Brewing adventure in Cloverdale
A new coffee kiosk, Rockin’ A Adventure Café, opened its drive-up windows to Cloverdale earlier this month. The adventure-themed café is located on South Cloverdale Boulevard in front of Renner Petroleum.
Copperfield’s seeks community’s help to purchase building
Copperfield’s Books is raising money to purchase the building they have rented in downtown Sebastopol for almost four decades.
Patrick Slayter is Sebastopol’s new(ish) mayor for 2020
The Sebastopol City Council chose Councilmember Patrick Slayter as the town’s mayor for 2020 at the city council meeting on Dec. 3.
Healdsburg moves forward with green ordinances
Council votes to go green with 2020 energy reach code, polystyrene foam ban
Car chase ends in death in custody
A Petaluma man, David Glen Ward, 52, was driving through west county in his own car in the early hours of Wednesday, Nov. 27, when he was mistaken for a carjacker and died after a struggle with Sonoma County sheriffs and Sebastopol police.
Winter shelter opens in Guerneville
Guerneville’s winter homeless center opened on a roll this week with its nightly free dinners lined up through the end of March.
Hike the Divide
Forestville thru-hiker makes a film about climate change activism along the Continental Divide
Health district sells hospital
The long and byzantine struggle over Sebastopol’s hospital came to an end this week when the Palm Drive Health Care District sold west county’s only hospital to American Advanced Management Group (AAMG) and Sonoma Specialty Hospital (SSH) for $2 million in cash.
Arts & Entertainment
Multicultural Center takes shape at Abel de Luna
Bursts of color explode from every corner and every angle of the newly repainted Abel de Luna Community Center on the north side of town. Fuchsia, sunflower, marigold, plum and chrysanthemum abut and juxtapose with one another on the many outside walls and columns, as two muralists work on their own visions of Healdsburg.
