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Petaluma Argus-Courier @petaluma360.com · 8m

Clo Cow Half Marathon to prompt weekend road closures. Click the image for more info.

Clo Cow Half Marathon to prompt weekend road closures

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Petaluma Argus-Courier @petaluma360.com · 16h

Announcing the 2025 winners of Petaluma’s annual Whiskerino competition. Click the image for more info.

Announcing the 2025 winners of Petaluma’s annual Whiskerino competition

“Welcome to the Phoenix Theater, beardos!”

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Petaluma Argus-Courier @petaluma360.com · 18h

Map: Spooky houses for Halloween in Sonoma County and Napa County 2025. Click the image for more info.

Map: Spooky houses for Halloween in Sonoma County and Napa County 2025

See the map of homes in Sonoma and Napa counties decorated for Halloween.

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Petaluma Argus-Courier @petaluma360.com · 22h

‘Blubbery pie’: Petaluma adapts to the ‘German Crisis’ during WWI. Click the image for more info.

‘Blubbery pie’: Petaluma adapts to the ‘German Crisis’ during WWI

The draft, war horses and government whale meat dominated local news.

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Petaluma Argus-Courier @petaluma360.com · 1d

Maria Carrillo blanks Piner in flag football. Click the image for more info.

Maria Carrillo blanks Piner in flag football

Plus: More results from around the North Bay, including golf, cross country and volleyball.

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Petaluma Argus-Courier @petaluma360.com · 1d

Sonoma County Supervisor James Gore drops out of state Senate race. Click the image for more info.

Sonoma County Supervisor James Gore drops out of state Senate race

The move narrows the field among Democrats currently vying for the 2nd District seat held since 2015 by Mike McGuire.

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Petaluma Argus-Courier @petaluma360.com · 1d

Sheriff’s Office: Third person, a former house cleaner, arrested in Sept. 12 Sonoma home invasion-robbery. Click the image for more info.

Sheriff’s Office: Third person, a former house cleaner, arrested in Sept. 12 Sonoma home invasion-robbery

A third person has been arrested in connection to a violent home invasion robbery that took place in Sonoma on Sept. 12.

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Petaluma Argus-Courier @petaluma360.com · 1d

Celebrating life and death: Dia De Los Muertos events in Petaluma. Click the image for more info.

Celebrating life and death: Dia De Los Muertos events in Petaluma

The Day of the Dead has become a regular part of the fall season in Petaluma, where the nonprofit group El Dia de los Muertos Petaluma began holding community-wide celebrations 25 years ago.

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Petaluma Argus-Courier @petaluma360.com · 1d

Candy, cornbread, chili: Halloween dinner with no tricks, just treats. Click the image for more info.

Candy, cornbread, chili: Halloween dinner with no tricks, just treats

This time of year has to be one of my favorite “holidays” of all times. I love every aspect. Decorating our home. Handing out candy to the hordes of costumed kids who mob our storefront during the …

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Petaluma Argus-Courier @petaluma360.com · 2d

Volleyball: Cardinal Newman, Windsor, Analy among winners. Click the image for more info.

Volleyball: Cardinal Newman, Windsor, Analy among winners

Plus: More results in flag football, golf and tennis from around the North Bay.

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Petaluma Argus-Courier @petaluma360.com · 2d

Plenty of enjoyable twists and turns in 6th Street’s ‘Bad Seed’. Click the image for more info.

Plenty of enjoyable twists and turns in 6th Street’s ‘Bad Seed’

“Do children ever commit murder?” asks a character in the play “Bad Seed.” If they do, is it because “They grow up in the slums surrounded by criminals?” “Bad Seed,” now being performed at 6…

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Petaluma Argus-Courier @petaluma360.com · 2d

‘Andy’ on the page: Jean Schulz’ acclaimed film now a children’s book. Click the image for more info.

‘Andy’ on the page: Jean Schulz’ acclaimed film now a children’s book

Petaluma animator Jamy Wheless will be joining Schulz for a book-signing at Copperfield’s on Saturday, Oct. 18.

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Petaluma Argus-Courier @petaluma360.com · 2d

Letters to the Petaluma Argus-Courier, Oct. 10, 2025. Click the image for more info.

Letters to the Petaluma Argus-Courier, Oct. 10, 2025

“If this man was your hero, by all means honor him and fly your own flag at half-staff. But our government should represent us all.”

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Petaluma Argus-Courier @petaluma360.com · 2d

Petaluma gymnast Galilee Vestnys,16, verbally commits to University of Utah. Click the image for more info.

Petaluma gymnast Galilee Vestnys,16, verbally commits to University of Utah

“It’s a dream come true,” says the 16-year-old national champion and Casa Grande High School junior.

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Petaluma Argus-Courier @petaluma360.com · 3d

‘Andy’ on the page: Jean Schulz’ acclaimed film now a children’s book. Click the image for more info.

‘Andy’ on the page: Jean Schulz’ acclaimed film now a children’s book

Petaluma animator Jamy Wheless will be joining Schulz for a book-signing at Copperfield’s on Saturday, Oct. 18.

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Petaluma Argus-Courier @petaluma360.com · 3d

Argus-Courier’s annual Halloween fiction contest now open. Click the image for more info.

Argus-Courier’s annual Halloween fiction contest now open

For the last eight years, every autumn as Halloween approaches, we’ve asked local writers of all ages to try and scare us. And they have. Some of the nightmare-inducing stories we’ve received…

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Petaluma Argus-Courier @petaluma360.com · 3d

Applications open for Petaluma Veterans Day parade. Click the image for more info.

Applications open for Petaluma Veterans Day parade

This year’s parade theme is “A Salute to the Military Women.”

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Petaluma Argus-Courier @petaluma360.com · 3d

John Scharer, 90, remembered as steady, unassuming longtime Petaluma city manager. Click the image for more info.

John Scharer, 90, remembered as steady, unassuming longtime Petaluma city manager

Much of the cityscape familiar to today’s Petalumans took shape during John Scharer’s era of quiet leadership, which came during a period of significant growth. He ““understood wh…

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Petaluma Argus-Courier @petaluma360.com · 3d

Sonoma County orders masking for some health workers through March. Click the image for more info.

Sonoma County orders masking for some health workers through March

Facilities subject to the order include skilled nursing facilities, portions of long-term care facilities where nursing care is provided, acute and non-acute rehabilitation facilities, infusion cen…

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Petaluma Argus-Courier @petaluma360.com · 4d

‘One Battle After Another’: One of the best movies of the year?. Click the image for more info.

‘One Battle After Another’: One of the best movies of the year?

Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest centers on four characters. Bob Ferguson (Leonardo DiCaprio) is a retired one-time revolutionary, long since gone into hiding. Perfidia Beverly Hills (Teyana Taylor), …

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Petaluma Argus-Courier @petaluma360.com · 4d

Played any good books lately? A Petaluman looks at the history of ‘LitRPG’. Click the image for more info.

Played any good books lately? A Petaluman looks at the history of ‘LitRPG’

Humans play games. It’s one of our defining features. This is the thesis of Johan Huizinga’s 1938 book of theories on play and games, “Homo ludens” (which roughly translates to “playing…

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Petaluma Argus-Courier @petaluma360.com · 6d

Luma Fitness moves to downtown space. Click the image for more info.

Luma Fitness moves to downtown space

Luma Fitness – profiled in the Argus-Courier’s Small Biz column a few months back – has big news. On October 1,they move from their longtime location on the south side of town to their new, e…

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Petaluma Argus-Courier @petaluma360.com · 6d

Salute to their Service Photo Gallery 2025. Click the image for more info.

Salute to their Service Photo Gallery 2025

Share photos of family, friends and co-workers who currently serve or have served in the military for a chance to be included in our annual photo gallery.

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Petaluma Argus-Courier @petaluma360.com · 7d

Spreckels’ ‘Into the Woods’ brings magic, mayhem and some serious earworms. Click the image for more info.

Spreckels’ ‘Into the Woods’ brings magic, mayhem and some serious earworms

While billed as “a fairytale for grownups,” Spreckels’ Theatre Company’s new rendition of “Into the Woods” saw plenty of younger faces in attendance on its opening night. Before the Rohnert P…

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Petaluma Argus-Courier @petaluma360.com · 8d

Petaluma Pride Festival ready for community celebration at fairgrounds. Click the image for more info.

Petaluma Pride Festival ready for community celebration at fairgrounds

Perfectly timed to coincide with National Coming Out Day on Saturday, Oct. 11, the local nonprofit Petaluma Pride is focusing its attention on building community and celebrating with friends and al…

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