Sebastopol City Council shifts to approve its annual budget
Concluding the Sebastopol City Council’s third budget discussion earlier this month, Mayor Una Glass called for Sebastopol city staff to prepare a final city budget for the fiscal year 2021-22 for adoption at the upcoming July 20 city council meeting.
Healdsburg City Council recap: Measure V allocation and more
The Healdsburg City Council met two weeks in a row, a change from its usual twice a month pattern.
Winner of the Tribune’s christmas lights contest
Lighting up the night – The Grande home on Piper Street won our holiday lights contest for the third time this year – the Grandes will receive a free year’s subscription to the Tribune. Other notable holiday light displays are in the Presidential Estates and Parkland Farms neighborhoods, in downtown merchant windows and around the community. The Valette home on North Street is an honorable mention.
Strong now, county’s economy expected to grow slower over next two years
Lack of housing, workers constraining level of growth during wildfire recovery
Sonoma Water looks toward plans to reduce Russian River water usage by 20%
Other organizations cite additional water saving efforts, recycled water use
Graton’s Lee Walker Jr. remembered at large memorial service
Many people have shaped the apple growing industry of western Sonoma County over almost 150 years. They have put down deep roots in their orchards and beneath their family trees. They have been the primal forces that have met and endured both nature’s surprises and multiple market upheavals with multi-generational resolve and resourcefulness. All these individuals possessed many strengths and talents but only one was endowed with a major-league worthy fastball and a knee-crippling curveball. And that farmer-pitcher was Graton’s Lee F. Walker Jr.
Prayers for Peace and Community
By Christian Kallen
Candlelight illuminated the faces of some 75 people under the Plaza gazebo roof an hour after sundown on Saturday, Nov. 11. The human circle was not just present to enact the ritual of Havdalah, to begin a new week at the conclusion...
