Health department sweep in west county
The west part of the county was recently shocked when some of the most beloved, venerable eateries were suddenly closed by the Sonoma County Health Department.
Trees Demand Equal Rights
Two weeks after the Healdsburg Planning Commission voted to approve a new parking lot at Montage Healdsburg, members of the citizen group Climate Action Healdsburg (CAH) filed an appeal that will take the decision to the City Council for reconsideration...
School districts and parents trying to explore options for child care
With the return to in-class instruction still up in the air for the 2020-21 school year and the growing possibility of a return to stricter shelter in place guidelines, many Sonoma County parents are left scratching their heads, worried and anxious, wondering what to do to meet child care needs this fall.
In Memoriam: Jendala Utsch
Longtime Healdsburg resident, artist, nonprofit founder and spirit leader Jennifer Utsch, better known as Jendala, died of cancer in the wee hours Wednesday morning, according to loved ones who posted on her Facebook page. They had chronicled her decline on the page over the previous...
Cloverdale City Council selects Cruz as mayor, Lands as vice mayor
Cruz will serve as the city’s first Latina mayor
Our unnamed legacy
The oldest people in Sonoma County can remember the days of Prohibition (1920-1933) and we still have a cluster of World War II survivors who can tell stories about food and gas rationing and local coastal blackouts to hide from Japanese submarines. Our most elder Baby Boomers can recall when the county’s population almost doubled between 1950 and 1970, from 103,405 to 204,885. (Today’s population is 486,000.)
