Training program for young tradespeople available to high school students
The LIME Foundation has partnered with Conservation Corps North Bay (CCNB) in Cotati to offer the Climate Smart Construction Training Program to young adults ages 18-26. The program, a hybrid between The LIME Foundation’s NextGen Trades Academy and workforce training programming offered through CCNB, aims to train and place students in construction careers.
Determining if your trees are fire safe, before and after a fire
Trees and their accompanying undergrowth can be the victims, the drivers and the causes of catastrophic wildfires. At a webinar put on by the Sonoma County Farm Bureau these challenges were outlined and tips were given for homeowners to evaluate their own local plant life to eliminate those trees and plants that might be contributing to fire risk.
WSCUHSD board chooses trustee voting area map for future board elections
The course is all but set for the next decade of board elections now that the West Sonoma County Union High School District (WSCUHSD) trustees have approved a map for the district’s transition to a by-trustee area election system.
Advisory councils look for a way forward
It may have been a defining moment last Saturday when Lower Russian River and Sonoma Coast Municipal Advisory Council (MAC) members all raised their arms in the “circle of joy” yoga position.
Romero out at chamber
Lorene Romero is no longer the president and CEO pf the Windsor Chamber of Commerce, effective April 15.
Foppoli denies any wrongdoing, accuses others, as town convenes meeting to press for his removal
On Saturday night, April 10, Dominic Foppoli released a statement — his first since the beginning of the allegations of sexual assault against him — denying any wrongdoing and in turn pointing the fingers of misdeeds in other directions. He also made it clear he has no plans to resign.
Why is Grata’s chef Eric Foster so grateful?
Having navigated the pandemic and resultant worker shortage, chef Eric Foster’s new Windsor restaurant Grata is approaching the end of a successful — if unusual — first year.
