County supervisors approve additional COVID outreach to underserved communities
At their meeting on Oct. 20, the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to allocate approximately $4 million to support an enhanced series of strategies to assist with outreach to COVID-19 case curbing in at-risk communities.
Registration deadline nearing for Occidental, Timber Cove elections
The deadline to register to vote in the Nov. 2 Consolidated Election is Oct. 18. The election only applies to some voters — for west county, this means voters in the Occidental Community Services District and the Timber Cove County Water District.
Local distillers, herbalists make hand sanitizer to sell and donate
From the start of the epidemic right down to this day, certain products have been hard to get a hold of — toilet paper and hand sanitizers among them. We haven’t heard of any local TP makers, but two types of local businesses have thrown themselves into the sanitizer business: distilleries and herbalists, both of whom have access to high-proof alcohol as a part of their regular business practices.
Bucket Brigade blood drive helps community in disaster
Contest pits local fire departments against each other for community good
County’s proposal to realign ambulance services is potential threat to Bell’s Ambulance future
Supervisor Gore seeking colleague’s support for compromises
Guardians of the truth
TIME magazine’s ‘Person of the Year’ for 2018 is a group of imprisoned and slain journalists. The selection honors journalists as “guardians of the truth.” Besides being slain and jailed, journalists everywhere now face toughening challenges to investigate, report and defend the truth. This is true in oppressive non-democratic countries like Saudi Arabia, Russia, Myanmar and it is true right here where economic factors are eliminating journalist’s jobs and where our president calls journalists “enemies of the people.”
