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Largest percentage of positive COVID-19 cases are Latinx

Sonoma West Publishers was among the first recipients of a COVID-19 related newsroom assistance grant from the Google News Initiative Emergency Relief Fund. More than 12,000 news organizations applied for an undisclosed number and amount of the grants

Sonoma County residents are accustomed to the risks that wildfires pose. Earlier this year, we experienced a wildfire that forced residents into the all-too-familiar position of standing by for a potential evacuation order. This is why it is so imperative that proposed development projects anticipate strained evacuation routes before bringing more congestion to our roads. The Koi Nation’s proposal to construct the Shiloh Resort and Casino ignores this responsibility.

The Windsor-to-Geyserville Highway 101 paving project is on schedule, according to Caltrans, but unexpected field conditions have caused the cost to rise.

Healdsburg local Hollie Clausen and Healdsburg student youth activist Izabel Soto led a boisterous crowd in a musical march down Center Street and up Johnson Street to the Fitch Mountain Elementary School campus on Friday night, July 31, in a show of support for equality and justice for Black, Indigenous and people of color in light of the death of George Floyd and other deaths at the hands of police officers.

An incident reported on the evening of Sept. 5 by the Healdsburg Police Department in their weekly media bulletin may have been related to a game of “Fugitive,” played by high school students in the neighborhoods between the Community Center and Badger Park. “In short, students chase each other around town and ‘shoot’ each other with a variety of devices including Airsoft guns and Orbeez pellets,” wrote the Principal.

At their Aug. 18 meeting, the Windsor Unified School District Board of had a mercifully short, but important, agenda, relating to the impact of COVID-19 on the district. The meeting was conducted with particular alacrity as the board, who were all on Zoom, raced the predicted rolling blackouts from the heatwave. They managed to get all official business done before the blackouts removed their quorum.

Tuesday, 11:38pm The RP said she was followed by an unknown vehicle when she entered Healdsburg. She was advised to drive to the Healdsburg Police Department on Center Street. The other vehicle drove by the RP at the police department and turned around...

The Healdsburg City Council went over a slew of items before it breaks for the month of July.