Costume drive brings Halloween to evacuees
Correction: Liz Carrasco is not the pastor of the Church--she is the coordinator for the costume drive. The church's pastor is Doug Manson.
Freele named Literary Laureate
Healdsburg writer Stefanie Freele was named Healdsburg’s sixth
Jury covers quakes, health
The Sonoma County Civil Grand Jury tackled several big issues this year, including health treatment in the county jail, protecting local water systems against earthquakes, problems with the county’s mental health budget and the chronic neglect of county-owned properties. Last week, we looked at the report on health care in the county jail. This week, we’ll briefly review the other topics.
Trains
I was recently reminded of a 1912 article published in The Healdsburg Tribune which reported that Healdsburg would soon have eight passenger trains daily. The article describes the increased convenience for Healdsburg businessmen who would be able to make a round trip to the City in one day, and for the San Francisco businessman “whose family might be spending the summer at one of the many resorts” in our area. I assume the link across the bay to San Francisco was a ferry from Sausalito. Anyway, it sounds pretty good to me and I hope I'm alive and kicking if and when the SMART train is running along the same route as 1912 trains and replicates their service.
City reps hold forums to let public speak on local issues
Sebastopol City Councilmember Guy Wilson and Mayor Sarah Glade
A grim fire season outlook and a parched county: ‘All of these ingredients are not in our favor’
This summer is shaping up to have all of the key ingredients of an early and dangerous fire season. Exceptionally dry brush coupled with severe to extreme drought conditions in Sonoma County has fire chiefs worried about the potential for large wildfires, especially along the ridgetops of the coastline where it’s unusually dry for this time of year.
How might the west county high school consolidation impact English learners?
English Language Learner (ELL) students may see some changes when Analy High School and El Molino High School merge into one at the start of the coming school year.












