Staying here
It's been a while since I've blogged on this site. The reason is that my husband and I have spent the last few months deciding whether to...
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Joan Broughton
- May 26, 2021
- 1 min
A May Day
It's still May, but already we're experiencing vegetation fires here in Sonoma County. One fire, called the Grove Fire, has prompted...
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Joan Broughton
- May 21, 2021
- 2 min
Exceptionally Bad
Yesterday we got the news that the U.S. Drought Monitor has classified Sonoma County as exceptional--the worst of its five categories of...
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Joan Broughton
- Apr 27, 2021
- 2 min
What's the rush?
According to Cal Fire's 2021 Wildfire Season web page, "the fire season in California and across the West is starting earlier and ending...
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Joan Broughton
- Apr 22, 2021
- 1 min
"A Drop in the Bucket"
Following up on my March 20, 2021 blog post, the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors, following the suggestions made by the Center for...
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Joan Broughton
- Mar 20, 2021
- 1 min
Board of Supervisors and PG&E money
The Sonoma County Board of Supervisors will meet at 8:30 a.m. on Tuesday, March 23. They are scheduled to discuss the findings from...
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Joan Broughton
- Mar 15, 2021
- 1 min
Fire is not always a bad thing
In an article titled Armstrong Redwoods could reopen by Memorial Day, the Press Democrat talked to Brendan O'Neil, the senior...
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Joan Broughton
- Mar 11, 2021
- 1 min
Learning from experience
The Bohemian published an Open Mic piece I wrote about how, having experienced such devastating wildfires over the last few years, all of...
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Joan Broughton
- Mar 1, 2021
- 1 min
Chief Marshall Turbeville Leads the Way
Congratulations to Marshall Turbeville, chief of the Northern Sonoma County Fire District and a Cal Fire battalion chief. He is to...
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Joan Broughton
- Feb 23, 2021
- 1 min
Insult to injury
We're all familiar with the types of losses associated with California wildfires: deaths and injuries, destruction of property, and...
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Joan Broughton
- Feb 13, 2021
- 1 min
2020 Grape Harvest Value Cut in Half
In 2020, fruit damaged by wildfires and left on the vine resulted in a devastating loss for North Coast grape growers. According to the...
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Joan Broughton
- Feb 13, 2021
- 1 min
The Latest from PG&E
PG&E recently filed a 1,013-page plan with utility regulators in which they say they'll spend $6 billion in the next two years on new...
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