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The Sebastopol City Council’s newly approved RV parking ordinance means a new daily grind for unhoused residents in RVs and exhausted business owners late this March when restrictions take effect.

On March 3, Sonoma County voter information guides will be going out in the mail to nearly 16,000 Town of Windsor voters for a special election taking place on April 12 to fill a vacant at-large Windsor Town Council seat. This election only applies to Town of Windsor voters.

What was billed as a walkout by Washington School students became a run-out Wednesday, as approximately 150 to 200 students left campus at lunch to protest the absence of the school’s principal, Mark Lucchetti. When students saw Lucchetti standing at the end of Citrus Fair Drive, they raised their signs and ran toward him, swarming and chanting his name.

Federal health officials who reported that nearly half of Californians live in “high-risk” counties for COVID-19 were relying on old data, and only a small number of counties now fall into that category, according to local officials.

The following are crimes excerpted from Sebastopol Police Department daily crime log entries and listed at the time the alleged violation was reported.

The shelter in place order that had been in place for Monte Rio has dropped now that the individual suspected of shooting and killing a man in Monte Rio has been arrested without incident, the Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office reported in a Nixle alert issued at 4:32 p.m. Tuesday, March 1.

The Sebastopol City Council is slated to hold two public hearings and a workshop at its meeting on March 1. The council will hold a public hearing for an ordinance about mandatory organic waste disposal and a hearing to consider a zoning amendment, conditional use permit and tentative map for the Huntley Square Townhomes, located at 7950 Bodega Avenue. Additionally, the council will be holding a workshop on the city’s draft housing strategy, considering an amendment that would create an ad hoc committee for a citywide staffing assessment study and considering a budget amendment to the city’s Relaunch Sebastopol contract. 

All students and staff, regardless of vaccination status, will no longer be required to wear a mask indoors at schools and child care facilities starting March 12. 

Cloverdale’s annual Day of Remembrance once again saw students being handed bouquets of brightly-colored daffodils as they walked across the Cloverdale High School campus. High schoolers walking toward their lunch period on Feb. 25 were given a bouquet of 16 daffodils and a tag with the names of the people the daffodils are meant to honor — young people, former Cloverdale High School (CHS) students, who lost their lives to cancer.

While the overall crime rate in Healdsburg is going down, 2021 did see a steep increase in cases related to individuals experiencing homelessness, according to a new report from the Healdsburg Police Department.