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Also on today's calendar: 2026 Community Parkwide Sale and 9 more events.
Today's riddle: When geese fly, one side is longer than the other. do you know why that is ? 🤔 (Answer below!)
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• Sonoma County winegrowers grapple with smoke taint after Woodside Fire (pressdemocrat.com) — Healdsburg winemakers are scrambling to assess how smoke from the recent Woodside Fire may affect this year's Pinot Noir, using new rapid "nano-fermentation" tests to detect taint. Local vintners like Dot Wine's Lise Asimont and MacPhail Family Wines' James MacPhail are weighing costly decisions on whether to accept or reject potentially affected Russian River Valley fruit.
• Flashbacks for September 17, 2026 (healdsburgtribune.com) — Healdsburg readers can look back at a visiting actress in 1901, a 1951 Civil Defense move, and a 1976 council decision rejecting Peninsula housing development that would have replaced farmland. The column also reminds you the Healdsburg Museum is open five days a week on Matheson Street if you'd like to explore more of the town's past in person.
• Sonoma County jurors levy additional $2 million verdict against former Windsor Mayor Dominic Foppoli (sfchronicle.com) — Sonoma County jurors have ordered former Windsor Mayor Dominic Foppoli to pay more than $15 million in damages to seven women, with part of his wealth tied to his Healdsburg winery, Christopher Creek. The punitive award follows a two‑month civil trial and raises questions about how his local business holdings might factor into collecting the judgment.
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P.S. The answer to today's riddle: because there are more geese on that side (Thank you jo L. for sending it in!)
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