Healdsburg Police and Sheriff Logs, Nov. 12 – 18
The following are excerpted from the log entries of the Sonoma County Sheriff's Department for the Healdsburg area.
Sebastopol Rotary Sunrise holding silent auction for the Russian Riverkeepers’ Clean Team
Rotary Club of Sebastopol Sunrise is doing a silent auction, called the Water and Life Auction, from May 2 through May 16 to raise money for the Russian Riverkeepers’ Clean Team and their work keeping the Russian River and its tributaries clean and healthy.
Washington School Students of the Month: September
To help celebrate Cloverdale's local students, we'd like to recognize all of the kids from Washington Middle School who were named Student of the Month for the September.
Yet Another ‘Outstanding Healdsburg Development Opportunity’
The city of Healdsburg is only just beginning to craft a South Entry Area Plan, a process that is expected to cost about $1.5 million. Although the plan is expected to get underway in 2024, City Manager Jeff Kay stressed that it is in its earliest stages.
Teen poets power Laguna High School literary magazine
Keep your hand moving and cross nothing out, forget about spelling, punctuation and grammar for now, remember to lose control and do not even try to make sense. According to 16-year-old Julia Wright, these are the fundamentals of creative writing at the heart of Laguna High School’s literary magazine.
City budget review looks at cuts, changes
Healdsburg City Council and the city’s administrative services and finance director, Heather Ippoliti, have started to review the city’s budget for the next fiscal cycle. The council met several times last week in both closed and open session meetings to discuss the city’s biennial budget for 2020-21 and 2021-22 and the necessary budget changes and cuts that will need to be implemented to soften the blow from the COVID-19 related economic recession.
Post-prohibition: Where can I get high now?
On Jan. 1 something changed in the air in Sonoma County. While some communities welcomed the first official day of adult-use cannabis legalization, not everyone was “waking and baking” that morning.
Task force formed to battle opioid addiction
‘Confronting the Opioid Epidemic’ event at Raven Oct. 3
Don’t forget to vote! Primary voting ends 8pm Tuesday
The entire first page of the ballot lists 61 candidates for governor; however only the top two vote-getters will advance to the general election in November (unless 50% or more choose a particular candidate, which seems unlikely).
Arts & Entertainment
Stage face-off: Revenge vs. rivalry
Local audiences seeking a solid presentation of an American theatrical classic have two very diverse options right now. The Raven Performing Arts Theater hosts Stephen Sondheim’s massive macabre musical, "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street," while The 222 offers Sam Shepard’s more intimate fraternal drama, "True West." Both run in Healdsburg through Nov. 8.
