The taxpayers’ checkbook
July 1 is the start of a new fiscal year for local governments. This is when the county, cities and schools start spending new tax money based on recently approved 2016-2017 budgets. All these budgets tend to launch with the same conclusions: there is never enough tax revenue; there are too many unmet needs; employee and pension costs keep going up; and everything could be solved if we only agreed to raise new taxes and vote for more long term debt bonds.
Healdsburg Police logs, Jan. 20 – 26
The following are excerpted from Healdsburg Police Department daily log entries
Partisanships; we have them
Remember when one of our biggest arguments was over “paper or plastic” when we went grocery shopping? Turns out, we were all wrong. Now it’s canvas or bring your own recyclable bag. New mothers used to be torn over whether to breastfeed their babies or use infant formula from purified cow’s milk, vegetable oil or soy. Many people once viewed breastfeeding as “unnatural.”
Pedestrian succumbs to injuries in Bohemian Highway crash
On Saturday night, Aug. 15 at approximately 10:17 p.m., the California Highway Patrol received information about a crash involving a vehicle and a pedestrian on Bohemian Highway near Occidental on Camp Meeker Road.
Healdsburg substitute teachers are getting a pay increase starting Oct. 1
Healdsburg Unified School District (HUSD) substitute teachers are set to get a $40 pay increase starting Oct. 1. Substitutes who are HUSD retirees will receive a $55 pay increase, also effective Oct. 1.
Winter shelter opens in Guerneville
Guerneville’s winter homeless center opened on a roll this week with its nightly free dinners lined up through the end of March.
New rain garden takes root at Healdsburg High
Out in front of Healdsburg High School sits a new rain garden
CPD hosting prescription drug collection this Saturday
The Cloverdale Police Department is giving folks the opportunity to turn in expired, unused or unwanted prescription drugs on Saturday. The event, held in collaboration with the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) will go from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on April 24.
Healdsburg grad recovering from horrific bicycle injury
Sam Howell paralyzed after broken neck












