Although our last blog featured "Friends of Lafferty Park," as a volunteer group that has made a difference, we failed to identify a few of the volunteers who helped their cause: Bill Kortum, Larry Modell, and Matt Maguire. There are many additional non-profit organizations and individuals that have initiated projects [...]
For the past few weeks, I've been sitting on the sidelines, blogging-wise; but, now that the football season is over, it's time to become active, as a Petaluma blogger. Today's post will start a new theme: Volunteerism. The value of community volunteers entered my mind, following the series of newspaper [...]
Yesterday’s Press Democrat printed a great article about local examples of how small towns in Sonoma County celebrate our nation’s independence. Unfortunately, missing from the description of six other towns; Petaluma – my favorite river town – was missing. For the record, here is the story of our “Bell Ringing” [...]
When The Trio (Me, Myself & I) uses “Oh no! Not again …” for the title of a blog, it usually means another earthquake has happened nearby our favorite river town. However, no - not this time. It’s only 2 a.m. and Me wakes up worrying about paying the monthly [...]
The City of Petaluma has more parks than the six identified in my blog dated 7-13-08. Lucy Kortum, a researcher at the Petaluma Historical Museum & Library sent in more names to share, and the Chamber of Commerce lists 34 of the 40 parks maintained by the Parks Division throughout [...]
EDITOR: In response to the issue that a concerned citizen raised on Dec. 8 in her "Letter to the Editor" titled, Warning needed, may I offer a suggestion. Although law enforcement officers and other municipal safety officials may not always do what we, as citizens, might expect under certain circumstances; [...]
This morning, while I was surfing the Internet, I came across a couple of my earlier bogs that caused the "old gray matter" to percolate. One blog dated 8-8-07 was titled, Old wine in a new bottle - or... is it 'new wine in an old bottle?' It starts off [...]
This blog will be posted while Me, Myself & I are at today's "Petaluma Going Green Expo." We're on a panel of speakers, who each have five minutes to showcase a local grassroots movement that helps Petalumans "make connections, build community, and add value to our quality of life." Which [...]
Hammerhead slept in until 6:15, this morning, but leaped out of bed with an idea for a symbol to represent PetalumaNET (2.0), so he woke up Eagle-Eyes and asked, "What do you think about this? It's a STOOL. Yup, another acronym has been created and Eagle-Eyes, thought it would get [...]
A local blogger, the Squeaky Wheel, founder of PINS (Petaluma Informed Neighbors), was lamenting the fact that one of his blogging sites was not being responsive to his need for additional information so that he might improve the readership coverage of his blog that was devoted to making the public [...]