From the Library: Library resources for heading back to school
The staff at the library is excited to be there to help our community as we begin another school year in Healdsburg. If you are a student of any age, a teacher or a parent, we have something helpful to offer this year as we prepare for another chapter of this action-packed story of life in the 21st century.
Market Report: Continuing through ‘perilous times’
August is usually a broiling time of year, but as I write this it’s gray and kind of drizzly outside; a welcome relief for all of us concerned with fires and drought. Fires and drought: It sounds like some biblical warning of imminent disaster. In truth, our world does seem to feel more and more like we’re living in perilous times. The likelihood of those natural disasters happening to us in any given year has grown to be an accepted reality, living here in all this splendor.
Quarantined: A new law is disrupting California school reopenings
Heather Christiansen got an email on Aug. 14 from her son’s school, saying her 10-year-old had been in contact with a classmate who tested positive for COVID-19.
Fire at Sonoma and Mendocino county lines fully contained
A fire began on the west side of Highway 101 on the Sonoma County and Mendocino county line Thursday night, Aug. 26. At 11:33 p.m., roughly two hours after the fire was initially reported, it was declared contained, with two engines staying on the scene to monitor the situation.
Work begins on new Windsor roundabout
A yearlong project to install a roundabout at the intersection of Windsor River Road and Windsor Road entered its first stage Aug. 23.
Russian River Revitalization project is underway
River MAC members question if plan focuses too much on promoting tourism and too little on the impacts of tourism
State Water Resources Control Board testing city’s water for contaminants, first round of tests comes back clean
UPDATE 3:45 — According to the City of Healdsburg, the first round of tests that test the city's water has come back clean and there are no signs of contamination.
No shoes, no shirts, no sanity?
After a smoky and dry summer and a year of pandemic shutdowns, we are (mostly) sending our kids back to school. But we’re not exactly sure what we are teaching them. We have mixed lessons about wearing a facial mask. Maybe they help limit the spread of coronavirus droplets, but do mandated masks violate our personal freedoms? At the same time, there’s an ironclad prohibition that no student may walk into a school barefooted. What’s the lesson here? Is it that risking the spread of a deadly virus is less serious than exposing one’s toes?
Freestone Valley Ford cannabis application to be heard by supervisors
Existing operation seeking 5-year permit extension
Boil water notice issued for portions of Healdsburg
After a water main break at a construction site in Healdsburg earlier today, the State Water Resources Control Board Division of Drinking Water, the Sonoma County Health Department and the City of Healdsburg Water Department are issuing a boil water notice for portions of...
