COVID tests lagging: Slower turnaround times creeping back for Californians
Seven days a week, San Francisco’s public health laboratory operates until midnight. Workers are exhausted, their director says. And still, the COVID-19 specimens keep coming in their little plastic tubes, with test results expected quickly to help manage California’s alarming surge of infections.
Community Benefit Grant funds granted for 2017
In 1998, the Healdsburg City Council used some of the proceeds from the sale of the former city hall building to create and fund the Community Benefit Grant Program, which continues funding nonprofit and charitable organizations throughout Healdsburg.
Duck Dash and Kids’ Parade on July 4 in downtown Plaza
On Fourth of July, the Rotary Club of Healdsburg Sunrise and the City of Healdsburg are bringing both rubber duckies and families to the Healdsburg Plaza for the second annual combined Duck Dash and Kids’ Parade. The festivities will run from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., with the parade beginning at 11 a.m. in the plaza. Admission is free and comes with family activities and games, prizes and live music from the Russian River Ramblers and Jimbo the Clown.
Sebastopol camp counselor arrested for possession of child pornography
A Sonoma County camp counselor was arrested this week by the Contra Costa County District Attorney’s Office for possession of child pornography.
