Open House for Healdsburg’s Climate Future Wednesday
Imagine what Healdsburg might be like in 2035. On hot days, residents and businesses throughout the city of Healdsburg could be cooled by a stunning canopy of shade trees. Urban gardens, farms and vineyards would flourish with locally produced compost.
Children could safely ride bikes...
Skilled nursing unit to lose its Medicare/Medicaid funding
After failing to rectify a situation of immediate jeopardy to residents in the skilled nursing unit of the Pacifica Healdsburg Senior Living facility, the unit is losing its Medicare/Medicaid funding on Jan. 15 and will be closing. As a result, the skilled nursing unit is asking its 16 residents to leave by Jan. 15, according to some family members of residents.
Windsor wastewater plans with Lytton Tribe fall apart
End of negotiations means tribe will build its own plant adjacent to Deer Creek neighborhood, take back its $20 million in community funds
River’s mouth forced open by Sonoma Water crews
After recent weeks of high and dangerous surf that took four lives along the Sonoma and Mendocino ocean coast, accompanied by King Tides and offshore storms that kept closing the sandbar at the mouth of the Russian River, Sonoma Water work crews on Tuesday were finally able to breach the blockage and eliminate the threat of flooding to the town of Jenner.
California’s new goal: Vaccinate a million people in 10 days
Getting the coronavirus vaccines into the arms of as many Californians as possible has become a race against time as COVID-19 cases continue to spiral upward and a more infectious variant of the virus takes root.
Improving access to your library: Library eliminates fines for 80,000 patrons
On July 1, the Sonoma County Library went “fine-free” and eliminated overdue fines for items returned late. In addition, all past fines were waived. In all, more than 80,000 people — 30 percent of all library borrowers — had their overdue fines waived.
Be a Chelsey
It’s another work week here at the newspaper, and then next week we will work some more. For almost all of us, our lives get defined by the kind of work we do. When we have steady jobs our daily habits, travel patterns, alarm clocks, meal times and relaxing moments are all fit in around what we do to get paid.
City enters into exclusive negotiating agreement for Thyme Square affordable housing
At a Cloverdale City Council meeting last week, the council gave the green light for the city to enter into an exclusive negotiating agreement with Integrated Community Development for the possible development of affordable housing units on Lot A of the city’s South Cloverdale Boulevard Thyme Square property.
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.
