Healdsburg council approves move to six-stage water shortage contingency plan
The Healdsburg City Council had a unanimous vote last week in approval of changing the city’s three-stage water shortage contingency plan of the Healdsburg Municipal Code to a six-stage plan, aligning with the California Department of Water Resources recommendations on water contingency plans.
Sebastopol Police Logs, Jan. 17-23
The following are crimes excerpted from Sebastopol Police Department daily crime log entries and listed at the time the alleged violation was reported.
Healdsburg Junior High’s GSA thrives after six years
For over six years, Healdsburg Junior High School’s Gender & Sexualities Alliance (GSA) club has been a safe haven for several students who were looking for a place of support — now the club has evolved into so much more.
6 things to know about omicron’s risks on the job
Look no further than your favorite restaurant, your kid’s school or your local hospital to see the effect of California’s latest bout of infections.
Windsor council to review redistricting maps at Jan. 24 special meeting
Windsor’s redistricting process has produced three map options for review.
COVID work rules: A guide for California workers
A new cough. The beginnings of a fever. A note from your boss about a COVID case at work.
HUSD dip in attendance coincides with omicron surge
Amid the surge of the highly transmissible omicron variant, the Healdsburg Unified School District (HUSD) has been seeing higher than usual absence rates. District administrators are hopeful that new California Department of Public Health (CDPH) guidance on COVID contact tracing and quarantining in schools will allow more students to stay in school.
City to move forward with L&M Motel interim housing project
The City of Healdsburg is moving forward with the L&M Motel/Reach for Home interim housing project for the chronically homeless, a move which the city housing administrator and council members say is significant in terms of closing a gap in services and addressing the needs of the local homeless population.
Inflation
There are lots of big topics dominating the news these days. We’re getting pretty darn tired of most of them, like the omicron variant of the coronavirus, the open-shut door carousel at our local schools, renewed sheltering-in-place orders, a drought that comes with a tsunami warning and muddy feet and distant drumbeats about what’s being called “existential threats” to our democracy. But the biggest — and most real — current news topic is probably inflation, an economic menace we haven’t had to face for almost 40 years.
