Police Log, Oct. 7 – 13
8:53am The Reporting Party (RP) indicated that a person continually parked in a vehicle near Santa Rosa Lead Products on South University Street was leaving behind trash, including soda and beer bottles. The RP was asked to call back if the vehicle returned and if the vehicle continued to leave trash behind...
Remembering Susan Swartz
In every writer’s life comes a great editor, someone who tweaks your creative mess, and voila, you’ve got a great piece of writing. So I am in a quandary, writing about my best friend, my best editor, a writer extraordinaire, Susan Swartz, who lived with curiosity, energy, compassion, kindness, style, jokes and was just plain fun.
Votes Yes on M
For too many years, Healdsburg’s public library and all of the Sonoma County Library branches have suffered with reduced hours, less staff and a loss of programs due to budget cuts made during the Recession that have not been restored.
Gibbs Park gets uplifting, artistic addition
Those who walk by Byron Gibbs Park can expect to see a bright new addition — a mural depicting an ombre rainbow is being put up on a stretch of patch-painted fence near Poppy Hill Drive this weekend, from June 26 to June 30.
Proposition 25: Abolishing cash bail
As part of its statewide election coverage, CalMatters has given Sonoma West Publishers permission to use its explainers of state propositions. Scroll through the module below to learn about Proposition 25.Â
Brief high-speed chase ends in foot chase and arrest for Healdsburg resident
Weapons, drugs, cash found
Two new places for coffee and pastries in Sebastopol
There are two new places to grab coffee, pastries and more in Sebastopol: Peet's Coffee in downtown and Criminal Baking Company in south Sebastopol.
Peet’s Coffee comes to Sebastopol
OK, so it’s a chain, but for those Sebastopudlians from the Bay Area, who remember the original...












