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The city of Healdsburg is opening up two cooling centers this week. Both centers — located at the Healdsburg City Hall council chamber (401 Grove St.) and at the senior center (133 Matheson St.) — will be open from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. from Monday, Aug. 17 to Wednesday, Aug. 19

The county of Sonoma recently enhanced its specificity in reported COVID-19 case data, now letting people see the breakdown of where cases are occurring, as well as how many active cases are in each county ZIP code. To view the county’s coronavirus data portal, click here.

The county of Sonoma recently enhanced its specificity in reported COVID-19 case data, now letting people see the breakdown of where cases are occurring, as well as how many active cases are in each county ZIP code. To view the county’s coronavirus data portal, click here.

The county of Sonoma recently enhanced its specificity in reported COVID-19 case data, now letting people see the breakdown of where cases are occurring, as well as how many active cases are in each county ZIP code. To view the county’s coronavirus data portal, click here.

While the agenda is a relatively short one for the upcoming Aug. 17 Healdsburg City Council meeting, there are a few items of interest such as discussing and approving updates to the city goals, a consideration to implement a temporary increase in the electric low-income discount and a consideration to adopt a resolution approving income-qualified energy efficiency programs.

The agenda for the Aug. 18 meeting of the Windsor Unified School District Board of Trustees is largely populated by updates, and those updates are primarily related to changes wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Annual homeless count delayed as Grand Jury report is released

The Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office arrested a man for attempted murder in Sebastopol on Thursday, Aug. 13. James Freeman, 37, of Sonoma, was arrested following a stabbing on 4500 block of Bartleson Road.

The Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office (SCSO) announced Saturday afternoon, Aug. 15, that earlier in the day a man died while in custody in Guerneville.

The local Sonoma County coast is popular during these days of the COVID-19 pandemic when many people are seeking a respite from too much sheltering-in-place. Not all the coastal scenes are crowded beaches or closed parking lots. There are also some scenes that depict “life as normal.”