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The city of Sebastopol approved the adoption of the 2020-21 budget at the Oct. 20 Sebastopol City Council meeting. Last week, on Oct. 14, an entire special meeting of the council was devoted to a consideration of a budget.

After a tense, hour-long debate that called into question the equality of hybrid meetings for those who are unvaccinated, the Healdsburg City Council voted 4-1 to approve hybrid meetings and the city’s proof of vaccination requirement for attending in-person meetings.

Progressive Urgent Care Sebastopol broke its 20-month closure Friday, Nov. 12, opening its doors around the corner from Sonoma Specialty Hospital (SSH) on Palm Avenue. The facility previously located inside SSH closed when COVID-19 hit locally in March 2020.

While several homes on Mill Creek Road and Wallace Creek could not be saved, some were, and Healdsburg Fire Marshal/Division Chief Linda Collister was determined Sunday afternoon to make sure the homes that fire crews worked so hard to save would not reignite from leftover hotspots or smoldering trees. 

On Feb. 28, less than a week from the Tribune publication date, the local public health emergency that has been in place since March 2, 2020 to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic will be lifted, as Sonoma County Health Officer Dr. Sundari Mase announced...

On March 22, the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to allocate $950,000 in capital funds for the L&M Village in Healdsburg and $600,000 for The Studios at Montero in Petaluma, both of which are Project Homekey sites. The funding commitment ensures that the two sites will secure additional matching allocations from the State of California to assist with funding gaps.

Editor's note: Steve Levenberg of Sebastopol World Friends recently spoke with people in Chyhyryn, Ukraine, one of Sebastopol's sister cities, about Ukraine-Russia tensions. His submitted article is below.

There wasn’t a banger in sight at the 22nd Annual Russian River Car Show in Monte Rio.