Vandalism, inappropriate use and trespassing at Brook Haven a concern for administrators, district
Following recent vandalism incidents, trespassing and inappropriate use of school facilities at the Brook Haven School in Sebastopol, the Sebastopol Union School District (SUSD) is sending a letter to district families reminding people of the rules and expectations for use of campus facilities and urging community members to be responsible when using the new artificial turf and other campus amenities.
Funds keep flowing to fight county’s homeless crisis
Outreach teams expanded and hotel purchases made to provide support housing
Healdsburg Police and Sheriff’s Department Logs, Sept. 25-Oct. 1
The following are excerpted from the Healdsburg Police Department daily log and Sonoma County Sheriff Department log entries for the Healdsburg area.
City council candidate Vaughn Higginbotham’s candidate statement
Two seats on the Sebastopol City Council are up for election on Nov. 3. Both of the incumbents, Michael Carnacchi and Neysa Hinton are seeking re-election. Challengers in the race are Evaristo "Evert" Fernandez, Diana Rich and Vaughn Richard Higginbotham. Sonoma West Times & News submitted questions to the candidates. The responses have been edited for length in some places.
Measure P proposes strengthening civilian review and oversight of law enforcement
Voters in Sonoma County will decide this election season whether to strengthen the county’s office for civilian review and oversight of law enforcement or maintain its current powers and provisions through the Evelyn Cheatham Effective IOLERO Ordinance, or Measure P.
High school to celebrate scholarship winners with special video
Healdsburg High School (HHS) is going to celebrate its 52 scholarship award winners and 21 alumni scholarship recipients with a special video set to be released sometime the first week of June.
City budget review looks at cuts, changes
Healdsburg City Council and the city’s administrative services and finance director, Heather Ippoliti, have started to review the city’s budget for the next fiscal cycle. The council met several times last week in both closed and open session meetings to discuss the city’s biennial budget for 2020-21 and 2021-22 and the necessary budget changes and cuts that will need to be implemented to soften the blow from the COVID-19 related economic recession.
