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Editor’s note: All people named are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.

Among the reports in this week's paper, here's one from Aug. 20: "The RP on College Street stated that while staying with her mother, the RP found out that her mother gave about $20,000 to a person she just met. The RP believed that the situation was either elder abuse or fraud. An officer met with the RP and provided advice...."

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Last week’s biggest local news was about the local news. That would be us. Maybe you caught the big change, or maybe you didn’t. Let us explain further. Last week we transformed ourselves into SoCoNews and launched a great new website, unfurled a new news flag and launched a new identity. We are SoCoNews, which is short for Sonoma County Local New Initiative, our new community-based nonprofit owner. It’s more than a name change, even though our local news mission stays the same and all the people here are still on board and continuing to work harder than ever.

The Sebastopol City Council is meeting virtually Tuesday night, July 21 at 6 p.m. You can watch it live, or watch a recording of it after the meeting occurs.  

UK couple are on kick-scooter journey from Canada to the Mexican border to raise money for a school in Tanzania