From 10:00 PM to Monday October 26, 5:00 AM Caltrans District 4 will be implementing multiple closures on SR-37 in both Eastbound (EB) and Westbound (WB) directions as part of emergency preparedness for El Niño storm preparation. Crews are expediting work requiring full closures of... Continue
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Sonoma County has reduced its unfunded pension liability by $176.6 million over the last four years, a decline of 28.5%, according to the annual State of the Retirement System report presented to the Board of Supervisors today. The County’s pension debt fell to $352.2 million... Continue
The City of Sonoma is monitoring elevated fire weather conditions expected later this week, along with a potential PG&E Public Safety Power Shutoff (PSPS) affecting portions of Sonoma County and Sonoma Valley. At this time, the City of Sonoma and the main Highway 12 corridor... Continue
By David Bolling A mostly peaceful protest by several hundred students, and as many supportive adults, lined opposite sides of Broadway in Sonoma October 13, to demonstrate opposition to the School Board’s decision against a Pride flag flying at Sonoma Valley High School. The October... Continue
by Rachel Becker With an El Niño winter threatening heavy rain, the State Auditor warns that California’s aging dams “continue to pose a risk to public safety,” especially in the Bay Area, San Diego, and Los Angeles areas. Lawmakers gave the state the power to... Continue
by Adam Echelman Immigration enforcement agents are inciting panic at California’s community colleges. Santa Monica College said that one of its students was arrested and deported last May. Then in December, Santa Barbara City College said that federal immigration officers used their campus parking lot... Continue
At the next meeting of Sonoma's Planning Commission on October 15, consideration will be given to extending permit deadlines. Currently permits may be extended for one year; these new proposals will allow permits to be extended for as long as three years. Sonoma Municipal Code... Continue
The simplest of things is orderly, a monad, a fundamental unit, indivisible substance, or concept representing "unity.” As such, it is only something we can imagine, a philosophical idea of perfection. The world we inhabit is complex. We too are complex beings, an amalgam of... Continue
A black bear in Yosemite can put away as much as 20,000 calories a day in autumn, and this year more of those calories are coming out of coolers, tents and food lockers that never got latched. Clashes between bears and people in the park... Continue