This just truly disturbs me. No long established business... with three locations...should have to be begging for money to move forward.

But... I think this pretty well sums up the reality of...

I have also brought a homeless man into my space, and although he wasn't on meth or any other heavy drug, he began to gaslight me, and tell me he was my "spiritual teacher". It took me a year to get...

I want to add weight to this opinion. You are absolutely right! I tried to help three homeless people recently and I' m still paying for that decision. These were not people on the trail. They had...

Dear Friends and Neighbors,

Your coast needs you now. The County is rushing through the Updated Local Coastal Plan for approval vote at the end of the month. This is a long document to review so...

https://www.waccobb.net/forums/waccobb/keep90days/2019-08-02_13-47-41.pngThe Rialto’s showing of a full length full live Grateful Dead concert sold out their largest auditorium! It was a standing...

Wow. I don't know Jeff Bezos well enough to know whether he is a "massive conservative" but the previous owner was a Big Oil friendly libertarian and that didn't stop Sebastapolians from shopping in...

Hello friends. I use this intersection quite a bit, I know how intense it is already. I sent a message to the people linked below and they responded politely in one day. I encourage you to do the...

Hi Folks,

46702I want to make sure people are aware that there is a proposal afoot to wipe out the businesses at the corner of 116 and Stony Point including Cali-Kind Tye-dye and the Pond & Garden...

Forget about 5G, wireless radiation, chemtrails, vaccines, and every other alarming health threat described by some perfectly reliable YouTube video. The very certain threat to your well being that...

In Defense Of Those Who Harbor Terrible Ideas At Tax Time



:whip:It must have seemed like a good idea at the time.
Like so many others. Sleeping with that guy.
Not checking the address....

There is no reason why commercial water users should pay less than than private citizens. Private parties should get a break. Citizens should pay less. Politicians often defer commercial...

I don't shop at CVS in Sebastopol or elsewhere, except as a last option. Our local Rite Aid has improved their array of merchandise, perhaps in response to the CVS' new store downtown. If TJ's moved...

Yes, I agree. Horrible idea to put this massive mess in little Graton. Let's let the supervisors know we don't want it there.

Lilith

“This kind of development belongs in commercial areas along transportation corridors where security gates, lights and kiosks are a regular occurrence, not on the edge of a village adjacent to...

Interesting video for those of us, like myself, not knowledgeable on this topic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTlLyhkpeI8

Some states allow composting toilets instead of a sewer/septic,...

Here's Vaughn campaign handout. Please excuse the stains that are on my copy.

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Following is an email from my friend Philip R., who used to live full-time in Sebastopol, married a Cuban woman, and now lives mainly there. He is an excellent film-maker, musician, and host to...

I agree with this PD letter about the dangers of the bloated wine industry in our beloved county. With some important exceptions, especially among the few truly organic vineyards, they consume most...

The following letter was published in the PD on Friday 9/7 and in my opinion, raises legitimate concerns as to the Wine Industry's negative effect on our county:

Defining sustainable
EDITOR:...

Enough is enough!

Preserve Rural Sonoma County needs your help with our efforts to lobby the Board of Supervisors to stop approving more and more winery development, while delaying the Winery...

43382I confess that CVS is not as bad as feared, thanks to our city council's design changes (thank's in particular to Councilmember John Eder in particular). I still resent CVS's strong-armed and...

Dear Community : I am forwarding this and hoping to make more people aware of the issue and our opportunity to voice opinions to our planning commission. If you don't know why this important, please...

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https://sonomacountygroundwater.org/srp/

https://sonomacountygroundwater.org/

Here are the basins. Looks like you...

This is OUTRAGEOUS!!! Does anyone know if you live outside the 3 basins in question - Santa Rosa Plain, Petaluma Valley and Sonoma Valley -- will you be taxed?

I could not tell from the website if...

If you are a "de minimis" user of well water for your residence expect to be paying a new fee on your property tax bill. And expect it to go to the benefit of big ag, the wine industry and Sonoma...

Regarding the rebuilding of Coffey Park:

- Shirley Zane, Sonoma Co Supervisor, was quoted in the SF Chronicle: "the rebuilt neighborhood should include 'grocery stores, dog parks, smarter senior...

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Nudist mecca Harbin Hot Springs still rebuilding after Valley Fire, two years later

A look at how businesses rebuild, and...

Power measured at about 2 meters were about -30 dBm as I recall, but I don't have the number for antenna efficiency so hard to convert that directly to transmitter power; you need the effective area...

Honestly, I would guess the smart meter in the woods would radiate more power than in the city since there are few other smart meters near; so I would conclude that most people would experience less...

so do you support this because you are a contractor? or a local merchant? I do not support it because I live the "atmosphere"of the town the gentle quiet of what at least used to be a funky country...

I hear you. However, I would actually like to shop in the town I live in. I don't think that's unreasonable. I pretty much end up avoiding the traffic, or can't find a parking spot close enough to go...

I completely disagree with your low opinion of Concilman Slayter and our elected officials. I think our City government did absolutely the right thing and represented their citizens (us) well in the...

Since parking seems to be your biggest issue, I'm guessing you live outside of town and rely on your car to get here. I live downtown, two blocks from Pine Grove and one block off that "unhealthy"...

No! That's what the fuss is about.
Here is their documented herbicide and pesticide applications:

40564See more info here.

Wine and Water Watch (www.winewaterwatch.org) has a list of organic and other vineyards that it recommends, though not a map, on its website.

For more information on the threats to our coast and the Freestone neighborhood by this proposal, you can go to the websites of Wine and Water Watch (www.winewaterwatch.org) and Preserve Rural Sonoma...

(This applies to the T-Mobile One plans, not other T-Mobile plans (such as pre-paid).)

https://www.WaccoBB.net/forums/waccobb/keep90days/2017-03-07_17-11-43.pngI use T-Mobile cell service. I went...

https://www.WaccoBB.net/forums/waccobb/keep90days/2017-03-04_17-45-58.pngI've been a big fan of this bakery since it opened. Just an alert to others who also like it or those who haven't tried it....

I asked myself the same question when I read the ballot measure. Do wine grape growers have to pay a similar tax in unincorporated Sonoma County. Do raisers of meat cattle? If not, why tax cannibis...

Very good point. As a general contractor I know I never had to have a business license to operate in the County. It took me years after moving away from Berkeley to get the city to quit harassing me...

No actually, most started experiencing a high like all children do- spinning, being daredevils on their bikes, skateboards, etc... Then sugar. Then caffeine....

In terms of "drugs" alcohol and...

I agree w/rossmen; the hotel will be much taller and make more of an impact than we think. Hello, $300- 600 are rich people hotel rooms! I worked on the Plaza in Sonoma in the '80's when it was still...

You clearly know nothing of the history of CVS forcing their way in and bullying our city council. I guess you don't know that our city spent $336,000 to try and stop them from moving there. It's not...

The parking lot is a public lot (owned by CVS); it was a condition of approval- no different from, say, the City-owned lots next to Hopmonk or the Rialto. Do we reserve the spaces closest to Hopmonk...

Fences are the bane of wildlife. In the 25 years I've lived just outside of Sebastopol, not only have most of the apple orchards been cut down, replaced by vineyards, but ugly, industrial-strength...

There are far more deer at my place on the outskirts of Graton then there were 30 years ago. This is because the grape growers have fenced off large areas and because the apple growers used to shoot...

Definitely want to watch out for those deer colonizers, they just come in cut down forests, poison the land with pesticides, create mono-cultures for themselves, yep, deers needs are definitely...

I believe the phrase is "and some, I assume, are good people".

Received from a friend today...

Dear Red States:

We're ticked off at the way you've treated California and we've decided we're leaving. We intend to form our own country and we're taking the...

I’m all for the Cal-exit movement. Don’t think it will happen but you got my vote.

If you consider how badly we get are underrepresented compared to those smaller states it is staggering and means...