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Kelsey Carreiro, the City of Healdsburg’s emergency manager, previewed a new evacuation zone map to the city council at their Monday meeting, May 1.  The update consolidated the previous 41 evacuation zones to a more manageable 13, and dispenses with the letter system formerly appended...

Last Monday night marked the conclusion of what City Manager Jeff Kay called “a long and really involved journey” in Healdsburg’s civic history, as the City Council voted to approve a new map for selecting council members by district voting, beginning in 2026.

Live music, local foods, plenty of apples for pre-sale only event

Early Tuesday morning, Jan. 19, fire crews contained a 1.8-acre wildfire that broke out near the Geysers McCabe Plant on Monday night around 9:45 p.m. amid a high wind advisory and unseasonably warm temperatures.

One morning in the fall of 2017, Occidental resident Carolyn Sell woke up to an orange sky and a view of the Santa Rosa valley on fire. Realizing how easily fire could spread west to her community, Sell decided, from her vantage point up in the hills, to make sure Occidental would be ready when disaster came.

As people started ringing in the new year, Antonia Garza, a Forestville working mom, law school student and middle school volleyball coach, was contemplating what she wanted to accomplish in 2020 and what improvements could be made at her paralegal business where she does legal document preparation for family law.

COVID-19, a novel strain from the family of coronaviruses, is now in Sonoma County, but the impacts are still uncertain, and the county has declared a local health emergency to prepare for the worst.

A $20 million freeway paving project is making good progress, even as crews start planning for winter rain interruptions.