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In the nick of time, the City of Sebastopol may have found a place right down the road to relocate the controversial RV encampment along Morris Street as of its Oct. 27 special meeting.

The town of Windsor has two recycling and waste events on tap for October to help residents dispose of their e-waste and mattresses. Social distancing and other COVID measures will be in place for both events.

Bell's Ambulance, which has served north Sonoma County for 60 years, has never put a new ambulance into service without first having it blessed by a priest. Above, Father Sean Rogers of St. John the Baptist Church blessed Bell's new rig Tuesday morning. He later blessed Pamela and Wayne Bell, who run the business founded by their parents. The new ambulance went into service immediately, stationed at the Bell's office in Windsor.

Police departments across Sonoma County participated in the Law Enforcement Torch Run on June 12, when the Torch of Hope was carried through Sonoma County, with Cloverdale, Healdsburg and Windsor Police Departments carrying the torch through north county streets. The torch is being carried on its way to the Special Olympics Northern California Summer Games and its opening ceremony in Davis on June 22.

Cloverdale will have the standalone Veterans Day celebration in north county this year, with a ceremony that’s a departure from what local groups have hosted in previous years.

Friends and family of firefighters, passersby and the curious converged on the new Healdsburg Fire Department Station No. 2 on Saturday, to take a first look at the now-completed building.

New community conversation on racism on Tuesday evening, plus local activists looking for new spot to display art installation on racism

Sonoma West Publishers, the owner of the Healdsburg Tribune, won three awards from the California Journalism Awards, an annual project of the California News Publishers Association.