Remembering Susan Swartz
In every writer’s life comes a great editor, someone who tweaks your creative mess, and voila, you’ve got a great piece of writing. So I am in a quandary, writing about my best friend, my best editor, a writer extraordinaire, Susan Swartz, who lived with curiosity, energy, compassion, kindness, style, jokes and was just plain fun.
Questions and answers about district elections, as Election Day looms
The primary item of interest at the Oct. 21 meeting of the Windsor Town Council centered around questions relating to changes the town is facing in the wake of its first elections since the town switched to districts and an at-large mayor.
High school board candidates mostly in agreement over district challenges, solutions
On Thursday, Sept. 24, the WSCS Community Action Coalition hosted a candidate forum over Zoom for the candidates running for the West Sonoma County Unified High School District (WSCUHSD). There are two open seats and four candidates, none of which are incumbents. The four candidates running are Laurie Ann Fadave, Julie Aiello, Kyle O’Connor and Lynn Schallebaum Gleeson.
Healdsburg Education Foundation welcomes new director
The Healdsburg Education Foundation (HEF) has a new leader at the helm.
HUSD board gives the green light for ethnic studies course
Starting next year, all Healdsburg High School freshmen will be required to take a one-semester ethnic studies course. The implementation of the course comes after several years of work to address inequality in the school district.
Zigler moving to top spot at Windsor Middle School
In a statement dated May 3, Windsor Unified School District Superintendent Jeremy Decker promoted Amy Zigler, current assistant principal at Windsor High School, to become the next principal at Windsor Middle School. Zigler accepted this promotion to be effective for the start of the 2021-2022 school year.
