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<p>County mailing Voter Information Guides for Novemberelection </p>
<span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">County Voter Information Guides for the Nov. 2, 2021, Consolidated Election will be going out in the mail soon.</span> Read full story
Board of Supervisors adopts urgency ordinance to curb misuse of multi-tenant commercial cannabis policy
The County of SonomaBoard of Supervisors today adopted a 45-day interim urgency ordinanceprohibiting ministerial permits for multi-tenant commercial cannabiscultivation in unincorporated Sonoma County. Read full story
<p>Child rapist receives "life" sentence</p>
<p> <span>Defendant LarryThomas Rhoades, 69 years old of Santa Rosa, was sentenced earlier today by theHonorable Peter Ottenweller to serve a prison term of 12 years plus anadditional indeterminate sentence of 15 years to life, after pleading “nocontest” in June to 25 felony counts of child sexual assault. </span></p><p><span></span></p> Read full story
<p>Richard Celli named chief investigator at Sonoma County District Attorney's Office</p>
<span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Sonoma County District Attorney Jill Ravitch has selected Richard Celli as the new Chief of the Investigations Bureau at the Sonoma County District Attorney’s Office.</span> Read full story
El Condado de Sonoma empieza la Construcción del Parque de Comida Mitote
El Condado de Sonoma va a celebrar la creación del Parque de Comida Mitote con una ceremonia para el inicio de la construcción el jueves 23 de septiembre a las 4 p.m. El evento presentara música y un variedad de cocinas de los vendedores locales. La ceremonia empezará con los oficiales locales poniendo la primera piedra y continuará hasta las 6 p.m. Read full story
Sonoma county to break ground on Mitote Food Park
Sonoma County will be celebrating the creation of theMitote Food Park with a groundbreaking ceremony on Thursday, Sept. 23 at 4 p.m. Read full story
<p>Triple Murderer Denied Parole</p><p></p>
<span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">District Attorney Jill Ravitch has announced that Johnny Lee Sommerhalder, 78</span><i style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> </i><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">years old of Santa Rosa, has been denied parole by the California Board of Parole Hearings.</span> Read full story
<p>Man Convicted of Sexually Abusing Two Young Females</p><p></p>
<span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Defendant Jesus Paniagua-Rojas, 51 years old of Santa Rosa, was found guilty Wednesday afternoon by a Sonoma County jury of committing 18 felony sex offenses against two children from 2014 to 2018.</span> Read full story
<p>Two Basin Solution Partnership Requests More Time to AddressRegional Water Crisis</p><p></p>
<span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">The </span><a href="https://www.twobasinsolution.org/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68);">Two-Basin Partnership</a><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">, comprised of California Trout, the County of Humboldt, the Mendocino County Inland Water & Power Commission, the Round Valley Indian Tribes, and Sonoma County Water Agency, on September 2 asked the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to allow additional time to re-evaluate the proposed plan to take over the Potter Valley Hydroelectric Project (Project).</span> Read full story
<p>El supervisor David Rabbitt y Sonoma Water serán los anfitrionesdel Ayuntamiento sobre la sequía </p><p> </p>
La Agencia de Agua del Condado de Sonoma y el Supervisor del Segundo Distrito, David Rabbitt, organizarán un Ayuntamiento virtual sobre la sequía el miércoles 15 de septiembre a las 5:30 p.m. El Ayuntamiento se llevará a cabo utilizando un seminario web Zoom. El enfoque de la reunión estará en la sequía y los impactos en el Segundo Distrito de Supervisión y la cuenca del río Ruso. Read full story