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Nonprofit organizations, businesses, service agencies, clubs and local leaders joined forces in Windsor to bring food, gift cards and toys to Spanish-speaking families in Windsor, many of them with parents employed in the local agriculture industry.

UPDATE: OCT. 25, 11:28 p.m.

Updated Sept. 8, 7:40 p.m. —

One morning in the fall of 2017, Occidental resident Carolyn Sell woke up to an orange sky and a view of the Santa Rosa valley on fire. Realizing how easily fire could spread west to her community, Sell decided, from her vantage point up in the hills, to make sure Occidental would be ready when disaster came.

Young local artists and their adoring fans enjoyed the artist’s reception for the seventh annual Young Artists' Show at the Healdsburg Center for the Arts.

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With kids home from school and parents home from work, many local families are having to adjust to a new temporary-normal. In an effort to catalog this new way of life, community members in Geyserville and Healdsburg have begun taking “porch portraits” of families in front of their houses.

He went by a single name, “Spence,” and was equally singular in his focus on community and a very large circle of friends in his adopted hometown of Healdsburg. His full name was Donald Lamarion Spence and he died Dec. 13 after a long fight against lung cancer. He was 56. A large portion of his circle of friends held a candlelight memorial in the city’s Plaza last Friday, Dec. 14.

Reports from the Healdsburg Police call logs, starting with a July 24 disturbance on Plaza Street.