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To the city council

PIZZA PIE — The Healdsburg Senior Center celebrated pizza on Feb. 3 with a blind pizza taste test of local pizzas in honor of National Pizza Day (yes there is a day to celebrate the love of pizza). Participants rated pizzas based on crust, sauce, toppings, appearance and flavor.

Wildland firefighters don’t admit to fearing much, but lightning is one terror that even the most experienced veterans say they hope to never encounter.

While the overall crime rate in Healdsburg is going down, 2021 did see a steep increase in cases related to individuals experiencing homelessness, according to a new report from the Healdsburg Police Department.

In the early morning hours of Tuesday, June 15, a fatal crash occurred on Highway 128 just east of Chalk Hill Road.

The Friends of the Sebastopol Library book sale is back, charging a buck per book on Sunday, March 6 from 10 a.m. to 4.p.m. Vice President Walt Frazer said it’s been two years since the last book sale was canceled in March 2020, gulped down with the rest of public life by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Over the past summer, Cloverdale’s Good Shepherd Episcopal Church began replacing all of the glass windows in the church with stained-glass ones — each window a reflection of the beauty surrounding Cloverdale. One window, located in the front entrance of the church, has a slightly different story — it was found in a Healdsburg antique shop and donated to the church by Gene and Carolyn Marcinkowski after they realized that it would be a perfect fit for the space.

Over the next two weeks, Sonoma West Times & News will be rehashing 2020 in west county. We’ll be reviewing the biggest events in the local schools, as well as covering topics such as COVID-19, health care, homelessness and more.