Art installation on new roundabout evokes Earth and the cosmos
Features local stone and interactive LED lights
New year brings changes to how elected officials can engage on social media
California’s Brown Act — a law that outlines a set of rules that elected officials have to follow to ensure that local government business is conducted in open, transparent ways — had a slight facelift at the start of the year, with the addition of rules that address how government officials can or cannot engage with one another on social media.
Drive-thru food drive in Sebastopol on Jan. 18
Food for Thought (FFT) is holding a drive-thru food drive in Sebastopol on Monday, Jan. 18. The food drive is being held at the Sebastopol Grange from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
County regional parks adds new coastal land
At the end of 2020, the Sonoma County Agricultural Preservation and Open Space District (Ag + Open Space) announced that it transferred ownership of Carrington Coast Ranch over to Sonoma County Regional Parks, cementing its future as a public regional park and open space.
State health order halts some non-essential surgeries in select counties
Surgery-related order amendments apply to counties with less than 10% ICU capacity; doesn’t apply to Sonoma County
WaccoBB, west county’s longtime online bulletin board, calls it a day
Faithful readers of WaccoBB’s daily newsletter got a shock on Monday when Barry Chertov, founder and moderator of the venerable online bulletin board, announced that “The time has come to close the WaccoBB.net website.”
The most important housing legislation you’ve never heard of
RHNA allocations are about to skyrocket, what that could mean for local housing and building
Sebastopol man dead after four-vehicle crash on SR-12
George A. Palma, a 32-year-old Sebastopol man died Mon., Jan. 4 in a four-vehicle crash on SR-12, according to the California Highway Patrol (CHP).
