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SUPERVISORS BAN NEW GAS STATIONS IN COUNTY
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GOAL SET TO REACH CARBON NEUTRALITY BY 2030 By Will Carruthers
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Photo courtesy of Molly Murphy MacGregor
Sonoma County is taking another step towards a gas-free future. On March 14, the county’s board of supervisors approved a ban on new retail gas stations in the unincorporated county as California endeavors to end the sale of gas-powered cars in 2035. Sonoma County’s ban will go into effect on April 13. “Preventing new gas stations in the unincorporated county is just one of the tools we need to employ to reach our climate goals. Gas stations can be toxic sites, with run-off pollution and soil contamination, and we need to shift away from fossil fuels if we’re going to make a dent in climate change,” board chair Chris Coursey said in a statement following the vote. According to a county staff report, there were over 158 fuel stations in Sonoma County in 2016, 46 of which are in the unincorporated county. Sonoma County has set a goal of reaching carbon neutrality by 2030. Doing so will require major changes in transportation. In 2018, about 60% of the county’s greenhouse gas emissions came from transportation. By 2021, there were over 10,000 registered electric vehicles in the county. The legislation has been pushed by a local group named Coalition Opposing New Gas Stations (CONGAS). In a statement, Jenny Blaker, the group’s co-coordinator, highlighted the equity considerations at play. “In addition to the climate crisis and local impacts, CONGAS sees this as an environmental
HISTORIC Co-founders of Women’s History Month are honored in Statuary Hall at the Capitol in Washington, D.C. in 2000.
From left are Molly Murphy MacGregor, Paula Hammett, Mary Ruthsdotter and Maria Cuevas.
Homegrown Herstory NATIONAL WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH WAS BORN IN SONOMA COUNTY By Chelsea Kurnick
It was the late 1970s. Molly Murphy MacGregor, a graduate student at Sonoma State University (SSU), taught a lively class on Women and Social Change at Santa Rosa Junior College (SRJC) Petaluma campus. Momentum to study, uplift and celebrate women grew throughout the decade nationally and in Northern California; students and faculty at SSU pushed to create a women’s studies major in 1972, the Supreme Court passed Roe v. Wade in 1973 and Dr. Angela Davis rose to international renown as a professor, author and revolutionary fighting for women’s rights and Black liberation.
MacGregor and a group of local women would go on to create the first Women’s History Week in Sonoma County schools in 1978. Two years later, President Jimmy Carter called for Women’s History Week to be recognized nationally. In 1987, a Congressional resolution established Women’s History Month as a national phenomenon. This year will be MacGregor’s 43rd and final year as executive director of the National Women’s History Alliance (NWHA). She didn’t grow up planning to dedicate her life to teaching women’s history. Her conversion, as she calls it, took place while she was a high school teacher. When a student asked her about the women’s movement, MacGregor found herself speechless. At that moment, she recognized how little she knew and taught about women. That
Our goal was always to empower teachers and educate them as much as we could. MOLLY MURPHY MACGREGOR
assigned them because teachers were never taught women’s history. All of us teach what we know,” MacGregor says. Galvanized by a shared desire to provide the curriculum schools lacked, MacGregor and her students approached the Sonoma County Office of Education and asked to put Women’s History Week on school calendars. Soon after, MacGregor was among a group of women who formed the Education Task Force of the Sonoma County Commission on the Status of Women.
recognition proved pivotal, changing the course of MacGregor’s life. At SRJC, many of MacGregor’s students were young mothers returning to school. A few of these parents went to their childrens’ grade school libraries to check out books about women’s history. According to MacGregor, they found almost nothing— five to seven books, which hadn’t been checked out for years. “We knew they hadn’t been checked out because teachers hadn’t assigned them. And teachers hadn’t
CAMPO FINA TO BE EMPTY NO MORE SINGLETHREAD ALUMNI MAKE PLANS FOR HEALDSBURG AVENUE SPACE By Christian Kallen
Photo courtesy of Suited Hospitality
NEW RESTAURATEUR Jon Barr is the new owner of the restaurant space on Healdsburg
Avenue where Campo Fina used to be; his Molti Amici will open in summer.
The coveted downtown restaurant location at 330 Healdsburg Ave., vacated in October by Campo Fina, will reopen this summer as Molti Amici, loosely translated from Italian as “many friends.” “Campo was a space that I would dine at three to four times a week,” said new owner Jonny Barr,
MacGregor says, “We would provide teachers with resources and resource women to come in and talk during that week. Our goal was always to empower teachers and educate them as much as we could.” To create women’s history curricula, the women had to rely on source materials that underscored how dire the need for women’s history truly was. “When we started writing all the biographies we wrote, the most prestigious [source ➝ Herstory, 3
who moved to Healdsburg from New York. “It was one of the first restaurants that really made me feel at home and at ease. The first time I walked through the doors, it felt like a New York restaurant. Narrow, tight, exposed brick, lots of energy.” Barr, 38, came to Healdsburg to work as general manager at SingleThread, the Michelin three-starred restaurant on Center Street. That put him at center stage in Healdsburg’s rapidly developing haute cuisine trade, where he met multiple restaurateurs and their customers, who form the culinary heart of today’s downtown. That’s what gave him the idea for the name, Molti Amici. “Going into Campo Fina meant walking past ➝ Empty No More , 4