Chamber honors top businesses
Five individual business organizations were singled out for their popularity and community leadership at an annual Business of the Year awards on Friday, July 13, sponsored by the Healdsburg Chamber of Commerce. The event was an outdoor barbecue at the Villa Chanticleer, catered by KR Catering.
Long-awaited Suffragist Exhibit opens to the public at the West County Museum
The West County Museum was all set to open their Suffragist Exhibit in March 2020, when the world shut down for more than a year for COVID-19. Like everything else, the museum closed its doors, and for the past year, the exhibit has stood draped and unvisited behind the museum’s stone walls, perfectly preserved, like sleeping beauty’s castle.
Three day storm leaves little damage behind
Despite last weekend's major storm and a trail of more rain from
Measure B forum talks tourism versus services and schools
The Sonoma County League of Women Voters hosted a forum devoted to discussing the pros and cons of the two measures on the ballot for west county voters in March. The first, Measure A, asks voters to approve a $48 parcel tax for West Sonoma County Union High School District (WSCUHSD) and the other, Measure B, asks voters to approve a 4% increase to west county’s transient occupancy tax for hotels and short-term rentals to help support west county schools and fire districts.
Flatbed Music Festival coming to Sebastopol in June
A few weeks ago in these pages, Sebastopol Mayor Patrick Slayter expressed a desire for more fun events around town, and like a peripatetic post-holiday elf, Jann Eyrich is here to deliver.Â
Gifts for ourselves
What links the outcomes of recent news stories about schoolteacher pay and strikes, SMART train expansion, mental health services, Kincade Fire recovery, expanded fire protection services, future Highway 101 improvements and happier holidays? Would you believe local shopping dollars?
Special CUSD meeting Tuesday covers summer maintenance, special job descriptions
The Cloverdale Unified School District Board of Trustees is holding a special meeting Tuesday, June 1, at 4:30 p.m. The special meeting will only address a small handful of items, including a presentation about the district’s summer maintenance project list and consideration of job descriptions for three expanded learning opportunities teacher job descriptions. The meeting will begin at 4:30 p.m. instead of the usual 6 p.m., and the Zoom link for it can be found here.
COVID reopening and budget finalization top WUSD meeting agenda
COVID-19 and budgeting will dominate the discussions at the June 30 meeting of the Windsor Unified School District Board of Trustees.
Healdsburg fair a multi-generational event
With the Healdsburg Future Farmers Country Fair less than two
Arts & Entertainment
Stage face-off: Revenge vs. rivalry
Local audiences seeking a solid presentation of an American theatrical classic have two very diverse options right now. The Raven Performing Arts Theater hosts Stephen Sondheim’s massive macabre musical, "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street," while The 222 offers Sam Shepard’s more intimate fraternal drama, "True West." Both run in Healdsburg through Nov. 8.
