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At its meeting on Wednesday, Oct. 13, the Cloverdale City Council will be tackling a two-item regular agenda, one item of which will be to discuss how the council wants to spend the funds it received from the federal government as part of the American Rescue Plan Act. The second is to consider adopting a resolution urging the Surface Transportation Board to reject an application for the North Coast Rail Company to acquire and rehabilitate the North Coast Rail Authority’s rail line between Eureka and Willits. The meeting, which will be held at 6 p.m., will be held both over Zoom and in person at the Cloverdale Performing Arts Center.

Cloverdale’s middle schoolers headed back to Washington School this week. According to the school’s website, fifth, seventh and eighth graders will be attending class in-person on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. Sixth-grade students are split up into two cohorts, with one group attending class in person on Mondays and Thursdays and the other attending on Tuesdays and Fridays. All students will be attending class via online instruction on Wednesdays, which will allow time for classrooms to be extensively cleaned.

No one is immune to the sharp eyes and instincts of the mobile Code Enforcement officers, who scour the town for scofflaws year-round. Plus a week of dispatch reports from Healdsburg Police...

Hello, we are the second-grade Writing Club, and this is our first story. It is about Principal [Jeffrey] Franey and his rose-hair tarantula named Taranty. You pronounce it TA-RANCH-Y.

City Council votes against reinstatement The Healdsburg City Council decided Tuesday night to continue limiting public comment to in-person and written submissions, declining to reinstate live remote participation via Zoom after a detailed review of legal, operational and security concerns. “After a thorough and wide-ranging discussion,...

If last Monday’s city council meeting demonstrated anything about Healdsburg’s housing issues, it was that housing is complicated. Whatever variable you address – land availability, zoning, building regulations, deed restrictions, capital and financing options, unit size, unit price, or AMI (area median income), each is connected to the others.

The debate about whether the United States should have fought in World War I is all but forgotten today. Although the war began in August 1914, a broad coalition of antiwar forces tried to stop our country from entering the war — and had succeeded until April 1917 when President Wilson asked Congress to declare war on Germany. Even fewer remember that a Healdsburg pioneer became a leading peace activist in the west during the first World War.

Healdsburg residents have grown used to the traffic control signs on both Matheson Street and Powell Avenue that warn that the road ahead, at 1846 North Fitch Mountain Rd., is closed and not expected to open until the end of September. Is it on track to open on time?