Rotary project helps get water to Tanzanian school
The Rotary Club of Sebastopol Sunrise, in partnership with the Rotary Club of Bukoba, Tanzania, successfully completed a water, sanitation and hygiene Rotary Global Grant project at Iluhya Secondary School in Bukoba. The rural boarding school, 30 kilometers outside of town, lacked sufficient water for the 600 students, faculty and staff. Students had to rise at 5 a.m. and hike 4 kilometers to a spring and carry water back to school in five-gallon buckets each day before attending classes.
Letters to the Editor, Sept. 12
Several letters were received these past two weeks about Measure O, the city's proposal on the Nov. 5 ballot to amend the Growth Management Ordinance, or GMO...
No criminal charges filed against PG&E related to the October 2017 wildfires
Sonoma County District Attorney Jill Ravitch, along with the district attorneys for Napa, Humboldt and Lake Counties, announced on March 12 that no criminal charges would be filed against PG&E related to the October 2017 Northern California wildfires. After an extensive review, each office determined that insufficient evidence exists to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that PG&E acted with a reckless disregard for human life in causing the fires, the standard necessary to sustain criminal charges.
SLIDESHOW: Farmers’ market opens for the season
The Healdsburg Farmers’ Market Saturday market opened on May 5 and will run through the end of November. It is open 8:30 a.m. to noon every Saturday in the West Plaza Parking Lot (behind Bear Republic Brewing Company) at North and Vine Streets, one block west of the downtown plaza.
