Hot 4th of July weekend fills West County parks and beaches
INDEPENDENCE — Thousands of revelers descended on Sebastopol
Mothers struggle to return to work as California reopens
Before the pandemic, Patricia Gutierrez would drop her 8-year-old autistic son off at school in San Jose and her 4-year-old son off at day care every morning. After her mother, who suffers from Alzheimer’s, was picked up and shuttled to a senior center, Gutierrez would drive to work as a licensed vocational nurse at a school for special needs students.
Possible WSCUHSD consolidated school rebranding projected for fall 2022
If rebranding does come to pass for the consolidated high school of the West Sonoma County Union High School District (WSCUHSD), it won’t be until next fall by Superintendent Toni Beal’s projection as of the Sept. 14 school board meeting.
Letters to the Editor, Oct. 24
"I am an affordable housing advocate, but Measure O and its aftermath are riddled with issues. I see it as a huge, uncertain affordability experiment, not a plan..." So writes a long-time Healdsburg resident about the city's plan to create an exclusion zone from the Growth Management Ordinance...
WUSD expanding universal PreK-TK for 4-year-olds ahead of state mandate
Windsor Unified School District (WUSD) recently announced that it would expand its preschool and transitional kindergarten (PreK-TK) program to include younger students starting in the 2022-23 academic school year, three years ahead of the state mandate to do so.
Sebastopol Budget Subcommittee to review community grants March 30
The Sebastopol Budget Subcommittee will convene at 8:30 a.m. Tuesday, March 30 to go over community benefit grant requests to present to the Sebastopol City Council with recommendations, according to the city’s community newsletter for the week of March 19 to March 25.
Healdsburg animal shelter logs, Feb. 24 – 26
This report is courtesy of the Humane Society of Sonoma County’s Healdsburg Center for Animals and may not reflect all animal control activities in the Healdsburg community. For more information call 431-3386.
