Next Week in Community

Here are some of the stories and columns we are working on for next week's Community section, Thursday, May 14, 2020.

LOCAL ARTIST SEEKS TO INSPIRE BARNYARD ‘SUPERHEROES' WITH POP-UP ART DISPLAYS: Have you seen a certain chicken superhero popping up around town lately? Petaluma's Rayne Madison has launched a project she calls Superhero Unfolding. In our next Community Section, contributor Clark Miller talks with Madison about how the project came to be, and what she's planning next.

NEW NORMAL ON THE TRAILS: Now that parks have been reopened, with strict restrictions as to social distancing, mask-wearing and more, we take a look at the new and evolving etiquette around bicycles and pedestrians as they share the walkways of Petaluma.

WAITING FOR TAROT: Petaluma author, artist and film producer Kary Hess has created the brand new Spark Tarot deck, painting a new vision of the classic card series, focusing on feminine power and a playfully modern sensibility.

PETALUMA'S PAST: In a new column titled “Summer of Love,” Skip Sommer covers the middle months of 1967, when hordes of young “hippies” swarmed to San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district and overflowed into Marin and Sonoma counties. Such names as Lou Gottlieb, Bill Wheeler and The Grateful Dead formed communes here, disrupting our sense of “normal” so drastically, that the FBI got involved.

OUT AND ABOUT ONLINE: We continue to bring a list of “events” taking place online in and around Petaluma.

(Some or all of these anticipated stories are subject to change)