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Sebastopol CITY LIMITS Podcast
by Dale Dougherty
Conversations with folks from in and around Sebastopol, CA www.sebastopoltimes.com
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"Positive vibe" for start of Chuck Wade's second year as Analy principal
In this audio interview recorded last Friday, a day after school started, Chuck Wade, the principal of Analy High School, reflects on the first week of the new school year and changes from his first year as principal. He says that his job is both “exhilarating and exhausting” and one that Wade...
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A Remarkable Student
Karis Morasch is graduating from Analy High School in a couple of weeks. She is remarkable, high-achieving student who exceeds expectations, taking more AP classes than you knew existed, and an athlete who excels in track and field setting school records in the triple jump. She is also a…
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Investigating DEMA
This interview with Andrew Graham, a reporter for the Press Democrat, explores his year-long investigation into DEMA Management and Consulting, a for-profit company overseeing housing and medical services for the homeless in Sonoma County. DEMA’s contracts with the County’s Department of Health...
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Ken Berman's Industrial Whimsy
Sebastopol artist Ken Berman’s painting, “Temporary Restraining Order,” was selected for a new juried Open ‘23 show at SF's de Young Museum, which is open now and runs through the January 7th. Berman is a bit of an outlier among Sonoma County artists; he doesn’t do landscapes or seascapes.…
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Steve Fowler on the Luther Burbank Experiment Farm
Press Fest is this Saturday at the Luther Burbank Experiment Farm from 10 to 2pm. You’ll be able to use an antique apple press or a more modern electric one to make delicious juice from local apples. This week, I had the opportunity to talk to Steve Fowler who was curator at the Luther Burbank...
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The Local Art at Burning Man
Burning Man, the desert festival of radical inclusion, is also an amazing art festival by day and by night. My guests on this episode are two local art-makers, Deborah Colotti and Peter Loughran, who brought their own art to Burning Man this year. They returned home last week in good spirits…
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Revitalizing the Farmers Market - Barbara Hom
It’s easy to take the Sebastopol Farmers Market for granted after 30 years. For some, it’s a Sunday morning ritual to stroll through the market and get whatever is in season. Since the pandemic in particular, some might have gotten out of habit of going regularly to the Farmers Market. Barbara…
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Gravensteins Galore! The Apple Fair at 50
Sebastopol Times is a reader-supported publication. Please consider becoming a paid subscriber today. Carmen Snyder is the executive director of Sonoma County Farm Trails and the producer of the Gravenstein Apple Fair at Ragle Park this weekend (August 12 & 13). In my conversation with Carmen, we...
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Sara Gramm can't give up the kid part
Last spring, Sara Gramm was named the new superintendent of Sebastopol Union School District, which includes Park Side (TK-4th) and Brook Haven (5th-8th) schools. She succeeds Linda Irving, who had been in the role for ten years. Sara has been Assistant Superintendent since 2017. Sara grew up…
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Region. Reaches Three and Beyond
Region is celebrating its third birthday this month with a party from 2-4pm on Saturday July 22nd in their space at the Barlow. Region represents an innovative approach to wine tasting that promotes the best small, independent wineries in Sonoma County. They also now have three businesses: the…
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Old Cat: Poet Raphael Block
Sebastopol poet Raphael Block talks about his latest book of poetry, The Dreams We Share and shares several of his poems, including one about an old cat that sought out his attention. Described as an eco-poet, Block is moved by the Earth to speak in his own wonderful voice about what he sees and...
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Mr. Fix It
Steve Griffith is a former elementary school teacher who moved to Forestville about 10 years ago. Wanting to do an event for the West County community, he proposed to the Russian River Rotary Club that they sponsor a Fix-it Fair at the El Molino campus in Forestville. They agreed and the Fair…
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Restarting the Arts after Covid
My conversation with Kristen Madsen, director of Creative Sonoma, explores how arts organizations are adapting to life after the never-say-goodbye pandemic as well as the ongoing assessment of the role of the arts and arts education in our community. It continues a discussion about challenges...
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Alan Murakami's "The Uncle I Never Knew"
On Memorial Day for every year that Alan Murakami can remember, his family went down to the National Golden Gate Cemetery in San Bruno to lay flowers beside the grave of Peter Masuoka, his uncle. During Covid, Alan decided he had the time to write about his uncle and his Japanese-American family....
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What to do about Fentanyl?
Micah and Michelle Sawyer join me to talk about fentanyl, a drug that’s become more widely available illegally in Sonoma County and elsewhere across the country. The Sawyers lost their 22-year old son, Micah, Jr to a fentanyl overdose in 2019. Since then, they have been letting others know about...
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Small Circles of Folks
This episode, a conversation with David Mark-Raymond, covers a lot of ground. It’s about community service and the way that individuals get involved in service clubs like Rotary to do things locally and internationally. It’s about David’s personal story; he was once a teacher and then a realtor;...
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Learning from Ferndale
Janet Webb recently shared her experience of the 6.4 earthquake that happened on December 20th in Ferndale. Skip Jirrels, head of Sebastopol Ready, which organizes MYN, invited Janet who lives in Sebastopol to speak at a meeting of the MYN group about what happened and what lessons she learned…
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Working with the homeless over and over
Note (January 17): After publishing this interview, I learned that Jennifer will be leaving WCCS to take a job working in senior housing. In the summer of 2021, those who lived in RVs parked on Morris Street near the Barlow had become a problem that the city had to deal with. The conditions were...
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When you raise your right hand, it's truly humbling
Stephen Zollman joins Dale Dougherty to talk about running for City Council, getting the most votes in the election and then being sworn on December 6th. He talks about his work as a public defender in San Francisco and as a family law lawyer in Sonoma County. His decision to run for office was...
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How Cloud Brought Us Music Festivals
Music promoter and event producer Cloud Moss produced the Sebastopol Celtic Festival for 16 years (1995-2011) and the Kate Wolf Music Festival for 24 years (1996-2021). In this interview, we talk about: * how Brad became Cloud in the 1970’s because he brought news to a couple who lived on top of…
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Secular Bells
The Bell Clock is an art project by Jim Wheaton that sits, for now, in his backyard in downtown Sebastopol. Jim sought to create the same kind of feeling with sound that church bells create in town, but he wanted to hear bells playing secular music instead of sacred hymns. He wondered, though,...
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What Does An Election This Close Tell Us?
In this conversation, we talk to a local political consultant, Dennis Rosatti, about the election results, which are still coming in. Dennis lives in Sebastopol but did not work for any of the City Council or School Board candidates in Sebastopol in this year’s elections. He shares his…
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Woodworker & parent Lewis Buchner on running for WSCUHSD
Lewis Buchner is running in an uncontested race for trustee from the Fifth District of the West County Union High School District. The Fifth District represents the downtown area of Sebastopol. Originally from New Jersey, Lewis has lived in San Francisco and the East Bay but moved to Sebastopol...
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Straight Talk with Neysa Hinton
The Vice Mayor of the Sebastopol City Council, Neysa Hinton, speaks her mind even if it might not be completely politic to do so. She knows her own voice and it is a strong one. A working mother, who has worked in radio and now in an assisted living facility, she has juggled a career and her…
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Paul Fritz on Sebastopol's 3 Covid-era Parklets
Paul Fritz is an architect in Sebastopol and a member of the CORE Project. He has been an advocate for parklets as a way for people to reoccupy the public spaces devoted to cars. During Covid, parklets became an answer to indoor use restrictions and cities everywhere were approving them. Paul did…
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John Namkung and Lone Pine Ukrainian Family Aid
Since John Namkung retired as an administrator of special education services in Sonoma County, he’s been involved in several humanitarian missions abroad. Earlier this year, John went to Poland, weeks after the Russian invasion of Ukraine had created a flow of refugees out of Ukraine. He helped…
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The New Old and the Old Old
Joan Churchill, the Executive Director of the Sebastopol Area Senior Center, joins me to talk about the programs and activities for seniors as well as some of the issues that impact seniors in our community — even who identifies as a senior these days. Before we dive into the interview, I want to...
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Analy returns with new Superintendent
“Analy” returns this week as the name of the high school in Sebastopol that serves West County, which served as its name last year. Students will be back at Analy on Thursday. Chris Meredith is the new Superintendent for West Sonoma County Union High School District. Most recently, Chris was the...
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Inside Horizon Shine Village
Horizon Shine was put forth as a name by a homeless person on Morris Street and everyone in the planning session liked it. It’s now the name of the village community on North Gravenstein Avenue built by Sonoma Applied Village Services (SAVS) and opened in February 2022. About 20 RVs and 30...
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The New School Model for West County High
There’s a new school in town. Well, not exactly. It’s a set of ideas about how to improve the old school. While the Analy/El Molino merger, and the resulting battle over the name of West County High School, would make anyone wary of promising change within the education system, Nicole Wilkinson…
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What's in your trash?
Our guest on this episode is the Executive Director of Zero Waste Sonoma, Leslie Lukacs. The goal of Zero Waste Sonoma broadly speaking is to reduce the amount of waste generated in Sonoma County through programs to promote reuse, recycling and composting. Zero Waste Sonoma recently received a $1...
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