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The following are excerpted from Healdsburg Police Department daily log entries

The West Sonoma County Union High School District (WSCUHSD) will host a special meeting at 6 p.m. Monday, Nov. 23 to reconsider putting a parcel tax measure on the ballot in March and discuss the transient occupancy tax measure put forth by the county, according to the Nov. 23 agenda.

Local community groups tend to highlight how they’re preparing for the emergencies that are more frequent in Sonoma County — namely, fires and floods. However, struck with a different kind of emergency with COVID-19, the county’s local Citizens Organized to Prepare for Emergencies (COPE) and Map Your Neighborhood groups, as well as Community Emergency Response Teams (CERTs), are leaning into the core of their preparedness measures and training.

Cloverdale’s cannabis businesses are going to see a decrease in city taxes, following a 3-1 vote by the Cloverdale City Council on March 23. The council gave the green light to a resolution that amends the city’s existing blanket cannabis excise tax rate of 4.5% for cannabis businesses in favor of a tiered tax rate that varies tax amount by type of cannabis business.

Santa Rosa police have arrested four people—three men and a Healdsburg woman—who were allegedly involved in a wide-ranging scam in which the police said they laundered $7.8 million in 2022. Police said they spent 12 months investigating the crimes, beginning in September 2022, when they received...

After bitter months of debate over rebranding, the Analy High School name lives on. The West Sonoma County Union High School District (WSCUHSD) board voted to rescind their March 16 decision to rebrand the consolidated high school and to re-establish its name as Analy at the Dec. 1 special board meeting.