CUSD board heading back to in-person meetings Wednesday
For the first time in nearly a year and a half, the Cloverdale Unified School District (CUSD) Board of Trustees is scheduled to meet in person at the Cloverdale High School Maker Space on Wednesday, July 21. The meeting is slated to begin at 6 p.m., following the completion of the board’s closed session. The full meeting agenda packet can be viewed here.
Fitch Mountain Park repairs underway
UPDATE: The Healdsburg Community Services Department announced yesterday afternoon, Sunday, April 14, that Fitch Mountain Park and Open Space Preserve is now open.
Spring Greening
SPRING GREENING — Recent warming and longer days have begun to awaken the region's grapevines at a time in mid-March considered "normal" by local growers. Growers now must prepare for early spring frost warnings when too cold nights can do damage to the young green shoots. Most growers utilize overhead sprinklers to coat the buds with a protective ice jacket while others turn on large wind machines to disturb the inversion layer of colder air.
Rising seas, worsening wildfires endanger California parks
Of all the existential threats California parks face — dwindling budgets, more visitors and costly, long-deferred maintenance — now comes a climate-driven conundrum: When is a park no longer a park? When its namesake trees disappear in a barrage of lightning strikes? When its very land is washed away by ever-rising seas?
Cloverdale Family Apartments now home to a piano
Cloverdale mayor Marta Cruz describes the community room in the Cloverdale Family Apartments as the “center of activities” for the city’s Latino community. Over the years, it’s served as the site of Cesar Chavez Day celebrations, back-to-school book drives and even a cooling center for the community’s elders. Now, it’s a space for the fine arts, thanks to its newest addition — a piano.
