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On July 23 Healdsburg Police Officer Frank Patane made a suspected fentanyl arrest after a traffic stop for a vehicle code violation in Healdsburg.

The Sebastopol City Council is tackling a modest agenda this week. The council is meeting virtually Tuesday night, Aug. 4 at 6 p.m. You can watch it live, or watch a recording of it after the meeting occurs.  

The Aug. 4 meeting of the Windsor Unified School District Board of Trustees only has one major agenda item, but it is a critical one — the 45-day revise of their annual budget.

Following the board of trustees’ approval at a special board meeting on July 27, Windsor Unified School District Superintendent Jeremy Decker sent out a letter detailing the decision made about re-opening of schools and a revised calendar for the 2020-21 school year.

A lively group of marchers with musical instruments, shakers and hand-made signs made their way down Center and Johnson Streets Friday evening, July 31, celebrating the progress and diversity that’s come from sustained civil disobedience and calling for further equality and justice for George Floyd and the deaths of many other Black, Indigenous and people of color at the hands of law enforcement.

The Healdsburg City Council has a light agenda for their next meeting on Monday, Aug. 3, their return to regular meetings following a brief recess in July.

Healdsburg local Hollie Clausen and Healdsburg student youth activist Izabel Soto led a boisterous crowd in a musical march down Center Street and up Johnson Street to the Fitch Mountain Elementary School campus on Friday night, July 31, in a show of support for equality and justice for Black, Indigenous and people of color in light of the death of George Floyd and other deaths at the hands of police officers.

After years of searching and negotiating to find a strategic partner, the board of directors that oversee the Healdsburg District Hospital this week voted to go forward with final agreements with NorCal Health Connect, an affiliate of Providence St. Joseph Health. Pending a vote by the taxpayer-owners of the Northern Sonoma County Healthcare District (NSCHD) in November, ownership and management of the hospital will change and be final.

At the school board’s regular meeting on July 30, West Side School Principal and West Side Union School District Superintendent Kris Menlove revealed the district’s distance learning plans for the 2020-21 school year, stating that distance learning will look quite different this fall and will have a more rigorous program than what was implemented last year.