Also you can upload your pictures to Shutterfly.com for free for another safe place to keep them. It is just not wise to keep your only pictures in your laptop - so many things can happen. Sure...

Tuesday, July 15 is the DEADLINE for submitting y our design for this exciting project. See the details at : www.cittaslowsebastopol.org/villagebuildingconvergence.html

Send an email to indicate...

We are hosting a meeting for all interested artists on Monday, July 7 at 5:00 pm. Meet on McKinley Street in front of Taylor Maid to see the proposed locations and ask questions.

This could be wonderful Michele, but I am guessing the property owner is hoping to make a bunch of money selling that prime real estate. What I would love to see is two or three story buildings with...

Dixon, have you heard of planning? zoning? design review? The community DOES get to have a say on what is constructed in the center of their community. I shudder to think what we'd have without...

That entire property belongs to Ron Basso. The tractor place is only using part of it. I am guessing he is renting space from Basso. Most of the property is a falling down mess. That is not what...

It is very good news! The committee amended it to go back to opt-out instead of opt-in. There is a front page article in the peedee today. Not over yet though because the amended version will have...

TODAY is the day the Energy Committee meets! Calls today to Senator Padilla's office would be VERY timely. Please do it!

CALL FOR ARTISTS!
Village Building Convergence Project – Sept. 2014
McKinley Street Visual Art: Connecting Main Street and the Barlow

(NOTE: Implementation of this project is contingent upon...

IMPORTANT! PG&E tried this in a ballot measure which we defeated. NOW they have gone to the legislature! It’s crunch time for local clean energy in the California State Senate Energy Committee....

Nope - not rescheduled. I was there at the very end so can't really report, but it was way more polite and sedate than the last one.

Beautifully said Jonathan. Thank you!

Seems to me it would be pretty chicken shit to resign in the middle of a crisis with no one to replace them. Can we just come together as the strong smart community we are and work out a solution...

I would like to ask everyone to take a deep breath. These board members are our neighbors and have VOLUNTEERED - some for many years - to run our hospital and do their best to carry it through many...

Watch the county animal shelter - lots of great dogs coming through all the time:
https://www.sonoma-county.org/shelter/adoptables.htm

Also watch the Facebook page: ...

Craig - I assume you've checked the shelters. The County shelter has resources for helping to find lost pets. https://www.sonoma-county.org/shelter/strays.htm

This is also an excellent resource...

I agree something like this could have happened. Of course, it would be so much better if the suspect would give some sort of public explanation - that could curtail this frenzy perhaps. I am not...

FROM SEBASTOPOL TOMORROW:
Been wondering how you can help Stop CVS?

The Barlow, as it grows, will continue to attract locals and visitors who will be enticed to visit our local merchants to shop...

His aide Susan.

:gravapple: The Gravensteins are coming! :gravapple:

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Many of you may have noticed the Gravenstein banners facing northbound and southbound...

I guess it would say that we are in favor of and asking for relocation of the bear(s) so a safe, wilder area. Maybe if enough people signed, they would find the funds somehow. I suppose we could...

I'm still willing to set up a petition if someone will do the research on who to send it to. Perhaps that contct at Fish and Wildlife? Or was it fish and game?

I heard somewhere that they will not relocate bears any more. By start a movement, I meant a petition or something to lobby F&W to move the bear - NOT for us to do it ourself!! No, no, no - that...

Well I sure wish they could tranq him and move him (or her), but we don't want to see any peple harmed either as the bear gets closer and braver.... Should we start a movement to save the bear and...

Well - here is the PD's story about the goats and bear. Lots more detail and more suspicious that is was the bear.
Bear may have killed goats in Monte Rio
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Some info about bears and livestock. If possible, it might be instructive to share this with your neighbor and see if it fits:

Few black bears learn to kill livestock, but the behavior, once...

I would add to that list:
Keep chickens and pets tightly secured indoors at night.

Are those actual pictures of "our bear"? Wow! Who took them?
Marty

That's not very far for a bear to travel - at all.

Cool to see these bear pictures, but I really hope that people will keep any available food/compost/pet food/etc. away and also stay away from the bear. It would be a real shame if the guy had to be...

Here is the correct email address: Colin Doyle <[email protected]>

Here are the planning commissioners - they are waiting to hear from you!
Russ Pinto [email protected]
scot stegeman [email protected]
Yvette Williams Van Agellen ...

I want to remind everyone - show up at the Planning Commission where the decision on a permit for the Barlow Market will be made. That is where it counts. All of this is just talk - which is fine -...

There's an article on this topic in this week's Sonoma West Times and News....

The "live public forum" will be the planning commission hearing where the Barlow use permit's application will be heard. This is the very best place to express your opinions and hear from others as...

Oh sheesh - I will just delete anything I said about a lawsuit - I really don't want to get into this. I just want a solution for the market that works for everyone.

Barry - those are rather selective excerpts. There is much much more to the story than Paula's advocating a against a joint market. This came after a very long period of trying to work things out. ...

And here is what happened the last time a competing farm market tried to set up on the same day as the existing market. The application was withdrawn after a LOT of community uproar....

That is what we would all like, but the Barlow switched and withdrew their offer and told the existing market they are not welcome to move there as planned and promised. This is where all the...

Here is what the problem is - plain and simple. The Barlow reneged on their offer to move the existing market to the Barlow and decided to start one of their own instead. The current market with...

What I just don't understand is this: Why would the owners of the Barlow want to tarnish their exciting grand opening that most of the community is behind with such a divisive issue right off the...

I find this horrific, mean- spirited and far from community minded. I am really aghast that they are doing this and I hear they have written to all the Sunday market farmers trying to lure them away...

Cittaslow Sebastopol recruiting new Steering Committee Members

https://profile.ak.fbcdn.net/hprofile-ak-ash4/c14.14.173.173/s160x160/396971_407314352650394_1818918313_n.jpgDid you know that...

I would definitely post this on Facebook and let it go viral - someone will recognize this guy.

Really! I don't know what all the fuss is about. Edward made an innocent statement and got jumped all over. Can we try to just respond to people's ideas without criticizing their choice of words?...

What I really hope they will consider is to take a small part of all that money they were going to spend and upgrade their existing store and add a drive-though there if they must have one.

As good as it sounds, I'm feeling cautious - I don 't believe it will be that simple, but maybe I'm wrong..... Now I'm really sorry I missed the meeting!

I think it was really too bad that former Supervisor Carpenter was not allowed to speak. I don't know what order the speakers were chosen in, but he put in a card at 2:30 and I'm sure others that...

It was actually a very good example of democracy at work. And hats off to Supervisors Zane and Brown for being willing to change their minds. There will be some sort of advisory committee to bring...

After seeing all that is going on and talking with some of the key players, I am thinking that two markets might be a good thing but probably not on the same day - and NOT Saturday and sunday. Two...

Well it is already approved by the council, but two of the things that could happen are:

1) Armstrong refuses to come back with the requested modifications that were conditions of approval. They...