Nine-year-old Nicholas knows more about honeybees than most adults in City Hall. He can tell you how many pounds of honey it takes to keep a colony alive through winter and why worker bees spend their short lives rotating through jobs like janitor, nurse, and forager. He’s been tending his own hive in his family’s…
Highway 12 cuts through the heart of Sonoma Valley, a stretch of road lined with vineyards, oak woodlands and neighborhoods. For decades it has also been a deadly barrier for wildlife — blocking deer, mountain lions, bobcats and other animals from moving safely between the Mayacamas and Sonoma Mountain ranges. The Sonoma Land Trust has…
Nine-year-old Nicholas knows more about honeybees than most adults in City Hall. He can tell you how many pounds of honey it takes to keep a colony alive through winter and why worker bees spend their short lives rotating through jobs like janitor, nurse, and forager. He’s been tending his own hive in his family’s…
Sebastopol’s latest city council meeting began quietly enough, with two routine planning commission appointments, but quickly turned into a room full of anxious voices — tenants facing eviction, residents worried about flooding, and parents trying to keep fentanyl from killing more kids. The council first picked Joan Harper and Alex Kanzler from a field of…
SEBASTOPOL, Calif. — Azure Acres, a longtime drug and alcohol recovery center on Green Hill Road, will close Oct. 9 after halting new admissions, according to state regulators and the facility’s corporate owner. Acadia Healthcare, the Tennessee-based corporation that owns Azure Acres, confirmed the closure in a Sept. 10 statement citing a “careful and comprehensive…
