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Service clubs arrive with free dictionaries

The county has given the green light for art galleries to reopen, along with several other non-essential businesses such as salons, and local galleries are taking a slow and steady approach to opening their doors. Galleries such as Fulton Crossing and The Upstairs Art Gallery in Healdsburg are opening with limited hours and an emphasis on social distancing, and others like the Sebastopol Center for the Arts and the Cloverdale Arts Alliance are planning to reopen mid-July, also with limited hours and stringent health guidelines in place.  

A new light art installation that’s activated by sound is now up on the gazebo at Plaza Park, a colorful and innovative installation by local couple Gregg and Greta Schoenberg.

With the warm weather of summer, people like to get out and about in California famous natural environment, but in doing so we enter the territory of one misunderstood, but still dangerous, native species — the rattlesnake.

UPDATE: After the paper went to press, union negotiator Brian Miller confirmed that, after meeting with the district during the day on Wednesday, Nov. 6, the union is planning to go on strike next Wednesday, Nov. 13.

In 2019 the Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office responded to 72 of the 596 U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) requests for impending inmate release information and in 2020 the Sheriff’s Office responded to 57 of the 466 information requests, ultimately resulting in 31 arrests by ICE in 2019, and 12 in 2020 according to data from the Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office Detention Records Bureau.

Thanks to Rotary swim volunteers

In an eight-part series we look back at the world that was, here in our little corner of it. 2020 was a year of challenges. We’ll be publishing this eight piece work daily as we work to the new year. Today’s piece is on the fires that spread through the county and the challenges of dealing with public safety power shutoffs.