Initial numbers show Measure C passing
Update: 4:30 p.m. May 5: A single additional vote added in the latest update show an even stronger victory for Measure C, with 70 in favor (85.37%) and 12 against (14.63%).Update: 8:10 p.m. Initial returns show the measure passing handily, however only 81 votes have been counted. Still 69 are in favor (85.19%) and 12 are against (14.81%).Update: Measure C asks if to reduce wildfire risk, preserve public safety and provide essential fire prevention services to our community, shall Northern Sonoma County Fire Protection District Ordinance No. 20/21-0127-02 be adopted, establishing a special tax, including $400 per occupied residential parcel, $400 per parcel with Commercial Recreational uses, and $50 per vacant parcel, with estimated annual revenue of $50,000, for an eight fiscal year period (2021/2022-2028/2029), with annual audits and funds being used exclusively for wildfire hazard reduction services benefitting Special Tax Zone 1?
Reach For Home to go forward minus founding executive
Colleen Carmichael to seek new calling in trauma teachings and therapy
Special Sebastopol council meeting set to tackle leftovers from last week
The Sebastopol City Council is holding a special meeting this Wednesday, July 28, to work through some of the items it had planned to work through during a meeting on July 20. The lengthy regular meeting stretched to midnight, causing the council to continue its remaining agenda to this Wednesday. While the full meeting agenda boasts about eight items, the council is restricted in how long it can meet on Wednesday, with the meeting scheduled to last from 8 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. The full agenda can be found here.
County septic policy meeting Oct. 10 at Villa
The County of Sonoma is updating regulations for septic systems in order to meet state mandates that protect water quality and public health. Permit Sonoma invites the public to attend upcoming community meetings to share feedback on the proposed Onsite Wastewater Treatment System (OWTS) Manual.
Postcard From the DNC in Chicago
Ariel Kelley attended the DNC last week, and found the current political excitement possible not only because of the Harris-Walz campaign and the Democratic Convention—"to me it’s actually about something so much bigger than a few days in Chicago," she wrote....
Finding hope, support in family: A survivor’s story
Lisa Cadwalader’s story begins with a mammogram. “My cancer was found during a routine mammogram,” Lisa, who is my aunt through marriage, told me. “I am and will always be a proponent of mammograms.”
WSCUHSD to consider hybrid model in April, potential merger in Fiscal Recovery Plan
The March 10 board meeting of the West Sonoma County Union High School District (WSCUHSD) offers a lot to digest, from possibly reopening for a hybrid learning model in April to including the potential consolidation of Analy and El Molino high schools onto one campus in the district’s Fiscal Recovery Plan.
Body found near Cloverdale ID’d
Authorities have released the identity of a deceased individual, whose body was discovered in a remote field along Highway 101 outside Cloverdale.
