Food system checkup; diagnosed with poverty
“How will we feed ourselves?” asked Joseph McIntyre last month to a packed house at Santa Rosa’s Luther Burbank Center for the Arts.
Sebastopol reorganizes council, welcomes new member
The city of Sebastopol heralded its new leaders as the city council unanimously appointed former Vice Mayor Una Glass as the new mayor and Councilmember Sarah Glade Gurney as vice mayor at the Dec. 1 city council meeting. Newly elected Councilmember Diana Rich beamed, taking her virtual seat at the table over Zoom while Neysa Hinton returned to hers and Michael Carnacchi bade the council farewell.
The Matheson still on track to open spring of 2021
Despite the chaos of living and working in a COVID-19 world, Dustin Valette’s restaurant, The Matheson, is still slated to open in March of 2021, and while some changes have been made to accommodate more outdoor dining, the local restaurateur is excited for his new endeavor.
Facing a 20% drop in revenues, Sebastopol dips into reserves
The city of Sebastopol approved the adoption of the 2020-21 budget at the Oct. 20 Sebastopol City Council meeting. Last week, on Oct. 14, an entire special meeting of the council was devoted to a consideration of a budget.
Police Log, March 10-16
It started Monday morning: "11:16am A warrant service officer contacted a man and woman at Goodwill Industries on Healdsburg Avenue. A 58-Year-Old (YO) man was cited and released on two outstanding Sonoma County warrants regarding failure to appear, possession of a switchblade, trespassing, possession of an open container, theft of utility services and possession of drug paraphernalia..."
No threat in north county from fires in west county
For an uploaded list of evacuation orders, visit our sister paper, Sonoma West Times & News.











