A summer place
You could hear some jeers over the polite applause last week when Sonoma County banned new vacation rentals in established residential neighborhoods.
Fair Days
While some of us long for the days of our younger years, when we spent our summer breaks sleeping in, going to the movies or hanging with friends, we aren’t picturing the realities of hundreds of Sonoma County youth, who have spent the past months raising steer or milking goats, feeding hogs and grooming sheep.
Alumni and community rally against renaming Analy High School
The realization that the planned consolidation of Analy and El Molino high schools this fall marks the end of Analy’s 113-year legacy has set in for its alumni and other community members and they’re not having it.
Sebastopol Rotary Sunrise holding silent auction for the Russian Riverkeepers’ Clean Team
Rotary Club of Sebastopol Sunrise is doing a silent auction, called the Water and Life Auction, from May 2 through May 16 to raise money for the Russian Riverkeepers’ Clean Team and their work keeping the Russian River and its tributaries clean and healthy.
Congressional art competition open to high schoolers
Cloverdale students have taken first place in two of the last three years
Buttoning up mail-in and in-person voting
In-person voting opened in Sonoma County on Saturday. As folks head in to fill out their ballots, or put them in the mail, we’ve gathered some last-minute questions and answers regarding how to vote, as well as what happens to ballots cast in the days leading up to the election.
‘Totally inadequate’: Most Californians in wildfire-prone counties aren’t signed up for emergency alerts
Tracey Aldrich had never heard of CodeRED, Butte County’s opt-in emergency notification system, until she came upon a roadblock leading up to her mother’s house in August. At the roadblock, police told her a firestorm was bearing down on her mother’s neighborhood in Berry Creek. Neither she nor her mother had received any evacuation warnings.Â














