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The Healdsburg Tourism Improvement District (HTID) voted Nov. 21 to contribute $100,000 to the Healdsburg Chamber of Commerce’s post-fire recovery campaign. The chamber is leading efforts to support local businesses that have suffered due to closures and cancelations during the fire and to counter misinformation regionally and nationally that could lead to residual losses in the coming months.

At the June 16 meeting on the Windsor Town Council, the seated council members passed three resolutions approving the budget for Fiscal Years (FY) 2021-22 and 2022-23, adopting the Capital Improvement Program (CIP) for Fiscal Years 2021-26 and adopting a resolution acknowledging receipt and use of the Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds from the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) of 2021.

12:08pm An accident occurred on East Street at Plaza Street. The RP indicated she pulled out of a construction site and hit another vehicle or the other vehicle hit her. The accident was never determined to be a hit and run, and there was no visible damage to the RP’s vehicle. An officer responded and took a report.  

The Healdsburg City Council has a big agenda on tap for its next meeting on Feb. 7. The council will consider approving recommended allocations for Community Response Grants and will receive a presentation from the Acosta Latino Learning Partnership, the recommended diversity, equity and inclusion city consultant.

About five months after boutique Healdsburg wine brands Truett Hurst and VML went on the market, they found a buyer: the same man who founded them back in 2008. Phil Hurst sold his beloved brands to a large, Washington-based company called Precept Wine & Spirits...

The Greater Farallones National Marine Sanctuary announced last week that it’s looking for applicants to fill three seats on its Sanctuary Advisory Council (SAC) — one for a primary education seat, one for an alternate education seat and another for its community-at-large Sonoma/Mendocino seat. Applications are due by 11:59 p.m. on Aug. 17. 

Carla Howell, Healdsburg Chamber of Commerce’s executive director for the last seven years, has announced her retirement plans.

COVID-19, a novel strain from the family of coronaviruses, is now in Sonoma County, but the impacts are still uncertain, and the county has declared a local health emergency to prepare for the worst.

On June 8, SoCoNews sat down virtually with new West Side School Principal and Superintendent Rima Meechan for a Q&A and to learn about her new role.