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Healdsburg High School graduates participated in a drive-thru graduation ceremony on Friday morning, June 5. Graduates drove up to a stage in the HHS parking lot, picked up their diplomas and a gift bag, and bid their senior year farewell. 

Sonoma County Health Officer Dr. Sundari Mase announced Friday that starting Saturday, June 6, in-person faith-based services, indoor retail shopping and dining, hair salons and barbershops will be allowed to reopen in Sonoma County with mitigation measures in place such as facial coverings and social distancing.

Community members took to the streets Thursday to protest the death of George Floyd

El Molino held its first-ever drive-thru/walk-up graduation on June 4. Families piloted gaily decorated cars on to the campus and wound their way out to the track. Graduates jumped out of the cars and walked up onto the graduation stage to get their diplomas, greeted by principal Matt Dunkle in a mask. 

A parade was held for Washington School eighth graders Thursday night, June 4, to help celebrate promoting students' who are on their way to high school. Parents drove students down North Cloverdale Boulevard as families and loved ones cheered them on. 

Sonoma County Regional Parks is finding new ways to engage with folks during the COVID-19 pandemic, and on May 29 they offered a free webinar on fire ecology, the study of how environments change and adapt after a large wildfire event. While wildfires leaves burn...

On Wednesday, June 3, 200 people converged on the intersection of Highway 12 and Main Street in downtown Sebastopol to protest the death of George Floyd at the hands of the Minneapolis Police. The protest was organized by Jonah and Lily Balakhaneh and was designed...

Analy High School wrapped up its first drive-thru/walk-thru graduations today. Families decorated their cars, drove to the front of the school and watched as their graduates walked up to pick up their diplomas from a safely distanced portion of assembled staff.

There were plenty of surprises at the Palm Drive Health Care District Board meeting last night. The biggest surprise was that the two hot button issues that most of the public had shown up to hear about — the setting of the tax rate for next year and the fate of the Gravenstein Health Action Chapter — had been removed from the agenda during a 5-minute open session earlier that day, when no members of the public were present.

Jefferson Elementary teachers and staff drove around Cloverdale for a parade Wednesday morning, June 3. The car parade was a sunny-day sendoff for Jefferson students, who start summer break this week.