SLIDESHOW: Halloween in Healdsburg Plaza
Downtown Healdsburg merchants continued the annual tradition of welcoming youngsters (and their families) downtown to walk around the Plaza and collect treats.
Portuguese Pop-Up to Raise Funds for Healdsburg Schools
Sale hosted by Café Lucia and Two Thirty-Five Luxury Suites
Will travel and tourism return with California reopening?
When COVID-19 shut down businesses and travel across the U.S., communities such as Anaheim that rely heavily on entertainment and tourism were some of the hardest hit. Hotel occupancy taxes, which accounts for more than half the city’s budget, plummeted 90% between 2019 and 2020.
Windsor school board discussing outdoor masking requirement, district enrollment
The Windsor Unified School District Board of Trustees are meeting on Tuesday evening, Nov. 9. The board will be receiving reports about enrollment, Windsor High School athletics, as well as holding the first reading of the educator effectiveness expenditure plans for both the district and for Cali Calmécac Language Arts Academy. School board trustees will also receive a COVID update from Superintendent Jeremy Decker, specifically asking them to consider either continuing or ending the district’s outdoor masking requirement and will receive a presentation on the school plans for student achievement.
The return of The Hammer
The Hammer made its official triumphant return after the Fourth of July festivities at the Plaza.
Improving access to your library: Library eliminates fines
PAID ADVERTORIAL — Last year, the Sonoma County Library went “fine-free” and eliminated overdue fines for items returned late. In addition, all past fines were waived. In all, more than 80,000 people — 30 percent of all library borrowers — had their overdue fines waived.
Who’s dying in California from COVID-19?
It’s been longer than a year and a half since COVID-19 first arrived in California, and the demographics of who is dying from the virus are changing.
Sebastopol council considering amendments to parking ordinance, fine structure
During the next Sebastopol City Council meeting, scheduled for Tuesday, April 19 at 6 p.m., the city council is slated to hold two public hearings — one to amend the language in the city’s parking ordinance, and another that seeks to introduce an increased parking fine structure for the city. Additionally, council members will receive presentations about Ives Pool and about the city’s Relaunch Sebastopol campaign, a report from the Committee for the Unhoused, and consider standard conditions of approval for development projects, merging the city’s Zero Waste and Climate Action committees, as well as potentially adopting the city’s Local Road Safety Plan, among other items.
