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Santa Rosa motorcyclist injured in Fountaingrove crash
A motorcyclist suffered life-threatening injuries Friday morning after crashing on Fountaingrove Parkway in Santa Rosa, police said. The crash, which involved no other vehicles, was reported about 6:20 a.m. at Parker Hill Road, according to the Santa Rosa Police Department. An early investigation determined the motorcyclist was heading west on Fountaingrove and “may have been driving ...
For more than 50 years, fuchsia has been a favorite of Sebastopol gardener
Carlyss Van Ness remembers the first one. She spotted it at a nursery near Freestone - a flowering plant so pretty it simply had to come home with her. That was 1970. She has babied that plant for more than 50 years and it still has an honored spot in her own secret garden. Over the decades 150 to 200 other fuchsias have since joined the first one on the same Sebastopol property where she ...
Grange Fire in Mendocino County prompts evacuations, closes Highway 128
Firefighting resources were still en route to the Grange Fire in Mendocino County’s Anderson Valley as of 7 p.m. Thursday, but it appeared that firefighters were getting the upper hand as evening arrived. Mandatory evacuation orders remained in effect for three evacuations zones in the Philo area―MEN-3B0N01-A, MEN-3BON02-B and MEN-3BON03-B―and evacuation warnings had been issued for five ...
Newsom’s order to clear homeless encampments worries advocates, but local officials say little is likely to change
Sonoma County advocates for people who are experiencing homelessness reacted with alarm Thursday to Gov. Gavin Newsom’s same-day executive order to California agencies to remove homeless encampments from state property. North Bay officials, meanwhile, said they were analyzing the local implications of the order but suggested that Newsom’s directive would not immediately produce any changes in ...
Man arrested on suspicion of starting Flora Fire east of Healdsburg. Cal Fire says he drove more than 4 miles without a tire
A Redding-area man has been arrested in connection with Wednesday’s Flora Fire outside Healdsburg and Windsor, which Cal Fire says he started by driving his truck more than four miles without a right front tire. The state fire agency alleges Justin Roy Jones, 44, of Anderson, started the fire by allowing metal, apparently from his wheel, to grind against the asphalt on Chalk Hill Road east of ...
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