County Library Appoints New Director after National Hunt
The Sonoma County Library Commission voted to appoint Erika Thibault as the new director for the Sonoma County Library at its Feb. 1 meeting, after a nationwide executive search.
Thibault has served as interim director since July 2022, when the previous director retired. She was...
Group of dedicated local knitters organizing co-op to maintain Purls of Joy store
The founder and owner of the popular knitting shop Purls of Joy is retiring at the end of this month and, in an effort to keep the shop going and the friendly store spirit alive, a group of about 50 local knitters are working to form a member-driver co-op to maintain the business.
Researchers worry that low-income Californians may have trouble repaying unemployment benefits
A new state policy may require nearly 900,000 Californians to return their unemployment benefits because they may not have been working or looking for work. But some researchers worry the clawback campaign could force low-income individuals to pay back thousands of dollars they no longer have.
SoCurious: The Healdsburg train station
Question: “When will the old railroad station be remodeled? The area has become a homeless shelter at nights and a tagger spot (graffiti).” – David A. Mayer
Students prepare to unveil tiny house project
Healdsburg High construction class will present year-long building project at parade
SRJC Planetarium, host of a thousand field trips, closing for repairs
According to a statement issued last week, the Santa Rosa Junior College (SRJC) planetarium, which was originally built in 1980, will temporarily close for the fall 2018 semester in order to perform a technical and structural assessment of the facility.
Preserve to Serve Again
This article was contributed by Kary Hess.
When it comes to the bountiful Sonoma County harvest, the abundance can be too much to eat all at once.
People end up throwing out even their home-grown garden produce. But there is a way to keep all that...
Bobcats, mountain lions sighted around Fitch Mountain
According to a number of posts on the social media page “What’s Happening Healdsburg” by several Fitch Mountain residents and neighbors, there have been several recent bobcat and mountain lion sightings throughout the area.
Historic Wohler Bridge To Close for Seismic Retrofit
The county’s Department of Public Infrastructure has announced a schedule for rebuilding the Wohler Bridge, a historic steel-truss span over the Russian River less than six miles from Healdsburg. Construction will begin on April 1, and the bridge will be closed throughout the summer.
Windsor casino would increase fire risk, impact residential communities, opponents say
In September of last year, a Native American tribe from Lake County announced its intention to build a casino that could host 54,000 people a day just outside Windsor, south of East Shiloh Road. But as the Koi Nation pursues taking the land into trust in Washington, D.C., neighbors are organizing against the plans, touting the risk congestion to a residential area with poor accessibility would pose to safe evacuation in the event of a fire, among other concerns including the potential disruption of way of life to nearby residents.
