Year in Review: Pandemic
In an eight-part series we look back at the world that was, here in our little corner of it. 2020 was a year of challenges. We’ll be publishing this eight-piece work daily as we work to the new year. Today’s piece is on the story that dominated all aspects of life this year, the COVID-19 pandemic.
Graton Day Labor Center holds vigil condemning treatment of women, families in ICE detention
Latinx domestic workers, day laborers, other immigrant workers and folks from the Graton Day Labor Center held a socially distanced vigil along the public sidewalk on Sebastopol Road and West Avenue in Santa Rosa Friday evening to condemn and express outrage amid the recent news of forced sterilizations of incarcerated immigrant women.
County declares emergency amid wildfires
The Sonoma County Board of Supervisors declared a local emergency Friday afternoon, Aug. 21, in response to the Walbridge Fire burning down to Armstrong Woods that continues to threaten the Rio Nido, Guerneville and lower Russian River communities.
5-way project a year behind schedule
South entry to downtown will not be ready by the end of 2017 as city hoped
Feeding shut-in seniors from the check-out line
The following is the first in a series of Food Basket stories
Second grade student reaches goal of reading one million words
A second-grade student at St. John the Baptist Catholic School in Healdsburg has given new meaning to the term “bookworm.”
Shelter in place extended to May 3
Sonoma County Health Officer Dr. Sundari Mase announced Tuesday evening, March 31, that the Sonoma County shelter in place order will be extended until May 3, at 11:59 p.m.














