Californians waive labor law for Uber and Lyft, keep cash bail and affirmative action ban: Prop and hot race calls
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.
Living Peace Wall ceremony canceled for the year
Sebastopol’s Living Peace Wall will have to wait another year for a new batch of inductees. The annual induction ceremony for the wall has been canceled and rescheduled for late August or early September 2021.
What to pack when preparing a go bag
With many zones (see the county’s evacuation order and warning map here: https://socoemergency.org/emergency/current-socoalerts/) in north county under an evacuation warning and some under an evacuation order, now is a good time to assess what you have packed in your go bag, as well as what you can do to harden your home.
More details becoming clear for school reopening
At a pair of webinars July 22 and 23, the Sonoma County Office of education presented the latest information and rulings about schools reopening. The first was presented with a focus on information for families, the second was more focused on administrators and school officials.
In terse meeting with Supervisors, sheriff agrees to abide by public health orders
Essick’s earlier refusals met with series of rebukes, calls for resignation
Beyond the Joe Rodota Trail: SoCo Acts of Kindness keeps giving
On Friday, Jan. 31, the county cleared the homeless encampment on the Joe Rodota Trail. Sixty homeless campers went to a “sanctioned encampment” at Los Guilicos. Some accepted beds in local shelters. More than 100 people either refused what the county had offered or were somehow missed by county officials, but, under threat of arrest, they left the trail anyway, pitching their tents elsewhere around the county.
Days of remembrance on Memorial weekend in Sebastopol
Sebastopol was decked out in red, white and blue on Memorial Day
Building heights and water woes at Windsor Town Council meeting
The May 5 meeting of the Windsor Town Council was fairly quick by normal standards, but it covered a few substantial issues.
First week of school sees multiple COVID cases for WUSD
Students in the Windsor Unified School District (WUSD) returned to in-person hybrid learning on April 5, but with not even a week back in school, multiple COVID cases have popped up, prompting the activation of the district’s COVID response team, and sending some staff and students back into distance learning.
