Commentary: Will Healdsburg’s city council lead on climate action?
The Healdsburg City Council adopted a climate emergency declaration in 2019 and has taken some isolated actions since then. However, the city lacks a comprehensive Climate Action Plan with deadlines and staff/budget allocations. Healdsburg 2040, a citizen-led grassroots organization, believes the city council must prioritize climate action in its goal-setting session on March 7, 2022.
Keiser Park update plans move forward with WUSD joint uses in mind
The Town of Windsor is resuming its plans to expand the borders and facilities of Keiser Park, after a nearly eight-month pause to coordinate potential joint uses with the Windsor Unified School District (WUSD).
Sebastopol’s projected general fund deficit shrinks by over $700,000
Earlier this month, the Sebastopol City Council unanimously approved the city’s mid-year budget adjustments for the 2021-22 fiscal year, which demonstrated a far lower shortfall in the city’s general fund than what was expected when the budget was first adopted in July 2021. In the same motion, the council also accepted the quarterly financial information report.
Our unnamed legacy
The oldest people in Sonoma County can remember the days of Prohibition (1920-1933) and we still have a cluster of World War II survivors who can tell stories about food and gas rationing and local coastal blackouts to hide from Japanese submarines. Our most elder Baby Boomers can recall when the county’s population almost doubled between 1950 and 1970, from 103,405 to 204,885. (Today’s population is 486,000.)
Healdsburg Community Response Grants awarded to four local nonprofits
$200,000 in community response grants will be going out in varying amounts to several local nonprofits in an effort to bolster organizations’ work in responding to childcare, food, mental health and direct assistance needs.
WSCUHSD board to discuss school colors, interim superintendent
Another night of influential decision-making approaches at the West Sonoma County Union High School District’s public board meeting Wednesday, Feb. 9 at 6:30 p.m. The Zoom link and agenda are available at this link.
Washington School second quarter award winners
To help celebrate Cloverdale's local students, we'd like to recognize all of the kids from Washington Middle School who were named Student of the Month and Eagle Award Winner for the second quarter. Scroll through the gallery above to see the students with their awards.
City council majority not interested in pursuing an all-electric reach code
A request from Healdsburg’s vice mayor to pursue a building reach code update that would include a ban on all-natural gas — creating all-electric reach code — couldn’t get enough traction Feb. 7 from fellow city council members in order to move forward despite resident support of such a ban.
