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The Northern Sonoma County Air Pollution Control District (NoSoCoAir), in partnership with local and state business and forestry leaders, launched the Sonoma County Biomass Business Competition (BioBiz) on Feb. 1, 2021. The competition is underway and receiving entries now through March 26, 2021. Though the north county agency is leading the competition, any local Sonoma County entity can take home one of the prizes.

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Overnight between Saturday, Sept. 12 and Sunday, Sept. 13, person or persons unknown wreaked a bit of havoc at the fountains, trees and surrounding areas of the Windsor Town Green.

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The owner and operator of Vanity the Salon, a Healdsburg beauty parlor, has moved to a new location, after nearly two years of struggling to keep her business — in an industry particularly hard hit by the pandemic — alive.

Oct. 13, 5:04pm: A hit-and-run accident occurred on Dry Creek Road at Grove Street. A truck hit a traffic light causing damage to the signal pole. The truck also suffered a blown tire. A report was taken. At 7:09pm, the employer of the driver of the truck indicated that the driver hit the pole and did not report it because the driver did not think there was damage.

School districts in California’s richest neighborhoods are far more likely to offer in-person instruction than those serving its poorest, though the state as a whole remains behind the rest of the country in bringing students back inside physical classrooms, according to a CalMatters analysis of state data.

F.E.E.D. Sonoma recently announced two big changes: It has started offering weekly F.E.E.D. bins, a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) box made up of produce from dozens of local farms, and it switched its business model to being farmer- and employee-owned.