Many times I will buy their coffee for these people including paramedics and firefighters let alone thank them for what they do.

Maybe you should have bought them a coffee and struck up an honest conversation.
Stalking him on FB then drawing conclusions because he's a duck hunter is totally uncalled for.
Our little burg of...

Reheymann: Outside Andy's? Sounds like sheriff's deputies.

So cops shouldn't take coffee breaks? And they should be diminutive? And "weaponry" talk? Sounds like shop talk.

The Sherriff used...

I think it's good when police eat or drink coffee in with the public in public establishments. It integrates them into the neighborhood better. Last year I was eating in Chipolte in Santa Rosa,...

as George Carlin said about driving, anyone faster than me is a maniac, anyone slower is a moron.

I have as much or more skepticism about the way policing is done as anyone, but it's a bit silly...

“Over sized holstered gun” that is standard issue, not anything unusual. If you are not comfortable with guns you will usually have an issue with any gun at all. I know this first hand. OC, Taser,...

Check out the info on Mutz. He will be a great Sheriff!

In 2003 the Sebastopol City Council recognized that the old apple processing district in the northeast area of the city would eventually come under pressure to develop. The General Plan at the time...

This isn't SF or Oakland. We live in a rural area. Most people around here have to use cars to get around and go shopping. Even now during peak hours it's hard to find parking in the existing...

It is entirely possible that the EKG trace is as it is presented. BUT: an EKG is measuring very small electric currents in the body, and then you run feet of long cables back to the recorder? I would...

My problem is people using it as a merging lane. Correct behavior is to enter and STOP and then either make the left turn or if coming out of a driveway and turning left (i.e. Safeway), waiting in...

Why would a truck slam on its brakes because another vehicle pulled into an adjacent lane? Was someone going too fast or not clear where they were going?

The California Driver Handbook section on...

This video doesn't prove anything. The meter is powered by the incoming line, as is whatever communication method it uses. For all I know, it could be using 'carrier current' where a small signal is...

Without being privy to the details of the CVS actions that John says are deceitful it is difficult to make a decision about boycotting.. I like to think that a government's (the City's) rules and...

Magick,

I appreciate that many people, including yourself thought that they knew better than the Pellinis and CVS what they should do. However, that is not the same as being in their shoes. The...

There is a lot to this discussion that confuses me:

1) The old Pellini site was an eyesore of immense proportions. Anything would look better than what was there.
There was no landscaping and...

Thanks for your healing words, Richard. :fie:

Crappy tone, Beshiva? Re-read your posts, you are consistently the Wacco leader in that category.

Wowzeeee-- you Shepherd --and Jonathan are so full of hot air- maybe hot air is what makes leafblowers blow the leaves about?! i've had to read from both of you the holier than thou posts regarding...

You needn't get snarky with me, rossmen. I've won nothing. My favorite idea for the space was an artisan food company incubator that would assist local entrepreneurs and farmers. But I don't have the...

Hi Tommy, I'm not expressing an "attitude" -- I'm asking a simple question. Did anyone else step up with a vision, a plan and a budget? Great ideas abound. Can and do they get funded? Not without a...

I think Kitty's point was that both the CVS and lumber yard sites sat vacant for years, even decades, and no one came forward with viable proposals until CVS and the hotel. What you name as...

According to the article, this site has been defunct for more than a decade (other than the tractor repair shop, I assume). That's a long time. Did anyone else step up with a vision, a plan and a...

Sebastopol Planning Commission Public Hearing
on proposed HOTEL SEBASTOPOL


Tuesday, September 27, 2016Youth Annex, 425 Morris St.7:00 p.m.

More info here.

I am sorry to see this thread devolve so much. :tear:

This has been an interesting discussion, but it cut too close to the bone of some sacred cows (pun intended) around here which raised some...

Thanks, Barry. This is very helpful, as was the Core Project report. Something is bound to go into that key space. So if this project is rejected, something much worse could go in there. From what is...

Before taking a position on this hotel project I suggest you check out the developer's website.

Sonoma West also did a good article on it.

I support the project.

Here's the description...

I don't know of any "mega hotels" coming to Sebastopol. The one that was planned for the Barlow had 85 rooms. Last I heard that wasn't happening. I think it was a flood plain issue. There is...

While some of the comments on this thread are a bit off base and bordering on disrespectful, how to handle your kid's car insurance is a worthy topic and it's fine to continue the discussion on a...

Jeez. Is it too much to ask to have a breather from the rancor around this campaign? How about until September when the signs go back up.

There must be a Latin term for this kind of argument: take a good proposition, that benefits the vast majority of people, and construct a huge lengthy argument against it, from many angles, many...

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After reading your continuous barrage of hypocritical and venomous words directed at Lynda Hopkins, as far as I am concerned Ernie, you are like a "fly on the wall" that someone should smack.

Here is a link to the wine & distilled spirits manufacturers that supported Noreen Evans; Wine & Distilled Spirits Manufacturing. And, here is a link to the real estate interests that supported...

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Snore, Ernie...what are your comments about Evans? - who stated that she's always longed to live in Sebastopol, but bought a home in Far East Santa Rosa in the 1st District last year...

Interest, yes; support, so far not so much. I asked what I thought was a fairly simple question, capable of a fairly simple answer, and got back a wall of text and a blizzard of links, none of which...

I got one of these awhile ago from an "IRS" agent with an Indian accent. I pretended to be a frightened older person and immediately pleaded to give him a [fake] credit card number. The guy got...

I'm not up on this topic very much, but I do believe the Courthouse Square project has been in the works for quite a few years now, perhaps a couple decades, and there has been endless public...

Oh please......if Santa Rosa's courthouse square is the heart of the empire, we are all in trouble......

I know I will probably get stoned for this, but really, aren't there a lot more important causes than this to activate about? Yes the trees are beautiful, but they are not that old, not old growth,...

IMO, this is sadly becoming a tempest in a teapot. This is a WACCO idea!

It's a great idea to unify Courthouse Square. Santa Rosa has been wanting to do it for 30 years. Right now, it's two...

I like unifying Courthouse Square. With the removal of Santa Rosa Ave / Mendocino Ave going through the middle, and unifying the two halves, it will be an appealing place for people, instead of a...

While I agree with some of your editorial suggestions such as saying "Warning" on the poster vs. "Loose in Sebastopol" and perhaps the word "attack" instead of "rape", I respectfully disagree with...