Police Log, Jan. 1 – 7, 2024
The weekly mix of violations including driving under the influence, possession of drugs, hit-and-run accident, grand theft, vandalism, and a burglary in Healdsburg.
Burn permit suspension lifted
Effective Monday, Nov. 23 at 8 a.m. the burn permit suspension in Sonoma, Lake, Napa and Solano counties will be lifted. CalFire Sonoma Lake Napa Unit Chief Shana Jones is formally canceling the burn permit suspension and advises those possessing valid CalFire and air quality burn permits can now resume burning on permissible burn days.
A Natural Wonder Goes on the Market
On Sept. 14, 1915, Ollie Bockee (pronounced “bouquet”), the new owner of over 500 acres in Calistoga, was charged with killing a dog on her property.
As the Press Democrat wrote of the event at the time, Bockee was “greatly annoyed by hunters’ cunning stock...
Highlights from the Sonoma County Coronavirus Town Hall
The Sonoma County Coronavirus Town Hall, held on March 11, brought together the Chairperson of the Board of Supervisors Susan Gorin, interim Public Health Officer Dr. Sundari Mase and Christopher Godley, director of the Sonoma County Department of Emergency Management. The town hall was broadcast by KRCB Public Media and facilitated by Steve Mencher, KRCB’s news director. It featured questions gathered by email and phone from Sonoma County citizens.
Snapshot: Hetch Hetchy Valley
Yosemite Valley is known to many. But few know there was, and is, a second valley of extraordinary beauty in Yosemite National Park. It’s called the Valley of the Hetch Hetchy...
Cloverdale welcomes its smallest schoolhouse library
Little Free Library launches at the corner of Kleiser Park
Sebastopol City Council gives RV village the go-ahead
Things are looking up for people living tenuously in their RVs on Morris Street who may move into the RV park village program approved Tuesday, Dec. 7 by the Sebastopol City Council.
UPDATE: Teachers win their strike against high school district
UPDATE: Nov. 15, 4:40 p.m. West Sonoma County Teacher’s Association won its strike against the West Sonoma County Union High School District, bringing home the 12% increase over three years, they'd been asking for for months. Details HERE.
