Country Summer postponed to 2021, virtual event planned for June
Country Summer, Northern California’s biggest country music festival has been postponed until June 25 to 27, 2021. Country Summer was meant to take place in June 2020, but when California was hit hard by COVID-19, the annual three-day event was rescheduled for Oct. 23 to 25, 2020.
Major cuts loom for city’s community services department
If approved, budget cuts could affect rec programs, park maintenance, arts and culture events
The Humane Society of Sonoma County using new facial recognition technology for lost pets
The Humane Society of Sonoma County (HSSC) is adding a new weapon in its arsenal to reunite lost pets with their owners: facial recognition technology. The shelter now offers the community an additional tool to help lost and adoptable dogs and cats find their forever home, through a partnership with the company Finding Rover.
Next county cannabis ordinance update vote is April 15
Following almost seven hours of staff presentations and public comments on March 18 and March 25, Sonoma County’s Planning Commission on April 15 will meet to possibly vote on a slightly revised staff proposal to move forward a series of significant updates to the county’s Commercial Cannabis Cultivation Ordinance.
Supply up, demand slowing for county’s winegrape crop
2019 could be year of price adjustments, consumer contrariness
Salmon in as mayor, filling his seat becomes new focus
At the June 2 meeting on the Windsor Town Council, the door was closed on the local political career of former mayor Dominic Foppoli, but it was clear there is still a deep political divide in the town that will continue for some time, as Vice Mayor Sam Salmon was appointed mayor, but plans to fill his seat ended in a deadlock with the council in stalemate.
‘Keep the magic going’: New owners at the helm of Monte Rio’s theater
The new owners of Monte Rio’s theater want to revitalize the theater as west county’s community hub and are hoping to bring in farmers markets, live music, outdoor movie screenings and more.
Healdsburg Chamber installs new officers to begin a new year
There was a changing of the guard at the annual meeting of the Healdsburg Chamber of Commerce as the board chair’s gavel was passed from Cartograph Wines owner Alan Baker to Shelley Anderson, of the Healdsburg High Academic Internship Program. New and returning board members also took the oath of office during the meeting, held March 5 at the CraftWork space in the downtown Mitchell Center.
Newspapers becoming nonprofit
To keep local journalism alive, the owners of this newspaper and three other community newspapers in Sonoma County are transferring their ownership to a new nonprofit created to help the papers compete in a 21st century news market defined by online competition and a flood of information that is often free.
Local icon looks toward future after home burns
When the Kincade Fire crested the hill behind Kip Miller’s home on Pine Flat Road, it was big and moving fast.
