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This is part of a series on the making of the Cloverdale Sculpture Trail.

On June 8, Alexander Valley Union School District’s former principal-superintendent Robert Patrick Raines was arrested on suspicion of lewd acts with a child under the age of 14, according to the Marin County Sheriff’s Department. Raines, 66, left Alexander Valley in 2016 after working there for nine years to become the superintendent of the Shoreline Unified School District, according to Raines’ LinkedIn profile.

With Halloween around the corner, and families desperate for some degree of normalcy, trying to figure out what activities can be enjoyed safely has become important. Around the county, there will be drive-thru events, social-distanced events and many neighborhoods are going through with trick-or-treating with pandemic precautions. Figuring out which of those options is safe for your family can be tricky.

From the start of the epidemic right down to this day, certain products have been hard to get a hold of — toilet paper and hand sanitizers among them. We haven’t heard of any local TP makers, but two types of local businesses have thrown themselves into the sanitizer business: distilleries and herbalists, both of whom have access to high-proof alcohol as a part of their regular business practices.

 In a letter to the Healdsburg Unified School District (HUSD) community posted to the website and social media Monday afternoon, HUSD Superintendent Chris Vanden Heuvel said the district is preparing to virtually reopen for school tomorrow, Aug. 25. 

MONDAY, NOV. 22

Smoke will likely be visible in Cloverdale Friday, stemming from a prescribed burn at the Porterfield Creek Open Space.

St. Patrick’s Day – occasionally known as “Amateur Night” to the Irish, starts early in Healdsburg next Friday, March 17.