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Over the next two weeks, Sonoma West Times & News will be rehashing 2020 in west county. We’ll be reviewing the biggest events in the economy, as well as covering topics such as COVID-19, health care, schools, homelessness and more.

West County artists are hoping for sunshine as Art at the Source

Partnering with the City of Healdsburg, Corazón Healdsburg is set to bring back its annual Día de Muertos event to the Healdsburg Plaza on Oct. 31.The nonprofit organization opened its doors to the community with its first Día de Muertos event in 2016 and is pleased to honor the day in-person again after not being able to last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic.“This year feels particularly important,” said Corazón CEO Glaydon de Freitas. “With more than 400 Sonoma County residents lost to COVID-19 and the many other challenges the pandemic has brought, our families have weathered a lot. As we honor our dead, we hope to bring our community safely together in recognition of all that we have been through and all that we share.”

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At its Aug. 18 meeting, the Windsor Town Council heard a presentation by city staff regarding options for improving Windsor’s inclusionary housing ordinance, which has been criticized for hindering the development it had aimed to promote.

It’s been an odd year for schools, with most districts having to enact plans and policies they likely could never have imagined previously. But at the April 20 meeting of the Windsor Unified School District Board of Trustees, they had yet one more unusual discussion — what resources are available for victims of sexual assault and harassment in the light of a very public conversations about those crimes being allegedly perpetrated by the town’s mayor.

One vote down, 12 years to build.

‘Confronting the Opioid Epidemic’ event at Raven Oct. 3