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Healdsburg Jazz, a nonprofit that produces year-round jazz performances, an annual festival and education programs about the importance of jazz as the indigenous American art form, announced the appointment of Gina Riner as its new executive director.

It may cost nearly $145 million to build the proposed Russian River bike path from Forestville to the Sonoma Coast, according to estimates in a feasibility study released last week.

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The Town of Windsor is requesting Federal Railroad Administration approval to implement “quiet zones” as the trains approach the station. Routine train horn use at designated crossings will be eliminated between Shiloh Road and the station, except in emergency or safety-critical situations. The hope is that the quiet zones will become effective as early as mid-July, though it will possibly be somewhat later.

Cloverdale’s cannabis businesses are going to see a decrease in city taxes, following a 3-1 vote by the Cloverdale City Council on March 23. The council gave the green light to a resolution that amends the city’s existing blanket cannabis excise tax rate of 4.5% for cannabis businesses in favor of a tiered tax rate that varies tax amount by type of cannabis business.

On Feb. 12 at approximately 4 p.m., Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office (SCSO) deputies responded to a house in Camp Meeker for a reported suicide. Detectives are now investigating the incident as a homicide.

After her husband’s extensive back surgery, Jeanette Zwinger noticed he was starting to act differently. Her husband Richard, an avid flying enthusiast and former Air Force member who lived life with a sense of adventure, began to show cognitive decline after suffering a heart attack a few days after his back surgery. Richard’s “on-the-go, onto-the-next-thing” personality had declined almost into a state of delirium, and his wife was unsure of how she could continue caring for him.