Letter from the Editor
David Bolling: Welcome Weed Whackers and Welcome Onboard Steven Serafini
The relentless rain that is pebbling the skylight over my Glen Ellen desk is both a welcome relief and an annoying distraction. A relief because,…
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Public Citizen
Larry Barnett: Befriending Sadness
For most of my adult life I avoided sadness. I didn’t cry much and tried to stay positive, and when trouble did arise, I’d adopt…
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Food and Wine
Kathleen Hill: New Smash, Goodbye Sonoma Eats and Starling, Easter Specials and the Shame of César Chávez
Smash restaurant to open on Sonoma Plaza The Glen Ellen Star–Stella team will open their new Smash restaurant on the ground floor of Taub Family…
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Snark Infested Waters
Bob Edwards: Drone Over Sonoma
It happened in broad daylight on Good Friday afternoon. Two, maybe four hundred feet above First Street East in Sonoma. A drone. Yep. Hovering. Reconnoitering…
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As I See It
Will Shonbrun: Jarvis And Me II
(Editor’s note: This is the second of two reports on death row inmate Jarvis Masters, a practicing Buddhist convicted of producing a weapon used to…
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Cartoons by Hilary
Cartoon by Hilary: “And have you been voting?”
Hilary Campbell is a New Yorker magazine cartoonist, humorist, and book author who just happens to have been born and raised in Sonoma.
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What's Up With That?
Katy Byrne: Are We Diss–Associating?
Most of us have some experience of removing ourselves from reality. Maybe we lose track of time while immersed in a project. Sometimes we can’t…
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Community Voices
John Staley: A Decade Without Decadence
By John Staley Sobriety is a pain in the ass – inconvenient in other words. When I decided to quit drinking ten years ago, I…
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Voices of the New Majority
Loretta Carpio Carr: Giving of Your Heart, One-by-one
Along with the rising cost of gasoline, insurance, groceries, water, gas and electricity, and taxes, I have noticed the increase in ticket costs to attend…
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Rude Awakenings
Catherine Sevenau: Through Any Given Door – A Family Memoir Prologue
My brother Larry thought Mom was a good mother, but he had a different childhood than we did. My sisters were convinced otherwise: Carleen complained…
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Sonoma Farm Scene
Seth Dolinsky: Friday Farmers Market – Local Food Central
Sonoma’s Friday Farmers market – officially the Sonoma Valley Certified Farmer’s Market (SCVFM) – has been the Valley’s main source for locally produced food for…
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Personal/Political
Josette Brose Eichar: Toxic People in Positions Of Power
I graduated from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design in 1979 at the age of 27, with dreams of becoming a famous fashion designer.…
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Wild Valley
Helen-Teri Shore: Burn Piles or Critter Condos?
What To Do with Burn Piles? Lately I’ve seen burn piles of oak limbs, bay branches, manzanita and tangled grass and leaves in parks and…
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