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The West Sonoma County Union High School District (WSCUHSD) board unanimously approved a resolution to order an election in March to levy a three-year annual $48 district parcel tax following a public hearing Friday morning.

The missing path

Windsor Kiwanis, the Rotary Club of Windsor and Santa Tim have been doing an annual food and toy giveaway for years, but like everything else in the pandemic year, things will be different. While local families can still receive toys and food for the holiday, and residents can still donate and volunteer their time to the endeavor, the realities of COVID have changed how it’s going to go.

The Rotary Club Sebastopol Sunrise’s international efforts to provide educational and health services around the world were the focus of an article in the international magazine “Rotary.” The issue focused on activities and projects by Rotary clubs all around the world that have been doing remote, virtual and socially distanced projects.

The Sebastopol Center for the Arts, an esteemed brick-and-mortar venue and resource hub for local artists is thinking creatively to maintain programming and services like countless other organizations now that the pandemic has closed doors far and wide.

The city of Sebastopol heralded its new leaders as the city council unanimously appointed former Vice Mayor Una Glass as the new mayor and Councilmember Sarah Glade Gurney as vice mayor at the Dec. 1 city council meeting. Newly elected Councilmember Diana Rich beamed, taking her virtual seat at the table over Zoom while Neysa Hinton returned to hers and Michael Carnacchi bade the council farewell. 

The Legacy’s Annual Holiday Bazaar is a wonderful Sebastopol tradition and, like everything else this year, it’s a little different because of COVID-19. This year, instead of making a temporary home in a vacant storefront, it’s being held at the spacious, high-ceilinged Community Cultural Center on Morris Street, which will make social distancing easier.

Gov. Gavin Newsom announced a new set of stay-at-home orders and restrictions on Dec. 3, that threaten to significantly impact the holiday season. The new order is based on ICU bed capacity that is narrowing significantly, with cases threatening to overwhelm the healthcare system, and is based on regions rather than counties.

Deadline is Dec. 15, deadline to apply for federal disaster aid is Dec. 16

The Sonoma County Library recently launched a “send our seniors mail” program where folks can send decorated cards, postcards, hand-written messages or even drawings to seniors in local senior-care facilities this holiday season.