Thanks, but no thanks: Why community colleges are resisting $170 million
Rarely are college bean-counters skeptical of receiving more money, but a plan to give California’s community college system hundreds of millions of dollars for faculty is dividing finance officials and professors.
Healdsburg school board reviewing ethnic studies course proposal
The Healdsburg Unified School District (HUSD) Board of Trustees has a busy agenda on tap for its next meeting on Wednesday, Nov. 17. The school board will swear in its new student trustee, Annie Petersen, and it will receive reports on the possibility of implementing ethnic studies throughout the HUSD and at Healdsburg High School.
Cloverdale local has been dressing up as Santa for town activities for over 20 years
Christmas carols exclaim that Santa Claus is coming to town, but for the city of Cloverdale, Santa Claus has been in town for almost two decades.
Do you have old copies of the Sebastopol Times?
The Western Sonoma County Historical Society is on the hunt for copies of Sebastopol Times from specific years that the society doesn’t already have in its collection.
West County Health Centers opens two COVID-19 vaccination clinics
West County Health Centers (WCHC) debuts two COVID-19 community vaccination clinics this week, at Guerneville Elementary School in Guerneville and at Analy High School in Sebastopol, according to a Jan. 29 WCHC press release.
Ukiah man arrested for hate crime in Bodega Bay
On Saturday, June 13, Sonoma County deputies working together with Ukiah Police Department arrested 43-year-old Anthony Pelfrey of Ukiah for being a felon in possession of pepper spray, illegal use of pepper spray and a hate crime.
The parcel tax snafu in the Monte Rio Fire District
In November 2018, voters of the Monte Rio Fire District passed a parcel tax to support the fire district. In the intervening months, it was discovered that there was an error in the way those parcels were identified. The creators of the parcel tax measure had meant to exclude low-value parcels (575 of them) from the parcel tax. It turns out that didn’t happen, and many landowners got surprisingly large bills in October. Michele McDonell, the writer of one of the adjacent letters, said her family’s parcel tax bill for low-value parcels alone was over $10,000.
Sing-Along Messiah Dec. 10, at Sebastopol United Methodist Church
Community members invited to belt out tunes
Foppoli responds to recall effort with defiance
In a written response to the recall effort against him, Windsor’s at-large mayor Dominic Foppoli continues to maintain his innocence and alludes to campaign to “tear him down.”
