Sebastopol City Council preview
The Sebastopol City Council is slated to address a small agenda at its meeting on Oct. 20, with no presentation, one proclamation and three regular business items. The meeting will be held virtually starting at 6 p.m. The meetings are broadcast live over Zoom or livestream.com, and are also available to watch after the meeting occurs. To view the full meeting agenda, click here.
Urban Water Management Plan hearing on May 24
An update to the county’s major domestic water use plan that
It’s time to plant a rain garden
The term “rain garden” is being used more and more by landscape architects and gardeners alike. It is a fanciful term that conjures images of a garden that magically creates rain. What a rain garden is, however, is one of many landscape features that fits into the category of “low impact development for storm water” or LID. Like many other LID features, rain gardens gather, hold, filter, and slow storm water runoff.
Inclusion means everyone at new playgrounds
Nearly a dozen people followed one another to the speaker’s podium at last week’s City Council meeting, many of them teens from local schools or the Girl Scouts. All of them agreed on one thing: It was time for Healdsburg to have a Magical Bridge Playground.
Dry Creek community meeting an update on habitat enhancement
Dry Creek residents and all those interested in the progress of the Dry Creek Habitat Enhancement Project are invited to attend the annual Dry Creek Community Meeting on Thursday, Feb. 22, 6 to 8 p.m. at the Milt Brandt Visitors Center at Lake Sonoma.
Schools in Sonoma County closed due to fire. School sports and games cancelled this week.
All schools in Sonoma County, except Fort Ross on the coast, are closed due to the fires, and all school sports and games have been cancelled for this week.
Commentary 9-8-16
Ending the Healdsburg Growth Management Ordinance (GMO) has been promoted with the argument that reduction of regulatory limitations on building market-rate housing will increase the number of affordable housing units available.
COVID-19 survivor shares experience with Food For Thought’s nutrition program
Edwin Ruano, of Petaluma, doesn’t know how he and his family contracted COVID-19 in late March. “But as soon as we knew that we got it, we called everyone that was close to us the week before, he said. “And then everybody got scared and they all went to (get) tested and they all got positive.”












