The Petaluma Community Relations Council (PCRC) is hosting the first of two debates amongst the candidates for Petaluma City Council, at 5:30 pm on Tuesday, September 15, 2020. According to a PCRC press release, this event will “focus on the General Plan, including Climate and Equity in Planning; and Housing, including Affordable Housing, Planning, and…
If you’re within reach of downtown Petaluma there’s still time to make it down to Walnut Park and join that wonderful antiracist contingent of the Petaluma citizenry that’s taking to the streets again.
Notice of this important meeting regarding the November 27, 2019 killing of Petaluma resident David Ward by Sonoma County sheriff’s deputies just arrived from Santa Rosa activist and community organizer Susan Lamont, former director of the Peace and Justice Center of Sonoma County. Susan’s message is below, followed by the public notice from the county.…
According to an urgent message we received from Petaluma Mayor Teresa Barrett, the locale to welcome the Army Corps of Engineers to Petaluma and present them with our Dredge Pledge petitions has been changed “due to the low tide and the high silt” to the Petaluma Yacht Club at the end of C Street, Friday,…
It remains a shock to many of us that it is still possible to build a new gasoline station in 2019, when we really should have already stopped burning the stuff if we wish for humanity and other living creatures to survive on Planet Earth. That we would allow one to be constructed across the…
In news that was generally overlooked amidst the 24/7 coverage of President Trump’s government shutdown, over 600 environmental groups published an open letter on January 10 called on the 116th Congress for “visionary and affirmative legislation action” to address the looming climate emergency now. The organizers of the letter, Friends of the Earth (FOE), called for…
The Drawdown Downtown at Petaluma’s Bank Hub – Join the Local Response to the Climate Emergency, February 13 at the Bank Hub It requires some effort to miss the bad news about human-induced climate emergency we face completely. Whether it’s roads melting and “biblical-scale” mass animal deaths in the latest Australian heat wave; the news that the…
Today’s Women’s March/Marcha de Mujeres follows the Butter and Egg Days parade route, beginning at Walnut Park. Gather at 11 am, begin the march around 12:30. Hope to see you there. – RR
Though we were unable to spend much time covering the 2018 Petaluma election campaign, we do feel obliged to touch upon it briefly before moving on to the 2020 electoral cycle already underway. It was, after all, the end of a significant era in Petaluma politics and culture, and the birth of an exciting new…
