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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.

The winners of the West Sonoma County Union School District board election are

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.

With all precinct votes tallied and an unknown number of mail-in ballots left to count, the two open Cloverdale City Council seats are projected to go to Todd Lands and incumbent Melanie Bagby.

But many ballots still outstanding; final count not due until Dec. 3

Incumbent Neysa Hinton has slim lead over Evert Fernandez for second seat

Measure O — the Sonoma County quarter-cent sales tax proposed to fund mental health and addiction services and facilities for children, adults, seniors, veterans and those experiencing homelessness — appears to be passing as of Wednesday morning, Nov. 4.

Voters endorse additional law enforcement oversight

With 73% of precincts reporting as of Wednesday morning, hospital sale measure has 85% ‘yes’ votes

With 72.9% of precincts reporting, Measure DD, the extension of the Sonoma County Transportation Authority Sales Tax, appears to be cruising to an easy victory, with 139,487 (71.97%) yes votes and 54,335 (28.03%) no votes.