Gaye LeBaron

My previous column, about the Santa Rosa Plaza, its history and its division of the town, prompted considerable feedback. People offered to march. A West county resident expressed gratitude to me for showing respect for Sebastopol’s activism.

There are all kinds of ways to think about the Golden Gate Bridge on this 75th anniversary - its iconic status; its beauty and grace; its symbolism for engineering marvels and/or political triumphs. The bridge can be seen as an economic miracle of the Great Depression;

New hospital was priority for postwar Santa Rosa and triumph for community activism.

In the early years of the 20th century, progress was spotty and sporadic. But each new section of the Redwood Highway was celebrated. Here’s why.

Local historians have formed a committee to restore, preserve and protect decades worth of documents currently stored at Los Guilicos.

When Carol Eber’s well-known ancestor’s gravestone turned up in the Santa Rosa museum, the story of this British adventurer and his Mexican-Californian wife took on some immediacy. She wanted to know exactly where that gravestone once was, where Mark West was buried.

Each of these “choices” evokes memories of bitter battles of decades past and the same old question: Is this compatible with people’s vision of Sonoma County’s future?

Gaye LeBaron writes about Santa Rosa’s next big development, a bushy-tailed nemesis, the latest on the Ruth Asawa fountain’s return to Old Courthouse Square and a long-running ski club.

I was grocery shopping at Oliver’s Market recently when present-day politics jumped up and bit me.

The symphony. An old cemetery. A nod to historic preservation. Sometimes, it’s the little things that make our city so special.