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The Cloverdale City Council selected its mayor and vice mayor for the upcoming year, with 2021 Vice Mayor Todd Lands selected as mayor and Councilmember Gus Wolter as vice mayor.

The Cloverdale Planning Commission is set to hold a public hearing for a proposed housing development on Asti Road Tuesday night, Jan. 11. The meeting begins at 6:30 p.m. and will be held both at the Cloverdale Performing Arts Center and online via Zoom. The agenda for the meeting, which includes numerous attachments about the project, can be found here.

In Sebastopol, peace can be found in more than just Peacetown concerts — it can also be found around town in a select number of peace poles, which sit in front of some homes or downtown, in front of Screamin’ Mimis. A new peace pole was recently installed in front of a house on Florence Avenue.

In a story straight out of the pages of some hard-boiled crime novel (or perhaps even a James Bond film) the theft of a rare 1954 Morgan Coupe in Sonoma has led to SWAT action and a felony arrest in Windsor.

Suspect fled from car, claimed to have concealed

Twenty years ago Al and Liz Loebel moved to Healdsburg and fell in love, not with each other because that had already happened. They fell in love with Healdsburg — and Healdsburg fell in love with them. They volunteered all over the place. Al became the unofficial mayor of his neighborhood. Liz became a Master Gardener and joined the local chapter of the A.A.U.W. and they both forgot they were supposed to be retired.

More and more of everyday life is getting pushed onto the internet and “in the cloud.” And now the issue of school accountability, standardized testing and local school performance can be found there too, with a powerful new search tool called the California School Dashboard.