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August 17, 2026

Drinking in Public Rules May Stay Relaxed, Says City

Mental picnic
The city’s Parks and Recreation Commission contemplated new rules for public consumption of alcohol at their Feb. 8 meeting, a month after their endorsement of a new set of nonsmoking rules for city parks, which broadly expanded non-smoking areas to include sidewalks and parking...

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We have dammed it, diverted it, paddled it, fished it, pumped

PG&E’s Proposition 16 not winning any early support

Last week the county’s Board of Supervisors and the Sonoma

Protests continue in Sebastopol over the weekend

Sunday, June 7, marked Sebastopol's fourth day of protests over police brutality against people of color, and shouts of “No justice, no peace, no racist police” and the honking of horns filled the downtown area.

41 units OK’d at Mill District

In a 5-0 vote the Healdsburg Planning Commission gave the go-ahead and approved the design for a 41-unit affordable housing project as a part of Replay’s development of the Mill District.

‘Livability’ topic of meeting Jan. 11

The city of Healdsburg will host a public meeting on the topic of “livability” next week, Thursday, Jan. 11 at the Healdsburg Community Center, 1557 Healdsburg Ave. from 6 to 8 p.m.

Arrests made in catalytic converter thefts

Catalytic converter thefts have been increasing exponentially in north county in the past month, with alerts being issued throughout all of Sonoma County. The most common victim of the thefts is the Toyota Prius, whose converters are both very easy to steal and particularly valuable. They contain precious metals, such as platinum, palladium or rhodium.

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.
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