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6 days ago | 
sebastopoltimes.com | Dale Dougherty |Laura Hagar Rush
Sebastopol Times had a booth at the Rotary Centennial Celebration last Sunday, which was great fun. Huge, free, fantastic cake by Patisserie Angelica. Beautiful weather, great music all day and a nice turnout. Here’s to another 100 years!Octavio Leal, with the band “Senior Discount”, wore what he called his “Halloween Mariachi” outfit at the Rotary Centennial.
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1 week ago | 
sebastopoltimes.com | Dale Dougherty
This is the fifth and final part of a series that looks at the shift to remote work in Sebastopol and West County, what might be considered a hidden-away-at-home workforce. WFH is changing where and how people work today, offering a good living in a good place to live and work. Catch up:Although remote work is not for everyone, those who work from home prefer it for a number of reasons. Flexibility and autonomy seem to be at the top of the list.
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1 week ago | 
sebastopoltimes.com | Dale Dougherty |Laura Hagar Rush
On a beautiful but windy Memorial Day, VFW Gold Ridge Post 3919 held a moving ceremony at Sebastopol Memorial Lawn. The main road into the cemetery was lined with dozens of large American flags, all fluttering in the wind, while overhead a P-51 plane came in north to south and circled back for one more flyover. The crowd of maybe 50 who were gathered for the ceremony anticipated the arrival of the plane, which came as a burst of sound but was gone almost too quickly to see.
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1 week ago | 
sebastopoltimes.com | Laura Hagar Rush |Dale Dougherty
A student at the SRJC who said photography is a hobby of his, Jacob Banks recently spent time photographing the long-tail weasels at Ragle Regional Park in Sebastopol, and he posted them on NextDoor. We got permission from Jacob to post some of his great photos here. Jacob wrote: “The weasels are so entertaining to watch. I stayed for hours at Ragle watching them jump, play and pop out of their burrows.
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2 weeks ago | 
sebastopoltimes.com | Dale Dougherty
Residents in Forestville, Monte Rio, Camp Meeker, and Occidental now have a powerful new opportunity to reduce their wildfire risk thanks to a $1.1 million grant awarded to Safer West County and Fire Safe Sonoma by CAL FIRE. The three-year grant is designed to boost community engagement in wildfire risk reduction across West County. The funding supports three key programs:A rebate program to incentivize defensible space work around homes.
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2 weeks ago | 
sebastopoltimes.com | Dale Dougherty
This is the fourth of a five-part series that looks at the shift to remote work in Sebastopol and West County, what might be considered a hidden-away-at-home workforce. WFH is changing where and how people work today, offering a good living in a good place to live and work. Catch up:While some work from home 100% of the time, others are hybrid workers, where they work in an office one or more days a week.
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2 weeks ago | 
sebastopoltimes.com | Laura Hagar Rush |Dale Dougherty
Robin Greenfield as nature made him. Wandering environmentalist and accidental mystic Robin Greenfield is back in Sebastopol briefly. He will be making an appearance tonight, Sunday, May 17, at the helipad behind the old Palm Drive hospital at 6700 Palm Ave, from 6 pm to 8 pm. After his 1,625-mile walk down the coast from the Canadian border to Los Angeles, which we wrote about in this Nov. 2024 article, he gave away all his possessions, including his clothes.
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3 weeks ago | 
sebastopoltimes.com | Dale Dougherty
Three Analy teachers who are retiring at the end of the school year were acknowledged at last Wednesday’s WSCUHSD meeting, kicking off a number of near-year-end recognitions. Ellen Houlemard, social science at Analy for 13 yearsKate Oitzinger, science teacher for 16 years at Analy, El Molino and Laguna HS)Julie Kellogg, math teacher for 7 years at AnalyFrom left to right, Ellen Houlemard, Analy Principal Chuck Wade, Kate Oitzinger, Julie Kellogg.
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3 weeks ago | 
sebastopoltimes.com | Dale Dougherty
This is the third of a five-part series that looks at the shift to remote work in Sebastopol and West County, what might be considered a hidden-away-at-home workforce. WFH is changing where and how people work today, offering a good living in a good place to live and work. Catch up on Part 1: Work from where you want to live and Part 2 -Zooming In.The work-at-home mom was a common stereotype of the teleworker who sought the flexibility to work around her kids’ schedules.
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4 weeks ago | 
sebastopoltimes.com | Dale Dougherty
The protest period ended and LAFCO sealed the deal on the annexation of Sebastopol Fire into the Gold Ridge Fire Protection District on Wednesday, May 7. The Sonoma County Local Agency Formation Commission (LAFCO) conducted a public hearing on Wednesday, May 7, to receive testimony from interested parties and to conclude the formal protest period for the proposed reorganization of Sebastopol’s Fire Department by the Gold Ridge Fire Protection District.
