Sonoma Clean Power launches “Bike Electric” program
Provides customers with incentives for purchase of eBikes
Wine Producer Settles Case, Pays $320,000 to Workers
A Healdsburg winery will pay $328,000 in lost wages to 21 agricultural workers to settle a complaint filed with the California Agricultural Labor Relations Board.
Facing the opioid crisis: Local doctors ask you to share your stories
The opioid epidemic, which includes everything from prescription narcotics to heroin, is now the greatest public health crisis of our time. Last year there were over 64,000 drug overdose deaths, a 22 percent increase over the previous year. This is more than the fatality rate of automobile accidents or any other cause of accidental death.
Spirit of Sonoma Awards laud West County philanthropists
Several local business professionals and community volunteers
Used motor oil and filters
Millions of gallons of oil have been spilled across the United States through ship, rail and road collisions, explosions, pipeline ruptures, storms, etc. Big oil disasters continue to reverberate through the environment and through our news cycles: the BP oil rig explosion that wreaked havoc in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010, the ship Cosco Busan that crashed into the Bay Bridge in 2007 dumping oil into San Francisco Bay, and the famous Exxon Valdez spill in Alaska in 1989. While we watch the ongoing analysis, litigation and attempted cleanup from these high-profile events, there are measures we can all take to reduce a lesser but still very serious threat.
CalFire contains vegetation fire near Guerneville
Firefighters contained a small vegetation fire dubbed the Neeley Fire near Guerneville Thursday evening, Sept. 2.