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October 13, 2018 | Board of Supervisors Department
Sonoma County Responds to PG&E’sPotential Power Shut-Off With Advanced Preparation
Thisafternoon, the County of Sonoma acted promptly to prepare for the potentialshut down of PG&E power to areas of Sonoma County. Read full story
October 11, 2018 | Department of Human Services
State Honors Sonoma County Foster Parents and Social Worker
Santa Rosa residents Kim and Scott Streeter were named California Foster Parents of the Year. Read full story
October 09, 2018 | Sonoma County Regional Parks
Tolay Lake Regional Park to Open Daily October 27, 2018
The Sonoma County Board of Supervisors on Oct. 9, 2018 approved the Tolay Lake Regional Park master plan, an action that allows the county’s largest park to open daily. Read full story
October 09, 2018 | Board of Supervisors Department
Tolay Lake Regional Park: Master Plan Approved, Park will Open Seven Days a Week
The SonomaCounty Board of Supervisors today approved the Tolay Lake Regional Park masterplan, an action that allows the county’s largest park to open daily later thismonth. Read full story
October 06, 2018 | Natural Resources
Sonoma-Marin Saving Water Partnership Wins National Awards for its Training, Outreach and Education Programs
The Sonoma-Marin Water Saving Partnership (Partnership), a group of North Bay water utilities, has once again been recognized with national awards for its water-saving efforts. Read full story
October 06, 2018 | Natural Resources
Value of Fire Cameras Highlighted in Detectionand Suppression of Wildland Fire East of Geyserville
Two months after the directors of Sonoma Water and theBoard of Supervisors agreed to fund a pilot project of fire cameras to provideearly detection of wildfires, the nascent network of fire-detecting apparatusdemonstrated its value when a camera atop Geyser Peak spotted a recentlyignited fire and allowed firefighters to locate and quickly suppress the blaze. Read full story
October 05, 2018 | Office of the District Attorney
Cloverdale Man Sentenced To Ten Years In Prison For Elder Theft
DefendantTheodore Smith Hudson III, 54 years old of Cloverdale, was sentenced today toten years in state prison by the Honorable Julie Conger following a two-month-longMay trial in which a Sonoma County jury found Hudson guilty of nine counts oftheft from an elder adult. Read full story
October 05, 2018 | Board of Supervisors Department
Sonoma County Releases Alert and Warning Exercise Findings in Report
Sonoma County Division of Emergency Management, in collaboration with local public safety agencies, conducted a first of its kind alert and warning exercise on the West Coast of the United States on September 10 and 12, 2018. Read full story
October 04, 2018 | Office of the District Attorney
Man Sentenced in Felony Assault of Bicyclist on Joe Rodota Trail
DefendantMichael Anthony Howard-Lafond, 20 years old of Sonoma County, was sentencedtoday by the Honorable Christopher Honigsberg after pleading no contest inSeptember of this year to felony assault by means of force likely to producegreat bodily injury. The charges were the result of a May, 2018 incident whereHoward-Lafond punched a bicyclist in the face on the Joe Rodota Trail. Read full story
October 04, 2018 | Office of the District Attorney
Petaluma Man Sentenced in Robbery of Petaluma Business Owner
DefendantJason Lloyd Bryson, 47 years old of Petaluma, wassentenced today by the Honorable Jennifer Dollard to 20 years in state prisonafter he was found guilty by a jury in July of this year of committing robberyand making criminal threats. Read full story