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 Varda for setting up NBayOnline! It is fairly easy to download a mailing list from one group and add it to another. The existing WACCOBB mailing list could be transferred to NBayOnline....

Through Barry and wacco, I too made my first viable connections with west county while still living in L.A., planning a relocation. Oh dear! I am just finding out! Barry, thank you immensely for...

Extremely sad to be losing this important community resource. Barry, wishing you well in whatever the coming months and years bring - I hope you write a BOOK about your experience with...

Dear Barry,
You have made an immense contribution to our community. Wacco will be sorely missed. Where else could be found a web-based community site run by a generous person with good judgement? ...

I have had the great pleasure of meeting Barry at community picnics that he hosted for Wacco members and businesses that wanted to share their skills with members of the community. We shared a...

Thank you, Barry, for Waccobb. I will miss it. Great work.

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I’m sure I speak for many here when I say more information would help. A pic to put a face to the name? What does he grow and sell?

The only results I get searching is for a Sothebys real estate...

Tonight I read two commentaries by immigrant writers who are very alarmed by recent trends in the United States. They claim to have been where we are now, and both are trying to shake us awake. An...

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Heat, wildfires and red skies:
The week climate change seized the national spotlight
MARY CALLAHAN
THE PRESS DEMOCRAT...

DEFENDING OUR ELECTION

Donald Trump only won the 2016 election by cheating. That’s the only way he’ll win this one, but he, Russia, and others are hard at work. Join us for our September General...

You can drop your mail-in ballots in a mail box or at these locations:

Secure Ballot Drop-Box Locations


Bodega Bay Fire Station, 510 Highway 1, Bodega Bay
Cloverdale Veterans Memorial...

Shepherd,

While I don't agree with some of your views, sadly, I agree with this one. We have become a nation of spoiled children throwing fits to get things our way. Putting aside the divide...

Thank you for sharing, Shepherd.

The US backed coup in Chile ushered in a fascist, military dictatorship that perpetrated the genocide of at least 30,000 human beings. Some estimates of the number...

This is a letter I sent to all the members of the Board of Governors of the USPS.
They are a group of wealthy old white men who do not like be be in the midst of a huge controversy.
Perhaps...

Lynda Hopkins is providing excellent information about the fires on her Facebook page

Evacuation Map

Wind Map

Stay Safe!

Wacco needs some intelligent subscribers... not know nothing hotheads.

Yes, it was a really vibrant little rally. Nice video, thanks. We'll be back on Sat. at 11 this time.

Lilith

PS. Hope all WACCOS are safe from the fires.

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By Stephen Barncard

The News

The big country beat the little country up
like a schoolyard bully,
so an even bigger country stepped in
and knocked it on its ass to make it nice,
which reminds me of my Uncle Bob’s...

Initiation Song from the Finders' Lodge


Please bring strange things.
Please come bringing new things.
Let very old things come into your hands.
Let what you do not know come into your eyes....

We Have Come to Be Danced


We have come to be danced
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLzsaEwZ9tY&t=34s
not the pretty dance
not the pretty pretty, pick me, pick me dance
but the claw our way...

Please help spread the word—with all the canceled celebrations for Aug. 26, Sonoma County NOW is sending out this suggestion to everyone in our country, for something we can all do! Please forward to...

What happened to the Black Lives Matter signs on the fence by the plaza?

I was pretty confident I wouldn't live to see the end of the world. I may have to revise that assessment.

Those of us who live in safely Democratic districts can have an impact by working with groups like Flip The West (www.Flipthewest.com) and Vote Forward (https://votefwd.org/) to write postcards,...

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...

Consider:

a) Our incompetent leader who may see reelection this Fall;
b) The politically-disguised mob rule sweeping our cities, imposing their narrow, violent anarchy on the rest of us;
c)...

the Sonoma County Library has a huge volume of DVDs and as a library card holder, you can order and arrange for curbside delivery.--and free.

I appreciate all them for stepping up in these difficult times!

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Sebastopol’s council race taking shape
By Rollie Atkinson, Sonoma West Staff Jul 20, 2020

Incumbents Hinton, Carnacchi...

It was considered the best photo of this century. A lioness and her cub were crossing the savannah but the heat was excessive and the cub was in great difficulty walking. An elephant realized that...

Congregation Ner Shalom is a reconstructionist synagogue in Cotati. Very progressive, LGBTQ friendly, etc. We just put in 3 garden beds in the back. All of our services have moved online.

We have...

2nd & 4th Tuesdays through October 27th, 5-5:45pm:

Join us for the Home Gardeners Produce Exchange/Donation at the Sebastopol Grange. We’ll meet in the parking lot of the Sebastopol Grange and...

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A Letter on Justice and Open Debate
July 7, 2020

Our cultural institutions are facing a moment of trial. Powerful...

At last a psychologist, Trump's niece Mary, is commenting on Trump. She has first hand knowledge of Donald Trump's childhood emotional abuse. I have been calling attention for over a year to the...

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Very good news from the Lakota People's Law Project:

This morning, District Court Judge James Boasberg ordered the...

I remember when I was a child, someone molested me. I remember feeling his pubic hairs pressed against my face while he had his penis in my mouth. I am not responsible because I was somewhere between...

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Virtual Tip Jar and more are here.

Greetings Waccovian Tribe!:heart:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VT8KGgDo6TY
I'm writing to invite folks to research Marshall Rosenberg's method of communication, Non-Violent Compassionate...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6lweSaL6WU&feature=emb_logoDear Friends,

Check out our Virtual Peacetown Summer Concert Series and Community Celebration with music from two bands each week,...

Dear Friends:

At the moment there is major construction going on right in front of Many Rivers. I don't know how long it will last. It is part of major road repairs and storm drainage...

49576Hello Sonoma County,

I am in Kentucky for a few weeks. I got here and four days later George Floyd was murdered in MN. I am protesting in Lexington and Winchester.
This has been my...

I applaud you Woody, for taking on these terrible interests.

That corner of Llano & 12 is beautiful the way it is. It's places like that, that make this a beautiful place to live. Thank you...

Black Lives Matter
Family Friendly Protest
Sunday, June 7th at NOON

In Sebastopol at the intersection of Hwy. 116 and Bodega Hwy.

Bring signs, water, snacks, and wear masks.

This is a...

49548Hi All,

I hope you all doing well amid our trials and turmoil.

With all of the pressing needs for our community, and community security, one thing we don't need is another gas station...

2nd & 4th Tuesdays through October 27th, 5-5:45pm:

49528Join us for the Home Gardeners Produce Exchange/Donation at the Sebastopol Grange. We’ll meet in the parking lot of the Sebastopol Grange...

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