Schools throughout Sonoma County wrestle with when to close on smoky days
Controversy exploded last week when local school districts decided to close, then open, and in a few cases, close again as smoke from the Camp Fire in Butte County reached Sonoma County. Parents took to social media to complain, and districts and the county’s superintendent scrambled to calm fears and frustrations.
Plaza remains “occupied”: Solidarity Saturday event proposed as a “next step”
Occupy Sebastopol, the local manifestation of the people-powered
Citrus Fair Worker Takes a Tumble
A worker for Butler Amusements was injured on Friday morning, Feb. 17, before the Cloverdale Citrus Fair threw open its gates for 2023. The worker was helping set up the Ferris wheel, and witnesses reported on social media that he tumbled from one of...
Behind the Delay of Fish Somersal Park Review
The dual open houses on the new Laura Fish Somersal Park design plan, scheduled for Thursday, April 3, were canceled by the city of Healdsburg on Monday. David Fletcher, a principal with Fletcher Studio, the landscape architecture firm that has been involved in the project since 2019, spoke with The Tribune about the park design process, and why the April 3 meeting may have been canceled - or, as both the city and the design firm insist, delayed.
District hopes to purchase 50 more hotspots to get families connected to learning
Healdsburg Unified School District (HUSD) students are actively engaging in distance learning, however, some families are still without internet access and the district is hoping to purchase 50 Wi-Fi hotspots to distribute to those in need, according to an update from Erin Fender, the district’s director of curriculum and instruction.
Del Rey selected as new school board president
Aracely Romo-Flores to take Del Rey’s seat as vice president
