Feature · The Fire Within: Jennifer Gray Thompson Has a Passion for Community Recovery by Jean Saylor Doppenberg· May 23, 2023 1:18 am·You might say that Jennifer Gray Thompson, a Sonoma resident helping communities rebuild after life-changing wildfires and megafires, was destined…
Feature · The Many Visions of SDC by Jean Saylor Doppenberg· April 26, 2023 2:00 pm·Perhaps no proposed housing and development project in Sonoma County has necessitated so much scrutiny and planning––while at the same…
Feature · An American Story: 19th Century Chinese Laborers by Jean Saylor Doppenberg· March 12, 2023 3:23 pm·Before this year ends, a colorful new structure is scheduled to break ground in Sonoma’s historic Depot Park to honor…
Feature · Gender Spectrum and the Modern Workplace by Jean Saylor Doppenberg· February 8, 2023 3:19 pm·When a large engineering firm established its first employee resource group, for LGBTQIA+ employees, the group members asked to be…
Feature · YIMBY: Advocating for Affordable Housing by Jean Saylor Doppenberg· December 7, 2022 5:27 pm·Jordan Carbajal’s life is an immigrant’s success story: a 4-year-old who speaks no English leaves his home in Peru to…
Feature · Santa Rosa’s New Approach to Crisis Response by Jean Saylor Doppenberg· December 7, 2022 2:01 pm·The very first call for the services of the new inRESPONSE mental health mobile team, which hit the streets of…
Feature · Baking a Legacy by Jean Saylor Doppenberg· November 15, 2022 11:48 am·Bread has been an important and ubiquitous food staple for thousands of years. You likely can’t remember not having bread…
Feature · Five Years Later by Jean Saylor Doppenberg· October 12, 2022 11:58 am·What a long, strange trip it’s been. Five years ago the North Bay was devastated by wildfires that destroyed thousands…
Feature · In Search of Gold by Jean Saylor Doppenberg· August 2, 2022 8:00 am·Despite a tight local labor market and more jobs available than there are people to fill them, some staffing firms…
Feature · Saving Every Precious Drop by Jean Saylor Doppenberg· July 14, 2022 7:29 pm·California was always part of the Wild West from way back, says Chiatri de Laguna Farm owner Wendy Krupnick, who…