News

Sonoma County Library will take home a national award for its program, Together at the Table.

UPDATE April 10: State water officials have given Sonoma State University clearance to cancel a Boil Water notice that has been in effect since Monday. The lifting of the notice follows two rounds of testing of the campus water supply. In both cases, the tests showed the university’s water was safe to consume. 

Corazón Healdsburg, a nonprofit serving the community of Healdsburg by bridging racial and economic divides through innovative programs, together with Comité Pochtlán, announced the Carnaval y Féria de Salud event will be held on Sunday, April 7 from 3 to 7:30 p.m. at the Healdsburg Community Center.

Remembrance and Respect—The Wall That Heals, a three-quarter scale replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall in Washington D.C. was on display in Windsor from March 28 to 31. In addition to the wall replica, there was an mobile education center about the war and the memorial as well as the traditional POW/MIA Empty Chair display. On Saturday, March 30, Chief Carlos Basurto led a brief ceremony with speakers that included a Gold Star widow, a reading of names of Sonoma County residents memorialized on the wall (59 in total) followed a 59 second moment of silence to remember them, and then a bagpiper playing Amazing Grace.

A recent records request from Healdsburg Police Department shows that Ryan Howard was fired from the force for distributing marijuana that was in police evidence to a resident that did not have rights to it, and for providing false information to the department in a subsequent report.

The Sonoma County Office of Education (SCOE) has updated the air quality guidelines that school districts developed and released last fall in response to the smoke from the Camp Fire. When thick smoke blanketed the county, individual districts were left scrambling to decide what to...

On Jan. 1, SB 1421 was enacted by the California legislature.  It required the release of reports involving all deputy involved shootings, use of force situations causing great bodily injury, and sustained complaints of dishonesty and sexual assault. 

Roundup is not sustainable

Getting kids outside may be a bit difficult nowadays surrounded by world a of distractions, video games and technology.

Can you COPE?