Healdsburg at the Crossroads as SMART Meets GRT
A dozen more-curious-than-normal hikers walked along Foss Creek Pathway on Thursday last week, taking the measure of the footpath from the City Hall at North and Grove streets south to the trail’s current terminus where the railroad tracks cross Front Street.
Though a public notice...
Measure M: Voters OK sales tax hike to fund parks
Sonoma County voters approved a local sales tax hike this week to pay for overdue park improvements and upkeep with the passage of Measure M on Tuesday’s ballot.
Photos: Wastewater solar array serves a double purpose
Rob Scates of the city’s Water and Wastewater operations, and Utility Conservation Analyst Terra Sampson led the tour, providing education and inspiration for over a dozen local residents committed to a zero-emissions future. Photos by Rick Tang...
Map Your Neighborhood looks ahead to a dangerous fire season
With wildfire season approaching during a drought year, Sonoma County residents have reason to feel a sense of dread. West county especially may have a sense of urgency after encountering the first major wildfire on this side of the valley last year with the Walbridge Fire and two straight years of evacuations — first during the Kincade Fire in 2019 and then during the Walbridge Fire in 2020.
Marchers have come home, but what’s next?
Inspired and activated, newly minted activists plan for their future
City budget review looks at cuts, changes
Healdsburg City Council and the city’s administrative services and finance director, Heather Ippoliti, have started to review the city’s budget for the next fiscal cycle. The council met several times last week in both closed and open session meetings to discuss the city’s biennial budget for 2020-21 and 2021-22 and the necessary budget changes and cuts that will need to be implemented to soften the blow from the COVID-19 related economic recession.
Jefferson principal departing at end of school year
Yakich will finish out the year in Cloverdale, moving to Windsor’s Mattie Washburn Elementary in July
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.
