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The Healdsburg City Council is scheduled to review and possibly approve two new housing projects Monday night. The 29-unit “Oaks at Foss Creek” subdivision near the corner of Grove and Chiquita Roads, has been extensively reviewed by the Healdsburg Planning Commission, which resulted in multiple revisions of the plan before it was approved.

The Fitch Mountain Fund will host the Fitch Mountain Forever fundraiser and hike on Sunday, April 22 from 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Villa Chanticleer in Healdsburg. Fitch Mountain Park and Open Space Preserve, the 173 acres on top of Fitch Mountain, was officially transferred to the City of Healdsburg in November 2017.

One dollar bought you a different cookie based on your gender

Jonah Raskin, emeritus Sonoma State University professor, writer and former radical journalist visited local booksellers. “I talked to booksellers a couple of years ago, and asked, ‘Are there any wine country murder mysteries you recommend to tourists?’ and they said no. They talk to tourists who come in all the time and say they want a murder mystery that’s set in Sonoma, and the booksellers say there really isn’t one.” So Raskin wrote one.

Meeting in Cloverdale will discuss projects up for grant funding in Russian River watershed

Schools open as normal, after threat deemed a hoax

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.

Six months after the firestorms ripped through Sonoma County, signs of change and renewal abound. Art displays dot neighborhoods, reminding those affected to have hope. Native plants and trees defy the burned landscape with tenacious shoots and growth.

Water conservation, fire impacts discussed

Principal and Superintendent of the West Side School Rhonda Bellmer has seen a lot and done a lot in her 25 years in education, but she admits she’s struggling with the recent tragedies related to school shootings around the country.