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A parade of some 30-odd cars filled with joyous voters wound its way from Santa Rosa to the Windsor Town Green, celebrating the victory of president-elect Joe Biden and his running mate Kamala Harris. Cars were decorated with flags, banners and stickers, and drivers honked their horns and waved and cheered at the small crowd greeting them at the Green. California state senator Mike McGuire and newly elected Rohnert Park Councilmember Jackie Elward were participants in the parade organized by Pat Sabo of the Sonoma County Democrats.

Ann Gillis, longtime Cloverdale Senior Multipurpose Center member, celebrated her 100th birthday on Sept. 8. The city of Cloverdale issued her a proclamation to commemorate her 100th birthday. The only thing that could have been sweeter is if Ann, known as Cloverdale’s “hugging grandmother,” could have given everyone a hug.

City hosts winter preparedness workshop

Seniors from Cloverdale High School and Johanna Echols-Hansen Continuation High School walked across the Cloverdale stage on Friday, June 11, leaving the Cloverdale district behind them as they head into the next step in their lives. 

In the rush to flee the firestorm, many of us were faced with having to quantify and calculate the emotional and actual value of many of our possessions in an incredibly brief period of time. Now, living in an area with some familiarity with natural disasters, many of us knew the basics — ID, important documents, checkbook, medicine, pets — but after that was covered, what did people grab to potentially start a new life with?

Two questions: How will the city of Healdsburg use water to prioritize livability not profitability?

The following are excerpted from Healdsburg Police Department daily log entries and the log entries of the Sonoma County Sheriff's Department for the Healdsburg area.

The midday Saturday, Jan. 10 rally was active for 90 minutes, but that was enough time for about 200 people to show up at the corners of Matheson and Healdsburg Avenue, bearing signs they had made for the occasion or left over from the last No Kings march.

It is too early and too far off to tell whether the Oct. 7 board meeting of the West Sonoma County Union High School District (WSCUHSD) marks the beginning of the end for at least one of the district’s school sites.