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  • 5-time DUI offender arrested for buying alcohol

    BY MARY CALLAHAN, THE PRESS DEMOCRAT
    Friday November 20, 2009 3:07 pm

    A five-time drunken-driving offender was arrested in Petaluma on Friday for purchasing five bottles of wine in violation of his probation, police said.

  • Target shopping center, silk mill hotel on agenda

    Friday November 20, 2009 12:52 pm

    The Petaluma Planning Commission next week will consider a proposed shopping center and a recommendation to transform a historic factory into a hotel and restaurant.

  • Clo the Cow gets a new pun

    By ROBERT DIGITALE, THE PRESS DEMOCRAT
    Friday November 20, 2009 10:59 am

    Move over Clint Eastwood. The winning slogan from Clover Stornetta Farm's billboard contest will have the company's bovine star boasting, "Clo Ahead, Milk My Day."

  • More National Guard troops set to return today

    Friday November 20, 2009 9:22 am

    A second group of California National Guard soldiers returning from a one-year tour in Afghanistan is scheduled to arrive today at the Petaluma Armory.

  • Future water supply unclear

    By JAY GAMEL, FOR THE ARGUS-COURIER
    Friday November 20, 2009 3:00 am

    The future of Petaluma’s water supply is much less clear today than it was a year ago, when plans were well under way to build a second supply line from Cotati to Kastania Road, south of Petaluma, a valuable redundancy for a city that gets 90 percent or more of its water through a single, 50-year-old pipe.

  • Council pay cut floated for budget woes

    By COREY YOUNG, ARGUS-COURIER STAFF
    Thursday November 19, 2009 2:18 pm

    If Petaluma City Council members give up part of the compensation they receive, city employees might decide to do the same with their salaries — a relatively simple cost-cutting measure, one councilman is suggesting.

  • New finance chief at City Hall

    Thursday November 19, 2009 4:10 pm

    The city of Petaluma has hired a new interim finance director, City Manager John Brown announced Monday.

  • Artist Jeanne-Claude dies; co-created 'Running Fence'

    By CHRIS SMITH, THE PRESS DEMOCRAT
    Thursday November 19, 2009 10:45 am

    International artist Jeanne-Claude, half of the audaciously creative team that introduced Sonoma County to the world in 1976 by stretching a billowing curtain from Cotati to the sea, died Wednesday in New York City.

  • Man hospitalized after crashing car into ditch

    Thursday November 19, 2009 9:43 am

    A Petaluma man remained in critical condition Thursday after driving his pickup into a ditch off Bodega Avenue, apparently as the result of a heart attack, fire and law enforcement officials said.

  • Police log

    Thursday November 19, 2009 4:13 pm

    Here are some of the cases the Petaluma police responded to recently.

  • Sheriff's log

    Thursday November 19, 2009 4:15 pm

    The Sonoma County Sheriff’s Department responded to the following calls in the south county during the last week.

  • Fire calls

    Thursday November 19, 2009 4:16 pm

    The Petaluma Fire Department received 62 medical and 34 fire or other emergency calls from Nov. 9 to 15. Here are some of the incidents the department responded to.

  • City hires firm for economic strategic plan

    By COREY YOUNG, ARGUS-COURIER STAFF
    Thursday November 19, 2009 3:00 am

    Working to accomplish its top goal for the year, the City Council on Monday approved a $139,000 contract with a Walnut Creek firm to draft an economic strategy for Petaluma.

  • Flu clinic set for Casa Grande on Saturday

    Wednesday November 18, 2009 3:28 pm

    A free, H1N1 (swine) flu-vaccine clinic for people in five specific target groups will be offered at Casa Grande High School on Saturday, Nov. 21.

  • Rabbitt joins race for supervisor

    Wednesday November 18, 2009 1:27 pm

    Petaluma City Councilmember David Rabbitt has joined the race for the south county supervisor’s seat being vacated next year by Mike Kerns.

  • Crash at deadly Cotati intersection injures Petaluma teen

    By JEREMY HAY, THE PRESS DEMOCRAT
    Tuesday November 17, 2009 3:00 am

    A Petaluma teenager remained in critical condition Tuesday one day after a car accident on Highway 116 outside Cotati at the same spot of a fatal crash in October.

  • Manager of Petaluma company faces prison for embezzlement

    By PAUL PAYNE, THE PRESS DEMOCRAT
    Tuesday November 17, 2009 5:19 pm

    A Santa Rosa man faces a six-year prison term when he is sentenced next month for embezzling hundreds of thousands of dollars from a Petaluma firm.

  • Music teacher to be tried on two sex charges

    Tuesday November 17, 2009 4:12 pm

    A Sonoma County judge has ruled that there is enough evidence for a case involving a Petaluma music teacher accused of two felony sexual offenses against a 10-year-old student to move forward to a jury trial.

  • Community effort aims to get youth 'Ready by 21'

    By JAY GAMEL, FOR THE ARGUS-COURIER
    Tuesday November 17, 2009 1:05 pm

    Ready by 21 is the latest development in an ongoing effort to help Petaluma’s youth achieve the most out of their education and life experiences growing up.

  • 6 habitual DUI drivers arrested

    Tuesday November 17, 2009 10:24 am

    Petaluma police arrested six habitual DUI drivers during a special enforcement operation within the past week.

  • Rancho Adobe board president resigns

    By DAN JOHNSON, ARGUS-COURIER STAFF
    Monday November 16, 2009 12:54 pm

    The president of the Rancho Adobe Fire Protection District board, who recently pleaded guilty to the misdemeanor crime of falsely reporting a crime, has resigned.

 

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