Country Summer postponed to 2021, virtual event planned for June
Country Summer, Northern California’s biggest country music festival has been postponed until June 25 to 27, 2021. Country Summer was meant to take place in June 2020, but when California was hit hard by COVID-19, the annual three-day event was rescheduled for Oct. 23 to 25, 2020.
Fire season is coming — here’s how to be ready
At a fire resiliency webinar put on by the Sonoma County Farm Bureau, Cyndi Foreman, fire prevention officer for Sonoma County Fire District, gave a presentation about preparing your home for fire season and also how to prepare for and properly execute an evacuation.
Corazón to hold community conversation on race
The Healdsburg community, including Latinx Spanish speakers, will have an opportunity to discuss their experiences, questions and ideas for community progress in equality at a Corazón Coversacion Comunitaria (Community Conversation) via Zoom and Facebook event set for June 16 at 6 p.m.
Budget comes due at June 16 WUSD meeting
It’s a packed agenda at the June 16 meeting of the Windsor Unified School District Board of Trustees, and no one will be busier than chief business officer Lois Standring, who will be leading the items related to all the budget woes.Â
Two brothers found deceased in Windsor home
According to a statement from the Sonoma County Sheriff’s Department, at 7:45 a.m. on Monday, June 15, deputies and detectives were dispatched to the 9000 block of Starr Road in Windsor.
District proposing cuts for upcoming school year
The Healdsburg Unified School District is looking for ways to save money next year in response to the economic downturn from the COVID-19 pandemic. The district is proposing certain cuts such as leaving several vacant positions unoccupied, as well as reducing professional development, cutting the freshman seminar class for the year and a 20% reduction to individual school site budgets, among others. The suggested cuts include the layoff of only one employee, a special education bus driver.
Police policy discussion, street closure consideration set for next council meeting
The Healdsburg City Council has a packed agenda for their meeting on June 15.
Ukiah man arrested for hate crime in Bodega Bay
On Saturday, June 13, Sonoma County deputies working together with Ukiah Police Department arrested 43-year-old Anthony Pelfrey of Ukiah for being a felon in possession of pepper spray, illegal use of pepper spray and a hate crime.
SLIDESHOW: Analy student organizes Sebastopol’s biggest BLM protest
On Thursday, June 11, Dezi Rae Kai, a 17-year-old student at Analy High School, organized the largest protest yet to happen in Sebastopol over the death of George Floyd and the issue of police violence against black Americans.
