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A community art event and vigil was held in Sebastopol's Plaza Sunday night, July 5. 

County remains off the governor’s watch list for now

It was a “drive-by” scene of patriotism this Fourth of July in Healdsburg as the Healdsburg Rotary Club Sunrise and city of Healdsburg sponsored a drive-thru event to replace their usual family party in the Healdsburg Plaza.

The Sebastopol City Council is meeting virtually Tuesday night, July 7 at 6 p.m. You can watch it live, or watch a recording of it after the meeting occurs. 

At a webinar hosted by Priscilla Abercrombie from Citizens Organized to Prepare for Emergencies (COPE) Fitch Mountain and fourth district supervisor James Gore, individuals from across the county’s emergency preparedness and response sectors came together to provide information on the upcoming fire season and how to be ready.

Since Kaboom! isn't happening this year, we want to know — how will you be celebrating Independence Day? 

The exterior walls of the Sebastopol Library and City Hall were tagged with several pieces of graffiti last Wednesday, July 1, or early Thursday morning. Most of the more offensive tags were removed but one “BLM” spray painted tag was still visible Thursday.

The Healdsburg Unified School District, with full support from the school board of trustees, is planning to explore how to create and implement a districtwide ethnic studies program for all grade levels. The creation of a new curriculum can take years, however, the process will soon kick off with a preliminary meeting with the Acosta Educational Partnership, a group that works with local schools to aid in the process of establishing ethnic studies, and with community outreach.

EDITOR’S NOTE: All people named are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.

Many people agree that Sebastopol is “unique” in the many ways they choose to define the open-minded community with traditional small town traditions and evolving progressive tendencies. What a recent Business Survey Report found out is the city is not so unique when comparing current economic challenges and the impacts of external forces like online shopping and non-local large corporation competition. The threats to small town retail and local economic vitality are being repeated across the country — and existed before the current COVID-19 pandemic.