Sebastopol Times
Dale Dougherty, Dewey Watson, Laura Hagar Rush, Julie Zigoris, Mark Fernquest, G. C. Rush, Rollie AtkinsonAn independent publication with local news and views of Sebastopol, CA, and parts of West Sonoma County
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Daily |
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| Issues | 1834 | Founded | 5 years ago | Last Issue | 41 hours ago |
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Seven surprises locally in this election
Left, the women who just won positions on the Gold Ridge Fire Protection District Board. Top right: Jill McLewis is out in Sebastopol. Bottom right: Lewis Buchner reelected to the high school board—the mystery is the more than 500 votes tha...
Sandra Maurer, James Woodruff and Ian Hoff elected to Sebastopol City Council
Incumbent Sandra Maurer (center) and newcomers James Woodruff (left) and Ian Hoff (right) have been elected to Sebastopol’s City Council. Maurer, the current vice mayor, will become mayor of Sebastopol for the next year.
UPDATE: The vote c...
UPDATED 11/5/26 at 3 pm: Election results for Sebastopol/West County
People in cars line up to drop off their ballots. Tom Bayless, standing by the drop box in the black jacket, helps voters put their ballots in the very full box. It was so packed with ballots by late afternoon that Bayless had to call the R...
Sebastopol woke up to vile anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant graffiti in multiple spots around town
Graffiti was still visible—though we blurred it out for the photo—on an office building along High Street late this afternoon. (Photo by Laura Hagar Rush)
Sebastopol woke up this morning to find several buildings around town defaced with b...
Forestville’s new little ‘free stand’ is open every Sunday
Cypress Clark at her free stand in downtown Forestville. (Photo by Michelle Lester)
Cypress Clark has done many things in her life — she repaired rifle scopes for her father’s gun company, built an off-the-grid home by hand in Potter Valle...
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Authors
The writers behind this newsletter.
Dale is a Sebastopol resident of over 30 years. He is editor and publisher of Make: Magazine, a DIY Tech quarterly.
Retired lawyer. Graton columnist for Sonoma Gazette. Thanks to Sebastopol Times for giving us local news.
Co-owner, editor and reporter for the Sebastopol Times. Former editor of North Bay Biz and the West County newspaper, Sonoma West Times and News.
San Francisco arts reporter, Occidental correspondent for the Sebastopol Times. Learn more about me and my work at www.juliezigoris.com.
Mark Fernquest lives and dreams in Northern California. He imagines he is a writer.
G. C. Rush is an artist and writer living in Los Angeles.
I am a veteran newspaper journalist, now retired (mostly) and committing my writing skills to rambling topics ranging from the small moments of ordinary life to the bigger elusive truths of our world. We still focus on facts more than the politics.
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