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The Healdsburg City Council approved a draft ordinance for a future ballot measure to amend the Growth Management Ordinance.

Sonoma County planners hope to hammer out a new county energy policy this year promoting renewable energy systems that harness solar, wind and other power sources to produce clean electricity.

The “Center Literary Café” a long-standing community group that gathers writers together to share work celebrated their final gathering last month unless they can find a new volunteer to run the program.

An act of neighborly generosity between two Alexander Valley vineyard owners has ended up in a long court battle that’s still not over for two warring families on Highway 128.

Dressing in my sweats, high-top shoes, hooded jersey and cap, I leave the house to meet the morning  cold. As my father would say, “No one is tougher than the weather!” I am going to meet an old friend— wild, steep, dense stands of redwood, oak and madrone— the forested path of the Fitch mountain fire trail. Hiking it brings understanding and awareness of life’s connectedness, of oneness with the Earth.

Public hearing scheduled for Thursday, Jan. 17