Government
Comstock Middle School closes for good as Santa Rosa schools claw out of fiscal crisis
Education
· EDUC · 26.06.05
Santa Rosa schools hire an Oakland administrator who’s seen state takeover up close
Santa Rosa City Schools picked its next superintendent from Oakland Unified — a district that spent 22 years under state control before clawing its way out last summer. Santa Rosa is fighting to keep…
Government
Comstock Middle School closes for good as Santa Rosa schools claw out of fiscal crisis
Legal
Cotati hit with new federal civil rights lawsuit
Government
Lake County: $4.9 million from state, all on Route 29
Business
Micro-Winery Guild launches in Napa and Sonoma, cashing in on Santa Rosa lawmaker’s vineyard-tasting bill
A small-producer trade group that spent years pushing California to legalize tastings out in the vines is now turning that win into…
Water
Cloverdale will be short of water in dry years — by a third
Government
Hidden recording in a Davis living room:
Business
Four Napa County weeklies go dark May 22 as Highway 29 Publishing pauses operations
Four Napa County weekly newspapers will stop publishing on May 22, the company that owns them announced Wednesday afternoon. In a letter…
Uncategorized
Word Junkie: The spring edition
Health
Three hospitalized near Deer Park as California’s wild-mushroom poisoning toll climbs to 47
Business
Medtronic’s Santa Rosa exit closes a 27-year chapter in Sonoma County medtech
Government
Santa Rosa City Attorney Teresa Stricker resigns; council names interim June 2
Santa Rosa City Attorney Teresa L. Stricker told the city Saturday she is stepping down on Tuesday, June 2, citing “new professional…
Critters
Tailless Petaluma rehab cub turned loose in remote North State
Community
Grand jury gives Sonoma’s open-space agency a clean review — and flags a 2031 cliff
Business
Napa’s wine and farm workers can’t afford to live in Napa anymore. A new study puts a number on it.
Napa Valley runs on immigrants. Its wineries, restaurants, hotels and farms all do. What a new report makes plain is that more…
Homelessness
Where the misfits went: Sausalito’s last anchor-outs and the long retreat of bohemian North Bay
Business
GM sold drivers’ location data for four years. Two North Bay DAs helped shut it down.
Community
Bodega residents to get update Thursday on fire station lease talks
Crime
Police review videos after Sonoma market fight sends two teens to hospital
SONOMA — Police are reviewing cellphone videos from a fight at Sonoma’s Tuesday Night Market after two teenagers went to the hospital…
Uncategorized
Lake County names public works director after merger and pay increase
Business
Glen Ellen woman accused of $1M-plus contracting fraud across Northern California
Business
For Bodega Bay’s salmon fleet, the season is open. Whether the fishery is back is another question.
Business
Opinion: A quiet scam at the dumps voters own — and pay twice to clean up after
By design, Sonoma County’s $47 dump fee is a customer-acquisition strategy for Republic and Recology When I moved to West County twelve…
Fire & Safety
Lake County enters fire season with its safety net already stretched
Uncategorized
State money buys trucks, but Lake County fire districts still face crunch
Business
Sonoma’s first Mexican American family winery is in bankruptcy court
Government
Yountville’s town manager walked into a performance review. He walked out resigned.
Government
Permit Sonoma’s code-enforcement reckoning
Environment
Federal gauges below Lake Sonoma have gone dark just as Sonoma Water calls a dry year on the Russian River
Government
The Lake Sonoma contract the board no longer votes on
Wine & Ag
Word Junkie: A flight of obscure wine words
Government
Cloverdale’s own water plan says the city doesn’t need the Eel River dams its vice mayor is fighting to save
Housing
Appeals court blocks Santa Rosa mobilehome park owners from recouping wildfire-era rent increases
Water
The lake that feeds the upper Russian River is losing ground
Business
Pop the cork: Southwest’s Sip and Ship is officially live at STS
Government
Petaluma mobile home residents say park owners are running a smear campaign against their advocate
Business
After three years tied to the dock, Bodega Bay’s salmon fleet gets blessed again
Uncategorized
Witches, munchkins, and shelter mutts: Sebastopol’s Apple Blossom Parade hits 80
Environment
Three years in: Is Sonoma County’s groundwater plan actually working?
Community
Sonoma County just rewrote the rules for big events: Here’s what changes June 9
Business
Your Dungeness crab starts with one ice machine in Bodega Bay: Inside Sonoma County’s quietest infrastructure win