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August 10, 2026

WUSD to do distance learning through late September

In a letter dated July 24, Windsor Unified School District and Superintendent Jeremy Decker announced that WUSD will be doing distance learning only through Sept. 25. It also announced that school will likely open four days later than planned, on Aug. 17.

Water to Wine footrace changes locations, start moves to Kendall Jackson

The second footrace in the Run Wine Country half marathon series will be hitting the roads just south of Windsor this weekend, when the Water to Wine Half Marathon rolls out of Kendall Jackson Wine Estate and Gardens on Fulton Road at 7 a.m. Sunday morning.

California’s housing crisis: How much difference will a zoning bill make?

On a few of the vast, verdant lawns in East Sacramento, one of the capital city’s most popular and expensive neighborhoods, yellow-and-black yard signs urge passersby to “save neighborhoods” and keep Sacramento “livable and diverse.” The message symbolizes a big battle taking place at the state Capitol only a few miles away — whether to do away with sacrosanct single-family neighborhoods to address the California housing crisis.

Blind Scream: The twisted art of scaring people half to death

There are not many career options where you can get paid to scare the living daylights out of people, however, one Sonoma County Halloween tradition employs a slew of actors each season to provide customers with hair-raising scares.

Community briefs

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WSCUHSD board tiptoes forward on rebranding, surveys students

Time is running out for the trustees of the West Sonoma County Union High School District (WSCUHSD) to decide the future name of its consolidated high school by January. The school board faces a bottleneck in the rebranding process for several reasons made clear at the Nov. 17 special meeting.

Sebastopol City Council approves citywide RV parking restrictions

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.

Developer abandons plans for downtown hotel

Decision to drop proposal follows lengthy response from the city

commentary Pick up after your pet

There are 78 million dogs in the U.S. today. They eat and then each eliminates almost a pound of poop every day. The resulting 3.6 billion pounds of dog poop produced in a year can fill 800 footballs fields, one foot deep! This is no small nuisance. Sonoma County’s 43,000 dogs produce over 32,000 pounds daily. Cleaning up your pet’s waste helps keep our pets, the environment, and each other healthy.

Cloverdale Police Logs: Aug. 24-30

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