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California’s app-based corporate luminaries such as Uber and Lyft just waged the most expensive state ballot measure campaign in U.S. history — and it paid off big time, allowing those companies to thwart the will of all three branches of California government. 

The city of Cloverdale is hosting a community workshop about its draft of the city’s Local Hazard Mitigation Plan and its General Plan Public Health and Safety Element. The plans help identify how the city can respond and protect community members from potential natural hazards and disasters.

Crimes and concerns reported to Healdsburg Police, May 25-31: Residents and others are encouraged to call Police Dispatch as needed at 707.431.3377, operational 24/7.

Vital Lands Initiative looks ahead 15 years

In the aftermath of a bruising year-long labor dispute with teachers, the board of the West Sonoma County Union High School District voted unanimously on Nov. 20 to add a $79 parcel tax measure to the March 2020 ballot. The measure will raise approximately $1.81 million a year for the next eight years if passed.

Over the past summer, Cloverdale’s Good Shepherd Episcopal Church began replacing all of the glass windows in the church with stained-glass ones — each window a reflection of the beauty surrounding Cloverdale. One window, located in the front entrance of the church, has a slightly different story — it was found in a Healdsburg antique shop and donated to the church by Gene and Carolyn Marcinkowski after they realized that it would be a perfect fit for the space.