As omicron sweeps Windsor schools, mitigation policy shifts towards ‘endemic’ phase
Over winter break, Pete Sullivan, the Windsor Unified School District’s director of COVID mitigation, was looking at nearly as many active cases in Windsor High School students as he’d seen the entire fall semester. Twenty-eight high schoolers had confirmed, positive cases in the last week of 2021, compared to a total of 31 cases between September and December, with the high being a week with 16 active cases at once last fall.
‘My own little installation’: Local artist has designed storefronts for over 20 years
For northern Sonoma County-based artist and art teacher Sandra Novia, designing shop storefronts is an extension of the kind of work she might do in a more traditional art setting. Novia is both a commercial and fine artist — she’s worked as an art teacher at various organizations and school districts, painted murals throughout Sonoma County and more.
Local Eagle Scout, community members help put up fire hazard signs on Fitch Mountain
Fitch Mountain will soon be getting two fire hazard signs, one on N. Fitch Mountain Road and one on S. Fitch Mountain Road, thanks to Eagle Scout Bryce Turbeville, who in recent years has been creating fire hazard signs for local Citizens Organized to Prepare for Emergencies (COPE) groups.
Council to consider approving amendment to water shortage contingency plan
The Healdsburg City Council has a short agenda on tap for its next meeting on Tuesday, Jan. 18. However, the council will be looking at several important items, including an amendment to the Healdsburg Municipal Code updating the Water Shortage Contingency Plan, and the Project Homekey grant acceptance and purchase/sale agreement for the L&M Motel, the future site of the city’s interim housing site.
Students walk out of West County High School to protest name change
West County High School (WCHS) students walked off campus Friday morning to boast WCHS pride and protest the school board’s vote to reinstate the Analy High School name.
Here’s what’s changed as California’s new COVID workplace rules go into effect
Today, as COVID-19 case rates in California have jumped to their highest levels yet — more than six times the peak of the delta variant wave — updated workplace rules are kicking in to better help protect workers vaccinated against COVID-19.
Healdsburg Police 911 dispatchers are answering most of their calls within 15 seconds
In the last three years, the Healdsburg Police Department Dispatch Center successfully answered at least 95% of its incoming calls within 15 seconds, according to a new dispatch center data report released last month.
Short-term rental ordinance to be revised, reducing regulation for hosted rentals in Windsor
A draft ordinance that will regulate short-term rentals in Windsor came before the planning commission Jan. 11, with commissioners directing staff to revise the ordinance to reduce regulations for hosted rentals, focusing instead on non-hosted rentals, which commissioners agreed are more likely to pose immediate and long-term impacts to the community.
Black Lives Matter banner outside of Sebastopol library burned
A Black Lives Matter banner exhibited as part of a civic engagement display outside the Sebastopol Regional Library was found cut down and burned earlier this month. Library representatives and police are unsure of who vandalized the display but are taking the action seriously.
Granddaughter arrested, grandfather cited after altercation with baseball bat in Windsor
A family disturbance in Windsor in which a 17-year-old girl allegedly struck her grandfather with a baseball bat saw both family members facing legal consequences.
