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Wishing all Healdsburgers a happy and healthy 2022. The recent rain, followed by sunshine has a few, early blades of mustard grass already popping up. In case you didn’t know, “IDlewood 3” (433) was the town’s original telephone exchange and now “Hedda Healdsburg” wants to know all! Please send your newsy items to me in care of The Healdsburg Tribune.

The Healdsburg City Council had a unanimous vote last week in approval of changing the city’s three-stage water shortage contingency plan of the Healdsburg Municipal Code to a six-stage plan, aligning with the California Department of Water Resources recommendations on water contingency plans.

The following are crimes excerpted from Sebastopol Police Department daily crime log entries and listed at the time the alleged violation was reported.

For over six years, Healdsburg Junior High School’s Gender & Sexualities Alliance (GSA) club has been a safe haven for several students who were looking for a place of support — now the club has evolved into so much more.

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.