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Fun things to do with kids in Santa Rosa: Rock climbing at Vertex Climbing Center, hiking at Trione-Annadel State Park, weaving a basket at California Indian Museum and Cultural Center, learning about plants at Luther Burbank Home & Gardens, playing at Epicenter Sports & Entertainment Complex: Rockin' Jump Trampoline Park, 7Ten Social Upscale Bowling & Lounge, Game On Arcade, XD Dark Ride, and dining at Victory House Sports Bar & Restaurant.

Visiting Santa Rosa, California: Having fun at Children's Museum of Sonoma County, ice skating for the first time at Snoopy's Home Ice, checking out the Charles M. Schulz Museum and Research Center, watching some illusions at Shuffle's Magical Ice Cream Shoppe, and staying at The Flamingo Resort and Spa.

Embarking on an African expedition in the Sonoma Serengeti with Safari West, Santa Rosa California.

Project Homekey provides money for local governments across CaliforniaPexel Image Archive. Despite a five percent increase in the number of homeless individuals in Sonoma County since the start of the pandemic, a state program is helping to move people into permanent housing in Sonoma County.

New affordable housing to be built.Marc Albert, KRCB Sonoma County News. A large, affordable housing complex in Santa Rosa is closer to breaking ground. If all goes according to plan, 135 local families struggling to keep a roof over their heads, will find safe harbor in December of next year.

Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital HelicopterSonoma County Archive. Residents east of downtown Santa Rosa don't expect the silence of a remote mountain village. But their patience with the thumping whoosh of helicopter blades wore thin long ago. Next week, that may start changing.

Professional baseball is coming to Santa Rosa. The city has approved the use of Doyle Park for use by a new team called the Santa Rosa Scuba Divers. One of the newest members of the Pecos League, an independent professional minor baseball league, the Santa Rosa Scuba Divers will play their inaugural home game on May 26th against the Santa Cruz Seaweed.

Most of Judd's extended family were executed by the NazisMarc Albert. A simple, four-sided pedestal with four faucets for ritual handwashing was recently re-installed at Santa Rosa Memorial Park after being damaged a second time in two years. Intended as a place of reflection to honor victims of the Nazis, repeated vandalism has left a feeling of unease among some in the local Jewish community, and also brought shows of unity and support.

A view of the recently-completed Santa Rosa mural.Noah Abrams. New public art is on display in Santa Rosa’s West End neighborhood. Nestled between Sixth Street and SMART train tracks, the Assistance League of Sonoma County’s Thrift Shop is home to a new mural. On the building's east wall, the project's title is Transforming Lives Strengthening Community and it was made in collaboration with Artstart, a local nonprofit.

Santa Rosa is in the final stages of its redistricting process. The city council chose a new map Tuesday, and heads for final approval on April 12th. The new map, called version A2, preserves the current boundaries of districts 1, 6, and 7, which cover parts of Roseland and Coffey Park. And the neighborhoods west of Stony Point Road. According to the city, Map A2 shifts about 3,000 residents among districts to meet state requirements.

Elliot Avenue Crossing DiscussionCity of Santa Rosa. The city of Santa Rosa has nixed a proposed pedestrian corridor on the Santa Rosa Junior College campus. Santa Rosa city officials dashed the hopes of Santa Rosa Junior College administrators, who were trying to see a section of Elliot Avenue, which splits the northern and southern sides of campus, restricted to pedestrian-only traffic.

A partial tax holiday for struggling cannabis growers won approval from the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors Tuesday. The board's action, after lengthy debate, temporarily cuts cultivation taxes by nearly half through the middle of next year. And, the cut is retroactive to last July.

When Isabel Lopez was a student at Santa Rosa High School’s ArtQuest program, she says she felt invisible as one of few Latina students enrolled in the program. Lopez went on to graduate from Sacramento State, before taking a corporate job.. When her position was moved out of state, Lopez says she sensed an opportunity to begin working within her community.

Sonoma County Sheriff's "Henry-1" helicopterSonoma County Sheriff's Office. Facing a financial conundrum, Sonoma County supervisors Tuesday punted a decision on the future of the sheriff's department's helicopter.

Sonoma County supervisors violated the state's open meeting laws twice last year as they worked to redraw political boundaries. That's according to a determination by Sonoma County District Attorney Jill Ravitch.

COVID Variant Reaches Sonoma CountyPhoto by Laura James. With new illnesses continuing to drop and masking requirements at schools set to end after Friday, the two year COVID nightmare is over, or perhaps not.

Sonoma County Sheriff BadgeSonoma County Sheriff's Office. Fear of arrest and deportation remains an issue in Sonoma County according to activists, despite limits on cooperation between local and immigration authorities detailed in a special county meeting last week.

Masking up against COVID in public schools is about to move from current events to history. Once they head home from school on Friday, March 11, Sonoma County students can ditch their masks. That's because broad rules requiring students to 'mask-up' at public schools throughout California, Oregon and Washington, are set to expire when clocks strike midnight a week from Saturday.

Santa Rosa city officials took more action this week towards tackling homelessness. The Santa Rosa city council has unanimously agreed to apply for up to thirteen million dollars in grants from the state’s Homekey program. It’s also approved hiring a consultancy company called Focus Strategies to help the city figure out solutions.