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On June 8, Alexander Valley Union School District’s former principal-superintendent Robert Patrick Raines was arrested on suspicion of lewd acts with a child under the age of 14, according to the Marin County Sheriff’s Department. Raines, 66, left Alexander Valley in 2016 after working there for nine years to become the superintendent of the Shoreline Unified School District, according to Raines’ LinkedIn profile.

The Cloverdale City Council meeting on June 9 is bound to be a long one, as the council is slated to hold three public hearings — for its water and wastewater rate increases, one for its 2021-22 budget and a third for its landscaping and lighting assessment districts — as well as conduct interviews with the end goal of appointing and swearing in a new council member. The meeting begins at 6 p.m. and the full agenda for it can be found here.

School’s out for summer, but the long-term planning of the West Sonoma County Union High School District’s (WSCUHSD) student outcome goals and proposed budget for the coming year is on the agenda for the 6 p.m. school board meeting Wednesday, June 9.

English Language Learner (ELL) students may see some changes when Analy High School and El Molino High School merge into one at the start of the coming school year.

Students in the far west regions of Sonoma County are concerned about how they'll be getting to school this fall. With the pending consolidation between El Molino High School and Analy High School, the district's transportation services have been a point of concern for many in the community for months. Superintendent of West Sonoma County High School District Toni Beal said that she and the school board can confirm that the district will be providing transportation options next school year.

On June 7, the Healdsburg City Council adopted a resolution that requires all commercial, residential and industrial customers to achieve a 40% reduction in water usage, or provide the city with a request for exemption that includes that good faith efforts have been made to achieve the highest level of water reduction for the customer.

Cloverdale Wellness, a dispensary on South Cloverdale Boulevard, opened its virtual doors earlier this year. While Cloverdale Wellness opened up for both curbside and delivery service on April 20, the doors to its South Cloverdale Boulevard location will remain closed until July 1.

Around 120 Fitch Mountain residents participated in a community evacuation drill on Saturday, June 5. The drill — which was organized by the Sonoma County Office of Emergency Management, the Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office, the city of Healdsburg and local COPE groups — started at 8 a.m.

Two suspects have been arrested in relation to a homicide at the Park Ridge Apartments in Rohnert Park, and one of them is from Windsor.