More people looking for furry friends amid COVID
Some shelters are seeing more animal adoptions Â
Healdsburg Jazz offering virtual music activities and classes
Free classes for all ages available onlineÂ
Healdsburg Boy Scout donates hand sanitizer to local homeless organizations
Healdsburg Troop 21 Boy Scout Ben Stevens recently collected hand sanitizer donations from local distillers and donated between 300 to 400 bottles of hand sanitizer to Reach for Home, Catholic Charities and the Redwood Gospel Mission.
Routine traffic stops ends in vehicle pursuit
Suspect was arrested for evading, possession of ammunition
Reach For Home to go forward minus founding executive
Colleen Carmichael to seek new calling in trauma teachings and therapy
Local schools that planned to reopen now pivoting toward distance learning
Schools that were moving toward a full return to in-class instruction this fall — such as the small, rural Alexander Valley School and private K-8 school, The Healdsburg School — are now scrambling to pivot toward a full distance learning model following new guidance recently by Gov. Gavin Newsom that requires schools in counties that are on the state’s coronavirus watch list to start the year in remote learning.
Neighborhood pole purveys peace
In Sebastopol, peace can be found in more than just Peacetown concerts — it can also be found around town in a select number of peace poles, which sit in front of some homes or downtown, in front of Screamin’ Mimis. A new peace pole was recently installed in front of a house on Florence Avenue.
Tree limb loss blocks Elphick Road
On Thursday afternoon, July 16, a large oak tree lost a large limb in the 7300 block of Elphick Road in Sebastopol.
Rooms set aside at Dry Creek Inn for COVID alternate care site
A block of 60 rooms at the Best Western Dry Creek Inn are being used for an Alternate Care Site (ACS) for people who are recovering from COVID-19 and need a place to safely isolate away from their household and for those who may have been exposed to the virus and are waiting on test results.
Sebastopol’s council race taking shape
Incumbents Hinton, Carnacchi joined by small field of challengers