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Feb. 25 will mark the first in a series of public meetings being held to update Sonoma County’s hazard mitigation plan. The five-year update of the 2016 Sonoma County Local Hazard Mitigation Plan will have a more multi-jurisdictional approach.

On Nov. 19 the state of California announced it was implementing a “limited stay-at-home order.” This order would restrict activities between 10 p.m. and 5 a.m. in all counties in Tier One/Purple of the state’s Blueprint for a Safer Economy metric. Restricted activities include all nonessential businesses and social gatherings. Restaurants would have to close to all but take-out and delivery by 10 p.m. each night. Essentially, between 10 p.m. and 5 a.m. it would be a return to early March restrictions.

With Halloween around the corner, and families desperate for some degree of normalcy, trying to figure out what activities can be enjoyed safely has become important. Around the county, there will be drive-thru events, social-distanced events and many neighborhoods are going through with trick-or-treating with pandemic precautions. Figuring out which of those options is safe for your family can be tricky.

County supervisors to host series of public workshops to finalize updates

Around 10 rivaling demonstrators stationed at the intersection of Main Street and Highway 12 in downtown Sebastopol on Jan. 8 for their weekly Friday noon rallies.

The lower Russian River’s sweetest treat spot, the Guerneville Bank Club located at 16290 Main Street, is being awarded a prestigious historic preservation award this week (Oct. 21) by the Californian Preservation Foundation.

Halloween is still happening in the lower Russian River area. Various businesses and River Friends of the Library present a few ways western Sonoma County families can safely pull off an evening of fun for kids as the coronavirus pandemic remains very much alive in Sonoma County this autumn.

WCUHSD school board will reevaluate current health and safety conditions around Sept. 8

Board of Supervisors provided feedback on plan, which will come back at a future board meeting

Sonoma County Health Officer Dr. Sundari Mase announced Thursday night, June 18, a large-scale reopening of many of the county businesses that have been shuttered due to the county’s shelter-in-place order. The new order, which allows businesses such as nail salons, tattoo parlors, movie theaters, gyms, museums and galleries to open, goes into effect at midnight on Friday, June 19. The easing of the order also allows hotels, short-term rentals and campgrounds to open for recreational travel — though, the county is still trying to discourage long-distance travel for leisure.