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ANOTHER WEEKEND OF ART TRAILS — Some 140 artists opened their studios last weekend for the 35th annual Sonoma County Art Trails and will be participating agin this weekend, Oct. 19 and 20. Above, Sebastopol landscape painter Gen Zorich greeted visitors to her studio. All artists have special pieces available for sale and many offer tours and demonstrations of their craft.

The contested union of Analy High School and El Molino High School has a new working name: West County High School.

With the snip of a red ribbon with a pair of giant scissors in August 2016, it was preordained what the first sentence of Healdsburg’s Mel Amato’s obituary would contain, whenever that time would come. Amato was the man who almost singlehandedly saved Healdsburg’s Memorial Bridge from demolition by Caltrans, deploying all of his engineering prowess to repudiate a cadre of Caltrans engineers and prove the historic landmark was worthy of preservation. The Ohio native lived his last two decades in Healdsburg contributing to many community and local historical causes. He died on Nov. 16 at the age of 86.

Remember “Peptoc”? It was a hotline created by two teachers at West Side Elementary in rural Healdsburg nearly three years ago. Anyone who was feeling down could call the hotline at 707-873-7862 to listen to recorded messages of cheer from local elementary-school kids. And it’s still going...

Early on the morning of Sept. 8, Healdsburg Police officers responded to the area of First and Piper streets following a report of a vehicle that had crashed and still had loud music still playing...

There’s a lot of news and circumstances behind Sonoma County’s record-low rate of unemployment, which this week stands at just 2.8 percent. As always, the news is a mix of good and bad.

When you walk into Downtown Bakery and Creamery on Center Street, the scent of warm scones envelops you in a comforting hug and the familiar sound of the bread slicer rings out as locals line up for their morning coffee.

Sonoma County Sheriff’s Deputies arrested a 19-year-old Santa Rosa man after a fight involving a hatchet Wednesday afternoon near the 700 block of Dry Creek Road in Healdsburg.

9/11 — A thoughtful memorial was held at the Cloverdale Fire Protection District on Sept. 11 to pay tribute to the many lives that were lost 18 years ago in the terror attacks at the Twin Towers in New York and at the Pentagon.