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The city of Sebastopol is asking folks in the community to write in and report any problems they see with pavement in the city limits. The pavement survey hotline, which folks can access by calling 707-634-5100 or by emailing [email protected], will be open through Sept. 13.

Workshops meant to receive feedback and community input for the Multi-Family Residential Objective Design Standards project

The Sonoma County Office of Education (SCOE) is launching a Technology Support Fund intended to help school districts and families purchase the mobile hotspots, prepaid data plans, computers and subscriptions to online learning plans needed to access and deliver distance learning this year. 

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is reminding Sonoma County farmers and ranchers that disaster assistance and recovery programs are available through the Farm Service Agency (FSA).

Good job on passing the tobacco ordinance

According to a statement from the Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office, the helicopter Henry-1 rescued a National Guardsman who had been assigned to the firefighting effort. The Guardsman fell and suffered a serious leg injury.

The League of Women Voters has had to make some changes to its normal set of election year activities in the wake of the pandemic.

While fire crews, dozers, hand crews and strike teams worked on building lines to contain the Walbridge Fire to prevent it from coming down to Korbel, Hacienda and other river communities, Bobby Payne was checking on homes in the lower Russian River area and safeguarding properties and hard to reach areas with retardant.

Updated Wednesday, Sept. 2 at 7 p.m. —

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