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Blood Centers of the Pacific’s Santa Rosa Center is back open and in need of volunteer blood donors after being closed for nearly two weeks due to the North Bay wildfires. The blood center is both a hub of operations that delivers blood products to all the Sonoma County hospitals as well as a blood donation center.

Monday, Oct. 23 1:18pm A hit-and-run accident occurred at CVS Pharmacy on Center Street. The reporting party (RP) indicated her vehicle was hit and the suspect was trying to leave. Officers responded and arrested a 48-year-old (YO) woman for driving under the influence of alcohol. Tuesday,...

At its meeting on Dec. 3, the Sebastopol City Council unanimously passed a Climate Emergency Resolution declaring that “a climate emergency threatens our city, region, and all life on Earth.”

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There were plenty of surprises at the Palm Drive Health Care District Board meeting last night. The biggest surprise was that the two hot button issues that most of the public had shown up to hear about — the setting of the tax rate for next year and the fate of the Gravenstein Health Action Chapter — had been removed from the agenda during a 5-minute open session earlier that day, when no members of the public were present.

Cloverdale High School’s graduation and Washington School’s promotion are both moving forward with in-person celebrations, but the specifics of what it will look like will be largely dependent on where the county sits in the state’s Blueprint for a Safer Economy COVID-19 tier system.

Here’s how I usually find out about Bike to Work Day, an annual event put on by the Sonoma County Bicycle Coalition to encourage people to get out of their cars and bike to work.

Sonoma-Marin Area Rail Transit (SMART) announced Thursday that the commuter rail agency would begin participating in the new Clipper START pilot program, allowing lower-income adults aged 19-64 to receive a fare discount of 50% on the SMART system.