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Santa Rosa Press Democrat podcasts bring you into the life, times and many communities of California's North Bay region. "Overtime with Kerry Benefield" is a twice-monthly look at prep sports. In "Storybytes," Press Democrat reporters explore the news that affects us and the people we live with as neighbors, friends and strangers.

  1. 01/26/2024

    Culture Junkie: My "movie date" with Tommy Smothers

    Petaluma Argus-Courier writer David Templeton recalls his chat with comedian Tom Smothers in Santa Rosa, Sonoma County back in 1999. Hear a bit of their conversation recorded at Third Street Aleworks.

    1 min

  2. 05/26/2023

    The low snarl of a Jaguar encounter

    Sonoma Index Times reporter Chase Hunter shares the story of Sonoma's Bernie Krause, a 'soundscape' engineer whose describes in vivid detail his encounter with an exotic predator.

    3 min

  3. 02/26/2023

    Santa Rosa Mayor Natalie Rogers

    Santa Rosa Mayor Natalie Rogers speaks during a Black History Month event organized by Petaluma Blacks for Community Development.

    1h 22m

  4. 11/09/2022

    Local Analysis of election results for the North Bay, California and the nation

    Local analysis on election results in North Bay, California and national elections. Sonoma State political science professor David McCuan provides analysis on Tuesday's elections in this conversation with Press Democrat Deputy Editor Brett Wilkison and reporters Paulina Pineda and Phil Barber including a breakdown of local races of interest in Santa Rosa, Petaluma, Windsor and Rhonert Park, as well as statewide ballot issues and national trends.

    32 min

  5. 11/03/2022

    Five years after Tubbs Fire, Mark West Springs neighbors forced to flee united by grief, change

    Press Democrat reporters Mary Callahan and Kerry Benefield talk about the survivors' harrowing stories from the Mark West neighborhood during the Tubbs Fire in Sonoma County 2017 and how you move on from that. They talk about gaining trust as a reporter with people who have gone through the most devastating experiences. About dispatchers working through the night of the fire knowing their own homes were burning down and stories from first responders still wishing they could have done more.

    23 min

  6. 11/01/2022

    In His Own Words: The Night of the Tubbs Fire

    Mike Harkins stayed behind as the flames approached his Coffey Park neighborhood and everyone else evacuated. Harkins knocked on doors to make sure people were awake, and leaving. He helped his elderly neighbor, a wheelchair user, into her van. When he wasn't hosing down his house and the houses of neighbors, Harkins was stamping out spot fires. Harkins recalls that night for The Press Democrat.

    6 min

  7. 10/28/2022

    PDPreps Ep. 10

    Football season is coming down to the wire. Press Democrat sportswriters Gus Morris and Kienan O'Doherty take a look at some big results from Friday Night Lights — including a surprise in our Game of the Week — and look ahead to the second-to-last week of the regular season, with league title races very much up in the air:

    55 min

  8. 10/28/2022

    PD Preps 100 Yard Walk Ep. 9

    100 yards with Casa Grande's Kodi Cornelius. The Gauchos lineman talks with The Press Democrat about this week's big rivalry game with Petaluma, the annual Egg Bowl.

    3 min
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Santa Rosa Press Democrat podcasts bring you into the life, times and many communities of California's North Bay region. "Overtime with Kerry Benefield" is a twice-monthly look at prep sports. In "Storybytes," Press Democrat reporters explore the news that affects us and the people we live with as neighbors, friends and strangers.

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