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Link Crew is an innovative and successful program at Sonoma Valley High School that pairs selected juniors and seniors, called Link Leaders, with freshmen. The aim is to help the new Dragons get oriented during the first weeks, and to help them navigate their first... Continue

A big win for California taxpayers

Last Thursday, the Fair Political Practices Commission imposed one of the largest fines ever against Los Angeles County for using taxpayer funds for political ads touting Measure H, a sales tax increase on the ballot in 2017. The action by the FPPC was precipitated by... Continue

Stop the trauma, ICE

Why are we continually traumatizing human beings? My name is Nicole Abate Ducarroz and I am a 21-year resident of Glen Ellen, as well as having served on the local school board for over 15 years.  I am a wife, and a mother of three, and... Continue

Where to click for emergency info

A huge cloud of smoke from Napa's Hennessy Fire, seen from Brocco's Barn in Sonoma. Photo: Michael Doyle. Supervisor Susan Gorin's office had received requests about alerts, maps and emergency info, so the D1 team put together the following list of resources. Note that all of... Continue

Best use of County’s PG&E settlement money

Just as our community is facing an unprecedented housing, health, and economic perfect storm, the City of Santa Rosa and Sonoma County received their $245 million PG&E settlement dollars this month – an equally unprecedented and singular opportunity to take action toward solving these crises.... Continue

Politics, crime and power (shutoffs)

The Sonoma City Council race is already over, and it’s not even September. Two seats were to be contested, but only two candidates declared, so both Amy Harrington, incumbent, and Jack Ding ‘win’ the race. (Ding will be sworn in probably in December, replacing David... Continue

A new vision for local governance

This pandemic has proven that many of our assumptions about social structures are wrong. Conventional truths about working, economic stability, education, and community have all been challenged. Office workers need not spend hours commuting each day to sit behind a desk and work on a... Continue

Sad ending to mystery of missing Sonoma man

[caption id="attachment_105701" align="aligncenter" width="420"] Family photo of Robert Fuentes, who failed to return home after leaving on Aug. 13.[/caption] A Sonoma man, reported missing last week after failing to return home from a short drive into town, was found dead Monday in a state park... Continue
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