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Today's riddle: What do you get if you buy a French ax and have it shipped? 🤔 (Answer below!)
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• Absolutely Iconic Italian Wine Country Restaurant On 'Check Please' (patch.com) — Petaluma diners can watch hometown favorite Volpi's Ristorante & Bar featured on KQED's "Check, Please! Bay Area" on Nov. 5, highlighting its century-old roots and speakeasy-style backroom bar. The story recalls the late John A. Volpi's role in preserving the Washington Street gathering place, his accordion performances, and the family's deep ties to the Petaluma Accordion Club.
• Big Money Shakes Up Petaluma Local Elections (ksro.com) — Petaluma's upcoming local elections are seeing an unprecedented surge of outside money, with political action committees and major donors pouring tens of thousands into the mayoral and city council races. Competing groups are funding attack mailers and defenses of incumbents, while one committee backing a mayoral challenger faces questions about campaign finance transparency.
• Learn About ReLeaf Petaluma's Mission To Plant 750 Oaks (sonomamag.com) — ReLeaf Petaluma is closing in on its goal of planting 750 native oaks on bare, city-owned parcels, aiming to restore Petaluma's historic oak woodlands and boost biodiversity. Volunteers collect acorns across the North Bay, then carefully sanitize, chill, and sprout them into saplings that will shade neighborhoods and stabilize local waterways for decades to come.
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P.S. The answer to today's riddle: "What do you get if you buy a French ax and have it shipped?" — You have a foreign ax-sent (accent) (Thank you Carrie E. for sending it in!)
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