Petaluma News

Published: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 at 8:34 p.m. Last Modified: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 at 8:34 p.m. For the third time, the Petaluma City Council on Tuesday night appointed new planning commissioners in an effort to finally put to rest an issue that has confounded the divided council for the better part of this year.

Published: Monday, November 9, 2009 at 5:08 p.m. Last Modified: Monday, November 9, 2009 at 5:08 p.m. The annual Petaluma's Veterans Day Parade will begin at 1 p.m. Wednesday and wind its way through downtown Petaluma with 120 entries.

Published: Monday, November 9, 2009 at 5:35 p.m. Last Modified: Monday, November 9, 2009 at 5:35 p.m. After months of discord and accusations of political maneuvering, the Petaluma City Council's recent vote to merge two planning boards into one - removing all but three of the 12 sitting members - appeared to put an end to the controversy.

Published: Monday, November 9, 2009 at 7:28 a.m. Last Modified: Monday, November 9, 2009 at 7:28 a.m. A gang member remained in custody Monday in Sonoma County Jail after Petaluma police reported finding him with a loaded handgun, ammunition and marijuana, police reported.

John Ellis calls him "the ultimate green candidate: he's recycled" - is turning up everywhere.

Published: Friday, November 6, 2009 at 5:26 p.m. Last Modified: Friday, November 6, 2009 at 5:26 p.m. Petaluma City Councilman David Glass will seek the city's mayoral seat now that Mayor Pam Torliatt is running for the Sonoma County board of supervisors.

Published: Friday, November 6, 2009 at 8:17 a.m. Last Modified: Friday, November 6, 2009 at 8:17 a.m. An unidentified man was critically injured when his stalled car was struck on Highway 101 in Petaluma early Friday, causing him to be ejected from the driver's side window, the CHP said.

Puccini's La Boheme is one of those operas that means something even to people who have never seen it.

As expected, several state parks in Sonoma County are now operating at reduced hours, reflecting declining financial support from Sacramento.

Published: Tuesday, November 3, 2009 at 7:45 a.m. Last Modified: Tuesday, November 3, 2009 at 7:45 a.m. Amid the intrigue of a shopping center developer's offer to prepay taxes and police on the way to deal with a recalcitrant ex-city councilman, Petaluma City Council members on Monday night got a taste of how thorny this next round of budget cuts ...

Published: Wednesday, October 28, 2009 at 5:29 p.m. Last Modified: Wednesday, October 28, 2009 at 5:29 p.m. Petaluma Mayor Pam Torliatt announced Wednesday she will seek election to the 2nd District seat on the Sonoma County board of supervisors.

Published: Saturday, October 31, 2009 at 3:00 a.m. Last Modified: Saturday, October 31, 2009 at 10:34 p.m. Petaluma City Council members on Monday are set to reconfigure a new Planning Commission in what has been billed either as a move toward efficiency or a power-grab by the slow-growth majority.

Published: Thursday, October 29, 2009 at 4:23 p.m. Last Modified: Thursday, October 29, 2009 at 4:23 p.m. Despite millions of dollars in cuts and more than three dozen layoffs in the past year, Petaluma officials say they must trim more than $2 million more in the next eight months to balance the budget.

Fifteen years ago, California voters passed the strictest three strikes sentencing law in the nation.

Plans to sell Sonoma County's Central Landfill and three transfer stations and turn its waste disposal operations over to an Arizona company for 20 years failed Tuesday afternoon with two supervisors voting against the divestiture proposal.

For one father, what happened to nine-year-old murder victim Elizabeth Olten is a reminder of his own family tragedy.

The U.S. Coast Guard today will celebrate the completion of a solar energy construction project designed to power its training facility in Petaluma using renewable energy for the next 25 years.

Across the Bay Area, one of the few places to get the swine flu vaccine is in Sonoma County.

Petaluma, Calif.-based laser company Raydiance Corp. announced it has made a major breakthrough in manufacturing a wide variety of bioabsorbable materials with precise, micron-resolution feature sizes and with no heat-affected zones.

The Sonoma County Department of Public Health is offering H1N1 flu vaccinations in Windsor and Petaluma on Saturday to priority groups.