Year in Review: Schools
Over the next two weeks, Sonoma West Times & News will be rehashing 2020 in west county. We’ll be reviewing the biggest events in the local schools, as well as covering topics such as COVID-19, health care, homelessness and more.
With wary eyes on neighboring fires, Healdsburg helps out
Efforts still in place to restore internet, senior center
Out in the burn area
Sonoma West Publishers visited various areas in north Sonoma County at around noon on Oct. 28. The mandatory evacuation is still in place and not open to the general public.
New limited stay-at-home order to go into effect Nov. 21
On Nov. 19 the state of California announced it was implementing a “limited stay-at-home order.” This order would restrict activities between 10 p.m. and 5 a.m. in all counties in Tier One/Purple of the state’s Blueprint for a Safer Economy metric. Restricted activities include all nonessential businesses and social gatherings. Restaurants would have to close to all but take-out and delivery by 10 p.m. each night. Essentially, between 10 p.m. and 5 a.m. it would be a return to early March restrictions.
2019: A year along the Russian River
The vague sense of dread that hung over the lower Russian River last year seemed to arrive after the November 2018 Camp Fire disaster destroyed the Northern California town of Paradise. Guerneville greeted the New Year chattering about escape routes and blocked roads and asking “What if?”
Healdsburg Cops Find Weed, Weapons in Cloverdale Search
Ramon Macias, a 39-year-old Cloverdale resident, was arrested and charged with illegally possessing an assault weapon, marijuana sales and violating pre-trial terms after Healdsburg Police Department executed a search warrant at his residence.
City Manager Gets an Assistant
An important city position was filled this week as Andrew Sturmfels was introduced to the City Council at their June 21 meeting as the new assistant city manager, to aid in the administration of Healdsburg’s city business and staff.
The crucial position has been vacant...
Sparks fly over county’s proposed pension panel
If the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors’ plan to reinstitute an independent advisory committee on pension reforms wasn’t a politically-motivated proposal it became one after labor union leader Lisa Maldonado attacked it during a public hearing this week.
