of turkeys living in the Sebastopol area. When I first saw this one, she had a companion. They, and now she by...

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The NE plan was not from a developer. It was a specific plan for the general plan put forth by the city. Yes, the main landowner hoped to benefit from it. When the plan failed he decided to do...

I don't recall any fight to stop the Barlow. As Denise says it matched the zoning and didn't need the same kind of changes as the Northeast Plan. And by the way, the Northeast PLAN was not a...

" were you here for the fight to stop the Barlow? It was not welcomed by many and many fought it. "

This is an interesting re-write of history. As I remember it, the huge fight was over what was...

I'm voting only for Richard Power, a local attorney who is very interested in and knowledgeable about our community and in the Palm Drive fiasco but doesn't have an axe to grind or past mistakes to...

It was an excellent technologically-oriented presentation. Bottom line according to the presenter is that more cell towers equals less EMF issues for smart phone users; your phone doesn't have to...

Attached and in-line below is a Schools for Climate Action press release about the Credo High School Student Council's Call to Climate Action Resolution. Thanks for your work and please contact me if...

I expect all vehicles, including mine, to stop at stop signs. It's true, some cyclists do not stop. (Btw, there are pro and con arguments about the safety and practicality of cyclists stopping at...

As a cyclist, I suspect the reason you believe there are not enough bikes in sebastopol to justify the lanes is because cyclists are virtually invisible to your average sebastopol driver. It is quite...

Vaughn R. Higginbotham

44796For the past five years, I have owned and operated a small electronic repair business in Sebastopol. As an entrepreneur, I feel that adding more local businesses will...

There are so many arguments against building housing - here's another one! Building housing will "worsen the quality of life for everyone". aka We Who Have Housing are the only ones who count. We...