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December 12, 2025

Sheriff Freitas retiring early from office

Leaving next month to focus on health

A Wall Street sequel?

—Rollie Atkinson

Copenhagen Hygira

Editor: Sending four people to the Copenhagen Climate Control

Taking Care of Business

If all goes well, anyone coming north toward downtown Healdsburg will soon be greeted by a number of “Hometown Heroes” banners lining Healdsburg Avenue.  In partnership with local Rotary and the American Legion posts, the city will launch a program featuring local active duty military...

Preschool openings at Town of Windsor

The Town of Windsor’s preschool programs, which cater to

Police Logs, Oct. 23-29

Monday, Oct. 23 1:18pm A hit-and-run accident occurred at CVS Pharmacy on Center Street. The reporting party (RP) indicated her vehicle was hit and the suspect was trying to leave. Officers responded and arrested a 48-year-old (YO) woman for driving under the influence of alcohol. Tuesday,...

Four Windsor students attend youth leadership forum

This summer, Landon, Ryan, Zayne and Larson, all from Windsor, joined elementary school students from across the country to take part in an academic and career-oriented development experience, the National Youth Leadership Forum (NYLF): Pathways to STEM. NYLF Pathways to STEM is one of the Envision by WorldStrides family of programs that enable students to explore their interests and experience learning beyond the classroom.

PG&E conducting line inspections using drones and helicopters

Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) is conducting its updated system inspections program in Sonoma County using drones and helicopters along electric transmission lines.

Down on the farm

Many of us who live here in Sonoma County have been wrestling with our identity the past few years. We stopped calling this place the Redwood Empire several years ago, but not all of us want to be known as wine country. By land mass, we’re still rural and agricultural. But, by many other measures we prefer to be urban and urbane, more hip and less hick. We get wowed with mentions of “Sonoma style” and “wine country lifestyle” from places like New York, Los Angeles or Paris.

County, cities carry on contrarian climate change campaign

As the Trump Administration works to dismantle the Environmental Protection Agency and deny human-caused climate change and the State of California keeps suing to preserve west coast environmental protections, the smaller governments of Sonoma County are flying under the radar, steadily attacking their ambitious goals to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by whopping amounts and shifting regional transportation modes and power usage.
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