Sebastopol Kiwanis opening applications for school grants
Despite canceling its July fireworks and music festival fundraisers this year, the Sebastopol Kiwanis Club has raised money to help fund grants for local students, teachers and school administrators.
State mandates emergency workplace COVID-19 protections, less crowding for guest farmworkers
California’s businesses must follow new rules to protect workers from getting coronavirus on the job, while harvesting companies must minimize overcrowding in guest farmworker housing following a California Divide investigation that uncovered rampant coronavirus outbreaks this summer among a low-wage workforce putting fresh produce on America’s kitchen table.
WSCUHSD rejects parcel tax proposal, plans on discussing TOT measure
Editor's note: Despite voting against the parcel tax, the WSCUHSD is set to reconsider the tax during a meeting on Monday night, Nov. 23.
Sonoma County to remain in the purple tier
On Nov. 11, the County of Sonoma submitted a request for tier adjudication with the state of California, adding thousands of COVID-19 tests from commercial labs that had not been entered electronically into the state’s tracking system with the hope that the tests would lower the county’s case rate and test positivity rate and would allow the county to move tiers.
Budget numbers better than anticipated, reach code decision pushed off for further review
Though there were three items on the agenda for the Nov. 18 Windsor Town Council, the meeting began with the report that one of the items, a first reading of a repeal of the town’s all-electric reach code, was being continued to a later date.
New limited stay-at-home order to go into effect Nov. 21
On Nov. 19 the state of California announced it was implementing a “limited stay-at-home order.” This order would restrict activities between 10 p.m. and 5 a.m. in all counties in Tier One/Purple of the state’s Blueprint for a Safer Economy metric. Restricted activities include all nonessential businesses and social gatherings. Restaurants would have to close to all but take-out and delivery by 10 p.m. each night. Essentially, between 10 p.m. and 5 a.m. it would be a return to early March restrictions.
COVID requiring changes to Windsor holiday festivities
Holiday spirit shines on as virtual events replace live ones, but the tree grove is going forward
Gore named California State Association of Counties president
The California State Association of Counties (CSAC), the statewide organization representing all 58 counties, elected Sonoma County Supervisor James Gore to serve as president of the association for 2020-21.
Low-income adults eligible for discount ride on SMART
Sonoma-Marin Area Rail Transit (SMART) announced Thursday that the commuter rail agency would begin participating in the new Clipper START pilot program, allowing lower-income adults aged 19-64 to receive a fare discount of 50% on the SMART system.
