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The Sebastopol City Council is meeting virtually Tuesday night, July 21 at 6 p.m. You can watch it live, or watch a recording of it after the meeting occurs.  

2021 was another momentous year for west county schools under the pandemic. The year grew especially top-heavy for the West Sonoma County Union High School District (WSCUHSD) striving for stability as consolidation rocked the community.

All local posts and chapters of the American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) are scheduling traditional Veterans Day ceremonies for this Saturday, Nov. 11. Several local businesses also are offering discounts and special invitations to veterans and their families.

Last week, the Cloverdale Chamber of Commerce hosted a forum for the five candidates running for Cloverdale City Council. The five candidates — Melanie Bagby, Mary Ann Brigham, Jenny Candelaria-Orr, Nicole Garcia-Hinchliffe and Todd Lands — are vying for two seats on the council, currently held by Bagby and Brigham.

Local police officers had a couple of big days last week, as they tracked down three teenage boys suspected of attacking another 19-year-old male near East and Mill streets, just a couple blocks east of the roundabout, around 6pm on Tuesday, April 15. Cops...

New babies — According to conservation biologists from Audubon Canyon Ranch (ACR), two mountain lion kittens were born at Trione-Annadel State Park in early February to a female mountain lion being tracked by ACR’s Living with Lions research study. This marks the first litter delivered by the 3.5-year-old mother cat (named P11 for the study), who in September was captured and fitted with a GPS-tracking collar just outside the park’s boundary.

David Hagele and Evelyn Mitchell were unanimously approved as mayor and vice mayor of Healdsburg for 2024, to follow the year-long term of Mayor Ariel Kelley.