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The Healdsburg City Council is interested in finding a site for a homeless shelter that could serve Healdsburg’s shelterless population. That was the sentiment that was expressed unanimously by the council during a special city council meeting on homelessness on Monday night.

In a 5-0 vote the Healdsburg Planning Commission gave the go-ahead and approved the design for a 41-unit affordable housing project as a part of Replay’s development of the Mill District.

Consumer demand still good, but slowing; prices at record highs

In the first major development in the criminal investigation into Dominic Foppoli since nine women accused him of sexual misconduct or assault beginning last April, the Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office raided the disgraced former Windsor mayor’s home Wednesday morning, Nov. 10.

The Cloverdale Citrus Fair’s annual diaper derby was back at it again this weekend, as some of Cloverdale’s youngest community members raced to the finishing line on Saturday, April 16. The one requirement for the derby is that participating babies be unable to walk — they can only crawl.

ANOTHER WEEKEND OF ART TRAILS — Some 140 artists opened their studios last weekend for the 35th annual Sonoma County Art Trails and will be participating agin this weekend, Oct. 19 and 20. Above, Sebastopol landscape painter Gen Zorich greeted visitors to her studio. All artists have special pieces available for sale and many offer tours and demonstrations of their craft.

Guidelines serve as a ‘how to’ and not as a mandate; SCOE expected to release county guidelines later this week

Take 401 Piper St. It was a great product, so we priced it at the absolute top end of comparable properties and we found two buyers to bid up the price beyond expectations to sell it in a day. The buyers were out-of-town buyers looking for a retirement place—the perfect buyers.

Some consensus, but transparency and experience biggest issues