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American Legion Sotoyome Post 111 is hosting its annual crab feed on Saturday, Feb. 4 at the Villa Chanticleer in Healdsburg. The menu includes all-you-can-eat crab, garlic bread and salad. Dinner also includes beer, wine, water and coffee. There is no pasta, no raffle and no auction to distract attendees from fresh crab. Proceeds from this event support the charitable programs of the local legion post. The event is $60 a ticket. For tickets call 431-2328 or 695-2663.

The Healdsburg City Council has a short agenda on tap for its next meeting on Tuesday, Jan. 18. However, the council will be looking at several important items, including an amendment to the Healdsburg Municipal Code updating the Water Shortage Contingency Plan, and the Project Homekey grant acceptance and purchase/sale agreement for the L&M Motel, the future site of the city’s interim housing site.

On Tuesday, May 19, an attorney for the mother of David Glen Ward, the 52-year-old man who died in a bizarre interaction with sheriff’s deputies at the end of December, has filed suit against the two sheriff’s deputies involved, a Sebastopol police officer who was on the scene, the county of Sonoma and Sonoma County Sheriff Mark Essick.

MONDAY, MAY 10

In a statement dated May 3 it was announced that Windsor Unified School District Superintendent Jeremy Decker promoted Brian Williams, current principal of Windsor Middle School, to become the next principal at Windsor High School. This new assignment is to be effective for the start of the 2021-2022 school year.

In Sonoma County and all across California, cannabis companies that don’t have permits from Sacramento have received cease and desist orders over the past six months. Those companies have had a choice: fill out the forms, submit them to the authorities and pay the fees, or face loss of property and fines.

Yakich will finish out the year in Cloverdale, moving to Windsor’s Mattie Washburn Elementary in July