Laguna graduating class nearly three times the size of last year’s
Laguna High School celebrated a boom of graduates Thursday morning, June 3, while dozens of families smiled and squinted under the high sun, flowers and balloons in hand. Some stood or sat in lawn chairs, attending the ceremony on the campus basketball courts from the other side of the fence.
Vaccine passports in California? Answers to your questions
Now that more than 7.5 million Californians have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19, the Newsom administration has set a goal of reopening the state’s economy by June 15. So what does the state plan to do when it comes to proving that people are vaccinated?
Windsor Year in Review: Crime
By far the most notable crime story of 2021 were the sexual assault and misconduct allegations levied at former Mayor Dominic Foppoli, prompting two months of defiance before eventual resignation from his position. To read more about the Foppoli scandal, see the Town of Windsor Year in Review article, which covers how the scandal developed.
Wine, weed, water and us
Sonoma County and its residents have become victims of too many cumulative impacts. We have backroads with too many wineries and valleys with not enough water. We’ve had tons of illegal cannabis for decades and are now fighting to figure out how to make it legal and grow it in the right places. Farmers need lawyers and land use consultants just to plant a crop or plow a hillside. We’ve had a generation-long debate about preserving our rural character but we can’t even agree on what the term exactly means.
Spring Break Tinker Academy aims to inspire middle school girls in science and technology
The Girls Tinker Academy is expanding in 2021 to include a spring break offering for up to 48 middle schoolers in Sonoma County to engage in maker pedagogy and encourage the exploration and development of technical, mathematical and artistic abilities.
Tribune Oct. 31 print edition delayed, now on racks
Update:Â The print edition for Oct. 31 is now on our racks. Due to concerns of evacuations and postal service, Sonoma West Publishers did not mail this edition out. All stories in the Oct. 31 edition, which focuses exclusively on the Kincade Fire, are also available for free on all four of our websites. Thank you, readers, for your patience as we return to our normal print schedule for the Nov. 7 edition.
