Deadlock breaks, vacant council seat going to special election
Election will take place in May, with new member seated in June
Fire hits home at Healdsburg Hospital
Hospital workers who mobilized during the fires, now need help themselves
Will Seppi named Volunteer of the Year
Healdsburg resident gives back to community professionally, personally
WSCUHSD’s first student cohort returns for reopened special education class
West county teacher Adam Alcorn welcomed back West Sonoma County Union High School District’s first student cohort to return to campus for in-person instruction last week.
Police Log, July 1-17
Monday, July 1
7:53am The Reporting Party (RP) wanted a person in the bathroom at Quail & Condor to leave. The person had a guitar with her. An officer responded, but the subject was gone on arrival (GOA) and unable to be located (UTBL).
1:08pm The...
Teen poets power Laguna High School literary magazine
Keep your hand moving and cross nothing out, forget about spelling, punctuation and grammar for now, remember to lose control and do not even try to make sense. According to 16-year-old Julia Wright, these are the fundamentals of creative writing at the heart of Laguna High School’s literary magazine.
Over half of county’s eligible population now fully vaccinated, students now getting their turn
The County of Sonoma announced on May 5 that over half of the county’s 16 and older population is now fully vaccinated. In addition, more than two-thirds of the 411,000 eligible residents have received at least one shot, according to county officials. In reaching these milestones, the county has outpaced the state and the nation in the rate of vaccine doses administered, according to a county press release.
County hosting vaccine clinics at Healdsburg Fitch Mountain campus
The County of Sonoma with Alliance Medical Center is hosting a vaccine clinic at the Healdsburg Unified School District’s Healdsburg Elementary Fitch Mountain Campus this Saturday, Feb. 5, and on Feb. 26 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. All ages five and over are welcome
ID on Jane Doe’s Body, Found Near Healdsburg
A young woman whose dead body was found on the rural outskirts of Healdsburg more than three decades ago, but was always just a Jane Doe, has finally been identified as Vallejo resident Robin Fay Hendrick. This, thanks to a Sebastopol-based nonprofit called DNA...
Celebrating ‘Independence Month’
Americans have much to be grateful for. Freedom makes the top of the list for most of us because it’s expressed in so many aspects of our daily lives. Independence Day marks our celebration of freedom — it remembers we declared our independence from political and economic oppression by outsiders.