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Windsor’s redistricting process has produced three map options for review.

Amid the surge of the highly transmissible omicron variant, the Healdsburg Unified School District (HUSD) has been seeing higher than usual absence rates. District administrators are hopeful that new California Department of Public Health (CDPH) guidance on COVID contact tracing and quarantining in schools will allow more students to stay in school.

The City of Healdsburg is moving forward with the L&M Motel/Reach for Home interim housing project for the chronically homeless, a move which the city housing administrator and council members say is significant in terms of closing a gap in services and addressing the needs of the local homeless population.

There are lots of big topics dominating the news these days. We’re getting pretty darn tired of most of them, like the omicron variant of the coronavirus, the open-shut door carousel at our local schools, renewed sheltering-in-place orders, a drought that comes with a tsunami warning and muddy feet and distant drumbeats about what’s being called “existential threats” to our democracy. But the biggest — and most real — current news topic is probably inflation, an economic menace we haven’t had to face for almost 40 years. 

The annual Cloverdale Citrus Fair is being postponed until April, the fair announced Wednesday morning. The Citrus Fair will now be held April 21-24, 2022.

The West Sonoma County Union High School District (WSCUHSD) voted in closed session Wednesday night to remove district Superintendent Toni Beal from her position, effective immediately.  Donald Evans, a former superintendent for Berkeley Unified School District, will serve as the district’s short-term superintendent.

The Sebastopol City Council is moving toward approval for an ordinance to limit recreational vehicle parking and the growth of establishments like Morris Street’s RV encampment, opting not to create a permitting process as of its Jan. 18 meeting.

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Moving into the new year, Windsor COPE is working on becoming more known around the Windsor community. Community involvement is the disaster preparedness organization's main goal for 2022 and forward. 

In their first meeting of the new year Jan. 20, the Windsor Unified School District (WUSD) Board of Trustees will hear about marketing its recently announced expanded PreK-TK program, decide whether to add a senior project to graduation requirements (except for students on independent study) and likely select an architectural firm to conduct its Facilities Master Plan update.