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The Cloverdale Arts Alliance announced the lineup for Friday Night Live (FNL) this week. Cloverdale’s summer concert series is coming back with an amended schedule this year — the first FNL will be on July 2 and the season will wrap on Oct. 1.

In an announcement sent to SoCoNews, United Church of Cloverdale announced the installation of its new pastor, Reverend Jen Collins, in a ceremony scheduled for June 12 at 10 a.m. 

Thank you, Burke

Hello, Healdsburg. The start of summer means long, light-filled days, family vacations and hot weather. It also heralds the advent of another wildfire season and with the current drought situation, it’s even more dry than usual. Here’s what we’re doing to help our community — and here’s what you can do — to prepare for disasters such as wildfires.

The following snippets of history are drawn from the pages of the Healdsburg Tribune, the Healdsburg Enterprise and the Sotoyome Scimitar, and are prepared by the volunteers at the Healdsburg Museum & Historical Society. Admission is always free at the museum, open Wednesday through Sunday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Fiona Affronti, a senior at Healdsburg High School (HHS), has accomplished more than what many students in her grade have in their four years of high school — and at the core of her involvement in various extracurricular activities is an interest in leadership. This is especially seen in her involvement in the school’s Future Farmers of America (FFA) program, which is built with the mission of making “a positive difference in the lives of students by developing their potential for premier leadership, personal growth and career success through agricultural education.”

The 14th annual Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival (SDFF) presents the human condition this week, streaming films from Sonoma County and all corners of the globe. This is the festival’s second year online in a row due to the pandemic.

California’s grand reopening day is almost here, but it comes with a few asterisks. 

In the next year, the Analy and El Molino high schools are expected to consolidate into one school. The consolidation plan for the West Sonoma County Union High School District (WSCUHSD) moves El Molino to the Analy campus in Sebastopol, and Laguna High School to El Molino’s campus in Forestville. While years of declining student enrollment and financial instability created the conditions for this decision to be made, many students and community members felt like their voices were not sufficiently heard by the school board.

We keep getting told by national and so-called social media that we are living in very divisive times with an America that seems split right down the middle. We get messages and news feeds that render our nation as being full of right and leftist political extremists, mass murderers, lots of bad cops, greedy corporations, sham politicians and a very small sliver of families and people just trying to get by, stay out of the way and be left alone.