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Update: This article has been updated with the link for the Zoom event. The link can be found below.

The Bodega Bay Fire Protection District (BBFPD) board went into closed session Friday afternoon, March 5, to find its footing after Measure B’s apparent defeat sent the district into what Assistant Fire Chief Steve Herzberg recently called a crisis point.

Gov. Gavin Newsom has imposed new pandemic restrictions with a conditional stay-at-home order to mitigate the effects of another surge in coronavirus cases. The number of confirmed patients in intensive care units in California was 708 on Nov. 1 and has steadily risen since.

Wednesday’s town hall of the West Sonoma County Union High School District revealed a board pressured by the Sonoma County Office of Education (SCOE) to come up with a plan and a community barely catching up on the likelihood of consolidation. 

Since the start of the COVID-19 outbreak, the Redwood Empire Food Bank (REFB) has been providing the equivalent of over 80,000 meals to people in need per day, a 50% increase up from last year, and with the drastic change in demand, the organization says they are in dire need of more funds, food and volunteers.

Frustrated by the health district’s slow pace of dissolution and its continued spending on community health projects, petitioners redouble their efforts

The long and byzantine struggle over Sebastopol’s hospital came to an end this week when the Palm Drive Health Care District sold west county’s only hospital to American Advanced Management Group (AAMG) and Sonoma Specialty Hospital (SSH) for $2 million in cash.

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In a year with a lot of bad financial news, the budget picture for the Windsor Unified School District has only gotten better, with the district moving from significant losses in earlier budget incarnations, to now a healthy reserve and budget surplus.

In a statement released through its blog, Russian River Brewing Company (RRBC) has announced it will not be having its regular festivities surrounding the limited release of its world-famous Pliny the Younger beer.