Cloverdale News

Published: Saturday, March 13, 2010 at 3:00 a.m. Last Modified: Thursday, March 11, 2010 at 12:26 p.m. We tend to think of Sonoma County as a fairly built-up place, as nighttime views from the top of Fountaingrove Parkway looking west across the Santa Rosa plain reveal.

Hundreds of Cloverdale High School students walked out of class to protest proposed teacher cuts in the district.

Hundreds of Cloverdale High School students walked out of classes on Monday morning to protest teacher cuts at the school.

Published: Sunday, March 14, 2010 at 12:49 p.m. Last Modified: Sunday, March 14, 2010 at 12:49 p.m. Cloverdale's Friday Night Live concerts were started seven years ago to to attract people downtown, and judging by the growing attendance, they're working.

Published: Saturday, March 13, 2010 at 9:52 a.m. Last Modified: Saturday, March 13, 2010 at 9:52 a.m. Nine members of a Cloverdale family were held at gunpoint Friday night during what police say was a violent home invasion robbery in which two people were beaten and four were bound with duct tape while four robbers ransacked their South Street ...

Cloverdale resident Brian Patenaude, left, takes his dogs Boomer, left and Cubby, right, for a walk three times a week in downtown Cloverdale.

Published: Friday, February 19, 2010 at 3:06 p.m. Last Modified: Friday, February 19, 2010 at 3:06 p.m. Someone out there knows how it happened, police believe, maybe recalls in fine detail the sights and sounds of the roadside encounter that ended Kody Williams' life.

The City of Cloverdale is working on a plan to restore the downtown district to its former position of importance to the community.

Published: Monday, February 22, 2010 at 4:02 a.m. Last Modified: Monday, February 22, 2010 at 4:02 a.m. Cloverdale had its beginnings as a transportation hub with the construction of its first tavern in 1856 alongside a pack trail.

Published: Saturday, February 20, 2010 at 7:21 p.m. Last Modified: Saturday, February 20, 2010 at 7:21 p.m. In a jab landing squarely on his opponent in the north Sonoma County supervisorial contest, Mike McGuire is circulating an Internet-based petition that challenges Debora Fudge's leadership role on the SMART rail board.

As if we cannot get enough of a good thing, it seems that some folks up in Cloverdale are pushing to get a Trader Joe's store built there! It was recently reported in the Press Democrat that people in Sonoma County are the happiest in the state, and now we may be getting even happier! Though Cloverdale only has about 8000 folks, they feel that the ...

Think of it as the foodie version of cuckoos, who take eggs from other birds' nests.

IN NOVEMBER 2008, nearly 70 percent of the voters in Sonoma and Marin counties supported the Sonoma-Marin Area Rail Transit project, a 70-mile passenger train and pathway connecting all the cities along Highway 101, from Cloverdale to Larkspur.

Published: Thursday, February 11, 2010 at 3:00 a.m. Last Modified: Thursday, February 11, 2010 at 9:44 p.m. The chances of Sonoma County voters weighing in on the issue of Indian casinos in June appeared to dim significantly Thursday after representatives for all nine cities in the county voted to postpone action on a proposed ballot measure.

Published: Wednesday, February 10, 2010 at 6:16 p.m. Last Modified: Wednesday, February 10, 2010 at 6:16 p.m. Sonoma County voters may get a chance to weigh in this year on the issue of Indian casinos.

Bear Republic and Central City Fighting Over Name Confusion February 10, 5:37 PM Birmingham Craft Beer Examiner Guillermo Woolfolk There appears to be more fighting in the beer world over brand names.

Published: Thursday, February 4, 2010 at 6:15 p.m. Last Modified: Thursday, February 4, 2010 at 6:15 p.m. Sonoma-Marin Area Rail Transit will hold a series of public hearings, beginning Monday in Cotati, to find out what people want their train stations to look like.

Published: Tuesday, February 2, 2010 at 6:34 p.m. Last Modified: Tuesday, February 2, 2010 at 6:34 p.m. With the probability fading of federal funds to bridge a $155 million spending gap, rail planners meet today to review strategy to start commute service between Sonoma and Marin counties.

DESPITE REPEATED assurances, leaders of Sonoma-Marin Area Rail Transit now say they probably won't be able to have passenger trains rolling on all of its 70 miles of by 2014.

We had just left Hwy 101 onto 128 on the way to Anderson Valley today when i spied a large "BBQ" sign so we stopped.