Local AAUW hosting two arts and music seminar programs
Proceeds support local scholarships for women and young girls
Water, sewer rate increase postponed in hopes of continued community engagement
Community workshop to be held at undetermined date
Police Log, Oct. 21-27
Day in the life: 7:09pm The RP on Fitch Street stated that about 10 people were in a physical fight in front of her house. The RP heard yelling, cussing, slapping and hitting. Officers responded and made contact with two subjects. Medical help was staged, but subsequently canceled. A report was taken.
Wine, weed, water and us
Sonoma County and its residents have become victims of too many cumulative impacts. We have backroads with too many wineries and valleys with not enough water. We’ve had tons of illegal cannabis for decades and are now fighting to figure out how to make it legal and grow it in the right places. Farmers need lawyers and land use consultants just to plant a crop or plow a hillside. We’ve had a generation-long debate about preserving our rural character but we can’t even agree on what the term exactly means.
Police Log, May 5-11
Saturday, May 10, 5:25-9:39pm: Multiple incidents regarding the same woman who called the PD requesting assistance but could not be found when officers arrived. Other RPs also called about the woman's irrational behavior and yelling, from Vine Street, the High School and Healdsburg District Hospital. She called 911 nine times over the day but remained uncooperative. Police are aware of her identity but as of yet she has not been charged with a crime.
WSCUHSD to consider rebranding for consolidated school, Laguna High
The West Sonoma County Union High School District (WSCUHSD) board will convene for a special meeting March 16 at 6 p.m. over Zoom to address the question of identity that rises in the wake of its divided March 10 vote to consolidate Analy and El Molino High Schools, shifting student populations to different campuses this coming fall.
Facing the opioid crisis: Local doctors ask you to share your stories
The opioid epidemic, which includes everything from prescription narcotics to heroin, is now the greatest public health crisis of our time. Last year there were over 64,000 drug overdose deaths, a 22 percent increase over the previous year. This is more than the fatality rate of automobile accidents or any other cause of accidental death.
