Police tangle with felon in downtown Graton
On April 4 at approximately 4:40 p.m., deputies responded to a call in the 8500 block of Trenton Road in Forestville. The caller reported a man and a woman came to the house earlier in the day making threats. The suspects had just returned, pointed a handgun at the caller, then drove away.
Sebastopol’s Pete Pellini dies
The Pellini family name stood in tall block letters at the center of Sebastopol for almost seven decades, painted over the entrance to the family’s Chevrolet dealership. The name also adorned Little League uniforms, the Ives Park ball field fence and on annual entries...
Holst pushed out at Sebastopol Community Center
Sebastopol Community Cultural Center (SCCC) director Cordelia Holst has been fired from her position as director of the Sebastopol Community Center. The move was taken by a unanimous vote of the community center board.
Newspapers becoming nonprofit
To keep local journalism alive, the owners of this newspaper and three other community newspapers in Sonoma County are transferring their ownership to a new nonprofit created to help the papers compete in a 21st century news market defined by online competition and a flood of information that is often free.
City activates emergency operations center
Early last week, March 24, the city of Healdsburg activated their emergency operations center (EOC) to make sure the city is ready to respond if the COVID-19 situation worsens, or if there is an outbreak in the city.
Hospitals prepare for surge in virus cases
Sonoma County residents are being told to expect a rising wave of COVID-19 infection cases over the coming weeks, while local public health officials and hospitals prepare for the worst. That involves the county’s six acute care hospitals and numerous community health clinics scrambling to find spaces for hundreds of extra patient beds. Inventories of PPDs (personal protection devices), COVID-19 test kits and life-saving ventilators are being assembled. What that future COVID-19 “surge” will look like will depend on hundreds, if not thousands, of individual vantage points.
Pet food donations needed to keep pet pantry stocked
While the Humane Society of Sonoma County is operating at a limited capacity due to the state-wide shelter-in-place order, both the Santa Rosa and Healdsburg shelters are still providing their free pet food pantry for those in need.
Masks get thumbs-up from local docs and sewists
The United States (and Sonoma County) is in the middle of a tectonic opinion shift on the question of face masks. Last week, the controversy centered on the question of who should wear one — just frontline workers like doctors or nurses or everyone who goes out in public — and what masks should be made of? Are cloth masks OK?
