Elijah Woodward leans back in his seat and taps his bare foot on the tile in his kitchen, keeping in time with an electric metronome. Across the way, his student, Genesis Short, blows into her bagpipe ...

Seven years ago, Mason Valley Fire Chief Scott Draper floated a question to Aaron Pelligrini, one of the department’s newest volunteers: What would it take to form a bagpipe and drum band to honor the ...