Regional healthcare facilities on ‘virus alert’
Prevention information made available; official emergency continues
Legacy lives on at Estrella Library
A fifth grade class filed into the Estrella Library at Fitch Mountain Elementary School on Friday, March 6, and patiently sat down on a cushioned reading corner adorned with star embroidered pillows.
Local schools stress hygiene in light of virus
Amid the growing concerns associated with COVID-19, a novel strain of the corona family of viruses, local Healdsburg schools and surrounding school districts are stepping up cleaning regimens and emphasizing the importance of personal hygiene in an effort to keep students, staff and families healthy.
New management at Main Stage West
Main Stage West, the theater in downtown Sebastopol, held its annual fundraising gala on Saturday, March 7, at the Sebastopol Center for the Arts. Throngs of theater supporters gathered to hear the announcement of the theater’s upcoming season’s plays and to meet its new management team, Keith Baker and Ivy Rose Miller, who will be taking over the management of the theater from John and Elizabeth Craven.
Hotel Sebastopol to break ground later in spring
At its March 3 meeting, the Sebastopol City Council gave Piazza Hospitality, developers of Hotel Sebastopol, an extension on its design review approval, which was due to expire on March 7. Had the council failed to grant the extension, the project would have had to go through the whole design review process all over again — a time-consuming process which might have been a death knell for the project.
A day in the life of a poll worker
“I was supposed to get a mail-in ballot. It never came,” a voter said, stepping up to our table at the polling place in Sebastopol.
Sebastopol Rotary seeks swim class volunteers
The sounds of summer will soon be coming from the direction of Ives Pool, where the Sebastopol Rotary Club will again be teaching local 7 year olds how to swim.
The race to dissolve the Palm Drive district
Frustrated by the health district’s slow pace of dissolution and its continued spending on community health projects, petitioners redouble their efforts
Teaching art across the ages
Sebastopol high school senior Shayla Rose-Brown has always been inspired by her grandmother. Their relationship has had a profound effect on Rose-Brown, but in the last few years she’s become aware of the fact that friendships like this are rare. Her belief that connection across ages is important has led her to take matters into her own hands.
