City Report: Honors to girls team, volunteers
The flurry of civic gratitude concluded with the annual Marie Sparks Volunteer of the Year Award. The annual program was started in 1996 after the death of Marie Sparks, well known and recognized for her volunteer efforts in the community. Sparks is remembered for her passion, persistence and grit, which encouraged many to join her in volunteering.
Five people have filed applications for vacant council seat in Cloverdale
As of Tuesday afternoon, June 1, the city of Cloverdale received five applicants for its vacant Cloverdale City Council seat. According to city clerk Irene Camacho-Werby, Joe Palla, Eric Sanders, Maeta Emmons, Nicole Garcia-Hinchliffe and Jenny Candelaria-Orr filed applications for the seat.
Large tree in plaza comes down in this week’s storm
A large Scarlet Oak, one of a group of three such trees, toppled over in a storm Monday night in the Healdsburg Plaza. The tree reportedly fell around 1 a.m. although social media posts on Facebook suggest 11 p.m.
Winery pulls out of permit appeal
An on-again, off-again rejection and appeal for a proposed 10,000 case winery at 4603 Westside Road is now off and may be permanently scrubbed after it was first filed for zoning and use permits in May 2014 and rejected by the county’s Board of Zoning Adjustments on a 5-0 vote in June 2017.
Parks & Recreation Weighs Names for Saggio Hills Park
Judging from comments from both the public and the commission members itself, there's a clear favorite in the naming of a new Saggio Hills park: Laura Fish Somersal, a Pomo basketweaver thought to be among the last native speakers of both the Pomo and Wappo languages, languages she taught at Sonoma State University and elsewhere.
