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Meet Sonoma County’s new Poet Laureate

Sonoma County’s new Poet Laureate Claire Drucker, after her reading at Sebastopol Center for the Arts. (Photo by Kavya Krishnamurthy)

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E-bikes, eMotos, and the emotions they elicit

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Why is Ives Pool not open more hours for public swim in summer?

It’s summertime, and if you’ve got kids or grandkids, you’d probably like to spend time at Ives Pool, but then you find out about its limited hours. A reader wrote us wanting to know what’s up with that.

This issue with the pool has been...

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What's happening this week in Sebastopol?

Inset: Copperfield’s presents Phil Cousineau, author of The Wisdom of the Odyssey, on Friday, July 24, 7 pm to 8 pm, at Copperfield’s Books. Background: The new film of The Odyssey is also playing at Rialto Cinemas this week.


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Sunday RoundUp: When a butterfly stops by

Western Tiger Swallowtail (photo by Graton artist Lisa Beerntsen)

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Authors

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  • Dale Dougherty

    Dale is a Sebastopol resident of over 30 years. He is editor and publisher of Make: Magazine, a DIY Tech quarterly.

  • Rollie Atkinson

    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.

  • Laura Hagar Rush

    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.

  • Mark Fernquest

    Mark Fernquest lives and dreams in Northern California. He imagines he is a writer.

  • Dewey Watson

    Retired lawyer. Graton columnist for Sonoma Gazette. Thanks to Sebastopol Times for giving us local news.

  • Kavya Krishnamurthy

    Poet painter recent college grad. Intern for the Sebastopol Times.

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