Cloverdale council to hold application process to fill vacancy
The Cloverdale City Council unanimously decided to have a recent council vacancy filled via a public application process, foregoing a special election that the city said would cost between $16,000 and $26,500. The council seat belonged to former council member Jason Turner, who stepped down from his post on May 4 following a professional opportunity.
Alexander Valley Cellars announces north county wine shipping, storage acquisition
Alexander Valley Cellars finishing deal to buy Wine Country Cellars and Shipping
Healdsburg, Reach for Home awarded Homekey grant for interim housing site at L&M Motel
The City of Healdsburg in collaboration with Reach for Home has been awarded over $7 million in Project Homekey Round 2 grant funds for the establishment of a 22-unit interim housing site for Healdsburg’s chronically homeless at the L&M Motel on Healdsburg Avenue.
End of year housekeeping, new year prep, on the agenda for HUSD
At the May 16 meeting of the Healdsburg Unified School District Board of Trustees the agenda is filled to the brim with end-of-the-year housekeeping items.
Healdsburg City Council to consider Plaza Street closure
The Healdsburg City Council will hold a special meeting on Monday, July 27 at 5 p.m. to discuss and consider a proposal to limit parts of Plaza Street between Healdsburg Avenue and Center Street to cars to allow for more pedestrian use and additional social distancing space for retailers and restaurants. If agreed to, the limitation — either a one-way configuration or a full closure — would remain in place through Labor Day as a trial run.
Sebastopol’s Rotarians, Arts Center and VFW Post handing out holiday meal boxes on Christmas Eve
The Rotary Clubs of Sebastopol, the Main Club and the Sunrise clubs will be unable to host its annual community all-comers Christmas dinner this year and instead club members, along with the Rotary Club of Sebastopol, the Sebastopol Center for the Arts and the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 3919 will be assembling Holiday Food Boxes for free distribution on Christmas Eve at the Sebastopol Center for the Arts (282 S. High Street, Sebastopol.) Also supporting the giveaway is the Gold Ridge VFW Post.
Windsor’s pioneer woman suffragist
In 2020 we celebrate the 100th anniversary of women’s suffrage in the United States. Shortly after the pandemic shut us down, Paula Freund and John Sheehy from the Petaluma Museum Association called with a question about the Latimer family. A researcher had discovered the name “Mrs. Judge Latimer” in the book, “History of Woman Suffrage” by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and asked if we were familiar with her.
Saturday Event Will Salute the Spirit of Creativity
AVFilm of Cloverdale will be presenting their inaugural Impact Award to “celebrate the future of film” to Erica Milsom, a San Francisco animator whose career with Pixar produced several award-winning films.
Among them is the computer-animated short, Loop, the story of two kids adrift on...
