Actually, lots of studies show that online communication fosters incivility. There is something about the online experience that emboldens people, whether called TruthTeller or Sam Jameson, to say...

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



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

A year of loss and chaos draws to a close.

Stories from a thousand cultures remind us that the cosmos is born - and reborn again and again - from chaos.

We have passed the darkest night of...

{This poem was shared during the Sebastopol Jewish Community's Rosh Hashana service on Zoom this morning}

Small Kindnesses
By Danusha Laméris


I’ve been thinking about the way, when you walk...

Love it!!! Always need a good laugh in these crazy times!! Thank you.!!

Hey Folks,

Regarding the gas station and junk food store proposal at Llano & 12...

In case you have not heard, in a very unusual occurrence, the Planning Agency canceled the virtual public...

In light of the current public health emergency WaccoBB will be taking the following precautions to keep everybody safe:

Our server will be disinfected hourly.
The sneezing smilie has been...

Thoughts on the Joe Rodota Trail (JRT) Clearing & Closure

On Friday afternoon — between visits to the JRT and meetings with County and city staff — a KQED reporter asked me a question about the...

From Supervisor Lynda Hopkins

Hi Stuart —


We’ve never met (at least to my knowledge). Rather than immediately launching a recall campaign against me, maybe you’d consider first sitting down...

The Rented Lakes Of My Childhood

I remember the lakes of my Michigan
childhood. Here they are called ponds.
Lakes belonged to summer, two-week
vacations that my father was granted by...

The Damnedest Finest Ruins



Put me somewhere west of East Street where there's nothin' left but dust,

Where the lads are all a hustlin' and where everything's gone bust,

Where the...

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...

California Choices, a collaborative effort by Next 10 and IGS at UC Berkeley, has been designed to provide a better understanding of the challenges that our state faces and to provide nonpartisan...

There's been a very difficult to find bug in the code that publishes new reviews in the Business Directory to the digest for the last couple of months. One symptom of the bug is that when a listing...

Anyone else hearing a high frequency pitch now that smart meters are being placed throughout Sebastopol?

As a two- year resident of Sebastopol coming from the Bay Area, I admire and applaud the activism of all you Sebastopol residents who are standing up, walking your talk, and opposing this absurd...

Ice Cream Truck Mystery


Every summer night, although the fog turns
evenings cool in Northern California,
one dilapidated ice cream truck,
pink as the strawberry
in a block of Neapolitan,...

As part of the soft-rollout of our new Business Directory, existing listings in the directory will now be included in the digest! :waccosun:
We'll be starting with just 2 new and 2 updated listing...

You can buy an analog electric meter at your local hardware store, at Allemand Electric Supply in Rohnert Park 707-588-2900 https://www.allemandelectric.com/ for $85, or used, refurbished, and...