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The Healdsburg City Council will consider adopting a $45 per delivery fee for the residential recycled water delivery program at its next meeting on Monday, Sept. 20. The council will also review the proposed Montage Park and Badger Park master plans.

The Koi Nation, a Pomo Indian tribe in Sonoma County, announced Sept. 15 their plans to build a 68-acre casino in unincorporated land between Windsor and Larkfield-Wikiup along Old Redwood Highway.

The switch to a by-trustee area election method is underway at West Sonoma County Union High School District (WSCUHSD), inviting community feedback on mapping voting areas at its first public hearing on Sept. 14.

Despite the resurgence of the coronavirus in Sonoma County this summer, students are back in their seats at Windsor’s schools — and the Windsor Unified School District has unveiled a new COVID-19 Information Portal to keep community members apprised of COVID-19-related activity across the district.

Remember when one of our biggest arguments was over “paper or plastic” when we went grocery shopping? Turns out, we were all wrong. Now it’s canvas or bring your own recyclable bag. New mothers used to be torn over whether to breastfeed their babies or use infant formula from purified cow’s milk, vegetable oil or soy. Many people once viewed breastfeeding as “unnatural.”

The Healdsburg City Council is interested in finding a site for a homeless shelter that could serve Healdsburg’s shelterless population. That was the sentiment that was expressed unanimously by the council during a special city council meeting on homelessness on Monday night.

The 2021 Sebastopol Apple Blossom Parade is rolling through town this weekend in a flash of good news for anyone feeling nostalgic for some public celebration. 

Windsor High School’s new principal is working to bring consistency and trust to students and faculty at Windsor High School, as students return amid mask mandates and after years of unstable leadership.

Town of Windsor staff will be at the Farmers Market by the Town Green from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Sunday to ask community members for input on two projects: the Windsor Resilience Plan and the Old Redwood Highway Corridor Enhancement Plan.

A power outage has led Harmony School District in Occidental to close Wednesday, Sept. 15, summoning buses and informing parents to pick up the children who were already on campus, according to Jamie Hansen, director of communications at the Sonoma County Office of Education (SCOE).