Today I got in the mail a "gift card" for $150 if I sign up for 2 Chase accounts, with directions to go to the Chase branch in Lucky's.

Didn't know there was one in Lucky's, but isn't the new...

Well, I've been very busy and unable to respond till now. I didn't even want to express "gratitude" until I knew I had time to respond. Now I have to figure out (navigate?) how to place quotes and...

Yes, racism is alive and well in the USA (though the situation has improved in some ways compared to the 50s and 60s when I was growing up). I could tell you an ugly story about what happened to my...

As many of us know, West County only has a winter shelter in Guerneville. Funding for homeless and transitional programs are way down right now. Even existing non-profit programs are in jeapordy...

My son, a friend of Olembe's and white, gets stopped by the police regularly. I put it down to him being 20, and perhaps a tad dour looking (Olembe's sweeter looking), and apt to be out on the...

I think this is a really important issue and I'm sad to see this thread turn so ugly... I think we should all calm down a little bit and try to bring some personal integrity into this discussion. As...

Dear Noah,
We could have sworn you said the ark wasn't leaving till 5.
Sincerely,
Unicorns

Dear World,
Please stop freaking out about 2012. Our calendars ends there because some Spanish dirt...

A scenario almost exactly as you described above happened to me at the railroad square in Santa Rosa... I was playing hacky sack with about 5 other people when a cop stopped our game grabbed me and...

I am so sorry to hear about your son. I grew up here in Sebastopol and now I am in my 40's raising my children who are teens. About a year ago I met an old high school girlfriend at Hop Monk's and...

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Scott,

My apologies for jumping to conclusion about Live Nation’s involvement in the Festival. It wasn’t intended as a personal attack on you. When I read what appeared to be a press...

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Considering Whole Foods' corporate business practices, anti-union stance and their bogus organics from China, they are not any better as community partners than Verizon.

Attila

Sabrina, my lovely sweet friend, I cannot agree with you here. Whole Foods is notorious for its Greenwashing, Overpricing, Union-busting management. And its CEO who basically blamed cancer and other...

Hats off to the folks at Hobbs winery for achieving the impossible: Making John Jenkel into a sympathetic character.

>>>The example you use is objectionable because of the type of use rather than it's ownership. To take you example further, should government have a preference for a locally owned and operated...

The art tent was located right next to an alcohol vendor and there were several scary moments shouting, shoving, almost brawls - sloshing drinks - generally sloppy people... and no, I don't like what...

I have been involved with the (Health and) Harmony Festival for most of it's existence in one form or other. Through the 1980s and into the 90s, I coordinated the Vision's Art Show and worked with...

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When we live in a democratic society where the Government is truly of, by and for the people, then we the people, not corporations, will determine what is best for OUR communities. OUR...

Folks, I gotta say it. I believe that the idea of the "American Way" founded on honest competition in the marketplace is one of the most pernicious theories anyone ever thought of. Actually, I'm...

Okay, Barry, I am against our government over reacting too but somewhere, somehow, long standing local MUST take precedence and looking at all the reasons Community Market has stated, this is an...

https://srcommunitymarket.com/images/header_cm.jpgHere's Community Market's position:

https://srcommunitymarket.com/fightsprouts.html

ATTENTION CUSTOMERS AND STAFF!!!
Does the opening of...

Hello,
I don't want to sound dogmatic, but was anyone else bothered by the amount of drug use and pot smoking (slightly separate in my opinion) at Harmony Festival? I'm thinking out loud here, but...

Is it possible that the 'aluminum lake' is a puddle of melted aluminum from the body of the airplane? Wooden airplanes are quite rare these days...

CARRQ update on the June 8 Superior Court Hearing

CARRQ supporters nearly filled the court room on Wednesday as quarry owner John Barella's lawyer argued against the tentative ruling made last...

While second hand smoke can have health effects when exposed to over a long term, and particularly in an enclosed space, I'm not going to buy it as a significant health problem at the 3-day large...

https://www.harmonyfestival.com/images/stories/home11/iPone.jpgThe Harmony Festival App is now available in the App Store! Free!
Click on the link below or the image to the left.
...

Thanks for the posting Barry, it's certainly interesting news for Sebastopol.

And...no EMF! Ride the light, folks!

-Dane

Dixon,

What you are responding to, that I have written, as if mine are closely argued comments, with your closely argued replies, are just off the cuff observations by me. I think that is where...

I don't go into Aubergine because the owner once followed me around the store, holding up the skimpiest lingerie and suggesting that I try it on. I was not even shopping for lingerie that day and...

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I write this letter with a very heavy heart and hope that my good intentions will come...

Hey! Our favorite local strawberry guy is open again with the best strawberries...pesticide free...Route 12, coming from Sebastopol toward Santa Rosa it will be on your left, just a little past the...

The Santa Rosa Tool Library is now open in their new location for all your Spring Cleaning needs ... pole pruners, loppers, hedge trimmers, cultivators, and string trimmers. Check out the full list...

Here's what the CA Vehicle Code actually says:

V C Section 21950 Right of Way at Crosswalks

Right-of-Way at Crosswalks

21950. (a) The driver of a vehicle shall yield the right-of-way to a...

Peter Margolies was kind enough to supply the following advice:

Hi,
Not sure why the bulletin board is acting so strangely today but I don't seem able to get to the place where I can answer your...

Hooooooooooorrrrrrrrrrrraaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!!!
Go get 'em, CHP!!!!!!!!

I want to locate compassionate, educated and enlightened people who are sympathetic to the right to die movement. I want to connect and share thoughts over this controversial, yet liberating and...

Q&A with Beekeeper Randy Sue Collins

Wednesday, March 23rd, 2011 |
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Kenwood resident Randy Sue...

no we don't. Are you just objecting to the visibility of police on a general level?
I have my own preference as to what laws - especially traffic law - they'd enforce. I want them to make sure...

driving home last night, dark, on Guerneville Road, due to heavy rain and standing water, I had difficulty doing the 55 mph.

The speed limit is also governed by the road conditions. Even if a...

If someone has been cited two previous times for speeding on a certain road, it's difficult to have sympathy for that person when they get a third ticket for speeding on the same road. It appears to...

If you want to be sure to avoid a speeding ticket, train yourself to read every highway sign with special attention to speed limit signs. Then, adjust your speed to the posted limit before you...

Hi Caroline - Our wine shop is near where you got your ticket.

at the Antique Shop/Todd Road and the first Cooper road. I am pretty sure this was CHP but could have been Sonoma County Sheriff....

If westbound on 116, the speed limit drops from 50 mph to 45 mph at Llano Rd intersection, not at Lone Pine Rd. Know the posted speed limit at all times by noting the regulatory speed limit signs,...

I usually do not respond to postings on WACCO, but since there was a second post concerning Ron Basso’s approach to adding residential to downtown by building or utilizing second story housing, I...

To be clear, I really don't know all issues, concerns, and alternatives regarding the Dutra plant, so I can't take a firm position. However I do find Efren's vote disturbing and hold it as suspect...

Let's not confuse people here; the name is Carrillo. Let's vote him out!

I liked Carrillo and I voted for him, but I don't like what he's doing now; out here near the coast, where the roads are very bad, and the county closed the Annapolis Road Maintenance Yard, he voted...

You know, Pro-Dutra folks keep trying to frame this as some NIMBY thing, like we are a bunch of affluent spoiled white babies, which is not true. But it sounded to me like they may have gotten to...

I can't believe he did it. And his reasoning "I grew up by an asphalt plant and so can you!" That was in the 70's guy, now a days we fight for our communities and our neighbors.

We live in a...