How do you like your coffee and what does that say about you (or your date)?
Christmas Holiday Parlour Tour December 6th. 3 homes, Gospel Concert, Museum Display, and refreshments included in ticket price.
Once again, the NFL stubbed their toe on an urbanism issue. It’s fine that they love cities, but respect would also be good.
“The Trouble with City Planning” is a mostly useful book, but has an oddly overinflated opinion of planners.
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By Brandes Elitch, Director of Partner Acquisitions at CrossCheck, Inc. in Petaluma
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Support Shane Lopes who has Optical Nerve Atrophy/Neuropathy, and is a Petaluma resident regain his vision.
Parking can be a scourge of urbanism. Black Friday Parking tries to highlight the civic harm from outsized lots.
The terrorism in Paris has lessons to impart. Hopefully, we’ll choose to listen.
CrossCheck of Petaluma donates four tons of Turkey to the Committee on the Shelterless.
Jim and Linda Donohue will hold a holiday open studio showing Jim's functional ceramics and Linda's original abstract paintings.
Land use planning shouldn’t be about blindly following rules. It should be about how people, particularly children, really live.
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Induced traffic may not be intuitive, but skillful writers will eventually drive the point home. Pun intended.
Petaluma Transit is seeking information toward its goal of connecting with SMART. And murals now adorn a downtown Petaluma alley.
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Come Mix & Mingle, Sip & Socialize with the Friends of PEF!
Neighbors can often provide valuable insights to land-use concepts, but the insights can be buried in a mudslide of overwrought rhetoric.
Local senior dog rescue celebrates beloved pets in luminaria celebration to raise money.
Parade of over 2,000 people strolling through Downtown Petaluma. Food, drink, fun, music and festivities will be taking place all day long.
Art and Crafts Sale Sunday November 15th 11-5
The repetitive furor about California public pensions misses that point that we’re not tackling the root issue.
StrongTowns has made a convert in the plains of Kansas. Listening to the story of his conversion and further thoughts is exciting.
Long-standing concerns about tribal lands south of Petaluma may have been targeting the wrong vision of the future.
On Friday Nov. 20th, there will be a Lunch Time "Flash Mob" at Roy's Chicago Dogs @ the Yard in Petaluma
SMART continues to pursue the idea of locating a train station a long walk away from buildings with an uncertain future.
Adobe House, a memory care community in Petaluma, was the top fundraising team for the Alzheimer's Association
You are invited! Join us for our first PEF Pop-Up Party on Thursday, November 12th, 6 -9 p.m. at La Dolce Vita Wine Lounge
It’s time to get serious about parklets in Petaluma. A kickoff meeting to write a draft parklet policy will convene in a few days
Share a your poetry or bring a favorite on the 3rd Friday of each month
Taize services are candlelit services of contemplative chant and song offering participants an alternative worship experience.
Years after his passing, Bill Soberanes remains one of Petaluma's most unforgettable characters
An earlier post on parklets elicited much comment. The responses may be of general interest.
Let's make some local kids really, really happy.
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Announces Four Potential Operators of Petaluma Valley Hospital
After two visits, I’m pretty sure that I’m falling in love with Chattanooga. I need to return, soon.
The 2nd Annual Classic Car Show for a Cure at Adobe House in support of the Alzheimer's Association was a success!