Cloverdale council candidate forum this Thursday
The Cloverdale Chamber of Commerce is hosting a virtual forum for Cloverdale City Council candidates this Thursday, Sept. 24 at 7 p.m. and will last for a maximum of 90 minutes. The forum will be hosted over Zoom as a ‘webinar.’
CHP to launch maximum enforcement period of patrol for New Year’s
After 40 people died on California roadways last year during New Year’s, the California Highway Patrol (CHP) is reminding motorists to drive safe and sober this holiday by increasing enforcement and launching a maximum enforcement period (MEP) on roadways from Dec. 28, 2018 to Jan. 1, 2019.
Stay home order extended
The Bay Area region, including Sonoma County, is under the state order until four-week projections show 15% ICU capacity
Good news for local news
Most of the time journalists go around looking for trouble. Lately, we haven’t had to look very hard. Our reporting has focused on the viral pandemic, the wildfires, the drought, climate change, civil unrest, constitutional insurrection and attacks of “fake news” against our very being and profession. It’s never been more challenging to seek out troubles and alert our public about problems that need solutions. We watchdog our government leaders to uphold our public trust, our laws and our democracy. We sit through endless school board meetings and local government sessions looking for anything that might smell fishy. We count on you, our readers, to act on your civic duties as voters, taxpayers and independent voices. We can’t force you to read our news or speak up, but we will never tire of imploring you to raise your voices to power and to defend our fragile democracy.
From the Library
Summer greetings from your community library staff. We have truly cherished seeing so many of you the last few weeks as we have reopened slowly but surely. You have our apologies about the various changes in hours — I know it has been important for the libraries to be careful with rolling out the hours to keep everything consistent across the county and take incremental steps so that we don’t have to roll anything back.
Sonoma County Crab Season On Hold
Our local Dungeness crab season is on hold again this year, "due to the risk of humpback whales and endangered sea turtles being caught in fishing equipment," the Eater SF food blog reports. State officials will do their next risk assessment on Dec. 21, but right now it's looking...
