PG&E conducting aerial patrols starting Monday
Beginning Monday, April 26, Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) will be conducting aerial patrols of gas transmission pipelines in the North Bay. Residents may notice a helicopter flying as low as 300 to 500 feet, or a fixed-wing aircraft following the transmission lines in Sonoma County. Additionally, PG&E will be patrolling lines in Vallejo, Marin and Napa counties.
Mini late-spring heat wave hits Healdsburg
Let me just step in here and preach to the choir about how insanely hot it was over the weekend. Almost record-settingly so, according to Press Democrat reporter Alana Minkler, who reports that “by midafternoon Friday, temperatures in Cloverdale and Healdsburg hovered around 100 degrees” and “at the...
Income, language, other barriers add to kindergarten readiness gap between white and Latinx children
Unequal access to resources in Sonoma County plays a key role in the kindergarten readiness gap between white and Latinx children uncovered by a local study by the Road to Early Achievement and Development for Youth (READY) program.
In the wake of looming budget cuts, a petition fights to save North Bay Met
A petition has been started by a teacher at North Bay Met Academy, one of Windsor’s alternative high school programs, to help save it from impending budget cuts.
Sebastopol Budget Subcommittee to review community grants March 30
The Sebastopol Budget Subcommittee will convene at 8:30 a.m. Tuesday, March 30 to go over community benefit grant requests to present to the Sebastopol City Council with recommendations, according to the city’s community newsletter for the week of March 19 to March 25.
County’s homeless crisis pushed to backburner by COVID-19 pandemic
Annual homeless count delayed as Grand Jury report is released
Police Log, May 12-18
In the early morning hours of May 14, a hit-and-run accident occurred on Hudson Street at Front Street. The RP requested police check the area. Officers arrived on scene and located the RP’s vehicle that was legally parked with damage to the body. Officers located a trail of oil leading to a suspect vehicle possibly involved in the accident. The vehicle was towed for evidence and a report was taken
