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There are several women and women’s groups in Sonoma County working on celebrations of the centennial of 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote, but the person most responsible for the new yellow, white and purple banners in Sebastopol’s town plaza is a man: city council member and history buff, Michael Carnacchi.

A Petaluma man, David Glen Ward, 52, was driving through west county in his own car in the early hours of Wednesday, Nov. 27, when he was mistaken for a carjacker and died after a struggle with Sonoma County sheriffs and Sebastopol police.

The West County Museum is highlighting local trailblazers with its new “Extraordinary Local Women” exhibit. The exhibit includes information about local women who were the first women to do what they did, from the first female Sebastopol mayor to the first Sebastopol Times editor to the first woman to vote in Sonoma County. The exhibit opens on Thursday, Dec. 5, and has a grand opening on Saturday, Dec. 7.

On Oct. 23 the last of three planned workshops was held on a proposed 19.3 mile multi-use trail between Mirabel Park and Jenner. The high-speed River Road/Highway 116 corridor has a history of multiple pedestrian and bicycle accidents. The proposed trail is intended to provide a paved path separate from the roadway. The study’s stated goal “is to provide safe walking and bicycling access to communities, schools, businesses, parks and beaches, and other recreation opportunities along the river corridor.”

SEBASTOPOL — Bill Roventini, a Sebastopol native son and

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Future dog park

Recently announced sale of Healdsburg facility requires district voters’ approval on Nov. 3

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

MONDAY, APRIL 20