The people in the beds in the hospital are our neighbors and friends, no matter what the name and who owns it.

I hope some of you stop by the hospital one of these days. Yes it is a hospital. Yes there are patients in beds, doctors being doctors, and nurses giving good care, labs, an Urgent Care Center, a...

The PDHCD does plenty of work supporting the health of our community. I have worked at the hospital in its many iterations, and served on one of the PDHCD committees promoting services for...

great idea Barry to ask people to post when a local business steps up and donates to the community.

I will never shop there and will encourage my friends and contacts to do the same.

Lots of good reasons to vote FOR Noreen, but even if there weren't, the quantity and venal quality of Linda's mailers would turn me away. I know she is a good human being who is a good farmer, but...

Im just so sickened by the vitriol in Linda's mailers, even tho in theory she did not sponsor them but Erik K did.
Putting Elizabeth Warren on the front page of one of them seemed so.....Trumpian. ...

As a long time employee of both Palm Drive and Sonoma West I cannot stress strongly enough why we need a hospital and an emergency room in Sebastopol. Those who work to close the hospital must come...

To everyone who finds this disturbing - if we all support apple farmers, buy their products, pay a fair price for them, eat lots of them in season, make apple sauce for the winter, come to the Free...

what happens to the people who can't afford it?

Lets all practice calling it apple country, instead of wine country. maybe if everybody......

there is no champion of Palm Drive Hospital more committed than Dr. Richard Powers. He is the humane face of medicine, especially community medicine. He has been involved in planning for the future...

Please lets stand up for Redwood Empire rather than Wine Country. Grapes, and wine, come and go. Redwoods are here forever.

I agree with much of what you say about our community, and Grapes of WRath, but in this case, the Barlow fire was started accidentally by a welder, and the Frezelle Enos fire was started by a person...

you make some good points here. Some people are waking up, but orchard conversions have been fast and furious for at least 10 years. Your local Slow Food chapter has been working to help people...

It happens to be not true that the Gleason Ranch folks were terminated from the markets in an act of retaliation. The termination was a decision by the Board, not by Paula, and the reasons were many...

It happens to be not true that the Gleason Ranch folks were terminated from the markets in an act of retaliation. The termination was a decision by the Board, not by Paula, and the reasons were many...

Most members of the community and vendors at the Sebastopol market in the plaza who weighed in on this said they preferred the plaza. THEY think the plaza is the better space.

more news...the Barlow is requesting 100 vendors...the Sebastopol Farm market has about 50. how much money could each of 150 farmers selling on a Sunday make? The Sebastopol Farm market works hard...

I don't want to see a farmers market at The Barlow. I definitely don't want to see one that competes with the original farmers market on the Plaza.

The Barlow management has applied for a permit to have a competing Sunday farmers market. we have talked about this before on WACCO and there was alot of feeling expressed that we should stay at the...

Here is a piece of INFORMATION about how the farmers market works, at least under Paula Downing. Yes there is a wait list, but the job of "curating" the market involves trying to keep a balance of...

This thread is really unbearably mean spirited. I personally think that Lizzysweet and Cinda are not following the guidelines of waccobb by continuing like this . Barry?.

It is my iunderstanding that the Sunday Farmers Market was recently told they were not welcome at the Barlow in their current incarnation. The Barlow said they are looking for a more "professional"...

we have the best farmers market already...in the plaza. it is carefully curated by Paula Downing to afford all the farmer participants an opportunity to make some money, by keeping a balance of...

doing good work with your profits is not the issue. helping SMALL farmers stay in business is. Some of us do not ascribe to the belief that competition and capitalism are the best models. ...

Neil...this is so well written and dispassionate. I hope you will submit it to the Press Democrat. there are so many lies and misconceptions on the "other" side. We and the public need to know...

The arguement that there are too many crafters is just bogus. Paula works to keep the market full, and there are times in the season where there is more, or less, produce that is ripe. during those...