Californians waive labor law for Uber and Lyft, keep cash bail and affirmative action ban: Prop and hot race calls
California’s app-based corporate luminaries such as Uber and Lyft just waged the most expensive state ballot measure campaign in U.S. history — and it paid off big time, allowing those companies to thwart the will of all three branches of California government.Â
Sebastopol Center for the Arts begins distance learning program for kids
Sebastopol Center for the Arts opened its new supervised distance learning program for elementary schoolers inside the cavernous Veterans Memorial Building in downtown Sebastopol on Monday, Nov. 2.
Conversations continue as schools grapple with students falling behind
At the second event bringing together teachers, administrators, superintendents and members of the Sonoma County Office of Education (SCOE) staff, there were no universal — or quick —answers to the struggling grades of county high school students. But that didn’t mean the participants in the convening didn’t take away a lot of ideas to take back to their districts.
Commercial Dungeness season delayed, will open after Thanksgiving
Crab pot gear poses potential harm to migrating whales
WSCUHSD discussing the possibility of parcel tax feasibility survey
Meeting will be held Friday, Nov. 6 at 6 p.m.
Cloverdale Torch Run, Nov. 4
On Wednesday, Nov. 4 the Cloverdale Police Department participated in the Special Olympics Torch Run for Sonoma County law enforcement.Â
Foppoli tests positive for COVID, apologizes after backlash for attending an event
The Nov. 4 meeting of the Windsor town council started off unusually, with an apology from current and projected future mayor, Dominic Foppoli. Foppoli, who looks on track to be Windsor’s first elected mayor (he currently holds the title under the old system of council-nominated mayors), wanted to respond to recent outcry over his decision to attend a town event after a positive COVID test.
Newcomers elected to the WSCUHSD board
The winners of the West Sonoma County Union School District board election are
Registrar doing inventory of ballots, election numbers won’t change until the weekend
County precincts are showing as being 100% reported and the Sonoma County Registrar of Voters’ office is hard at working tallying the remaining ballots from voters who dropped off or mailed in their ballot. To get a better idea of when voters can expect more election numbers to come in, as well as get a better picture of where the registrar’s office is at with ballot counting, we spoke with Sonoma County Registrar of Voters and Clerk-Recorder-Assessor Deva Marie Proto.
