Green Dog of the Week Queenie!
Queenie is a beautiful 8-year-old Queensland Blue Heeler/Australian Cattle Dog who, due to changes in the family, was returned to Green Dog Rescue Project recently.
Social distancing egg hunts
Through April 5, homes around Windsor will take part in a “social distance” egg hunt. Based on the recent national trend of a virtual “bear hunt” wherein people put teddy bears in the their front windows for children to spot as they walk by in neighborhoods during shut downs. With local egg hunts being cancelled left and right, the virtual version is based on a similar concept. Local homes are encouraged to create artwork eggs of any sort and place them in their windows for kids to spot.
Quarantine block parties break out around Sebastopol
Different neighborhoods are reacting differently to the shelter-in-place order. Some are silent and still with all the residents tucked away in their houses. Others are, well, rocking out.
Virus takes a toll on the farmers market
Sebastopol Farmers Market manager Carla Rosin is torn about whether to keep the farmers market open as the region plunges deeper into the coronavirus pandemic.
Shelter in place extended to May 3
Sonoma County Health Officer Dr. Sundari Mase announced Tuesday evening, March 31, that the Sonoma County shelter in place order will be extended until May 3, at 11:59 p.m.
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.
Police practice ‘educational’ enforcement of shelter in place
As Sonoma County begins to hit the two-week mark of sheltering in place, local jurisdictions are taking an educational approach to enforcement.
Supervisors suspend evictions
In a unanimous vote Tuesday afternoon, March 24, the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors approved an urgency ordinance that suspends the eviction of tenants for failing to pay rent. The ordinance applies to cases in which a tenant’s failure to pay rent is a result of the COVID-19 pandemic in that they’ve lost income or have had to pay for substantial medical needs as a result of the outbreak.
