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This year, January’s showers brought February flowers, likely

Sunday, June 7, marked Sebastopol's fourth day of protests over police brutality against people of color, and shouts of “No justice, no peace, no racist police” and the honking of horns filled the downtown area.

Scrabble at the senior center, Feb. 21

At the start of the pandemic, Brandon McCall’s two tenants ran into financial trouble. One had surgery, and went on disability, which tightened his purse strings. The other, who works in entertainment, was laid off almost immediately, and wasn’t eligible for unemployment as a contract worker. With a limited amount of cash coming in, McCall said the two of them stopped paying rent on his Van Nuys condo in Los Angeles. 

After a one-year hiatus, the 27th annual Cloverdale Car Show will be back this weekend, lining downtown Cloverdale on Sept. 11 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

The main point of contention at the Palm Drive Health Care District board meeting on Monday, May 5, was whether the district could dissolve in time to avoid having to pay tens of thousands of dollars for a board election in November.

The Windsor Town Council’s Dec. 15 meeting agenda includes items that will bid farewell to outgoing town manager Ken MacNab, receive a presentation on the ongoing development of a code of ethics for town officials and receive and accept the 2021 Annual Residential Growth Report and Five-Year Infrastructure and Service Report. The full agenda can be found here.

In 2020 we celebrate the 100th anniversary of women’s suffrage in the United States. Shortly after the pandemic shut us down, Paula Freund and John Sheehy from the Petaluma Museum Association called with a question about the Latimer family. A researcher had discovered the name “Mrs. Judge Latimer” in the book, “History of Woman Suffrage” by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and asked if we were familiar with her.