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Santa Rosa Press Democrat
April 27, 2018
Sonoma State University and three other California State University schools were cited this week by the state auditor for shortcomings in protecting students and staff members from hazardous materials used on their campuses. The four campuses “did not completely comply with requirements related to theÃâà...
Patch.com
April 27, 2018
ROHNERT PARK-COTATI, CA — Do you sometimes feel no one is tooting a horn for your community? Do you wish you had a platform to sing the praises of people and events that make your community special? If you love your community, sign up to become a Patch Mayor. Here are three reasons why youÃâà...
Santa Rosa Press Democrat
April 25, 2018
A Berkeley man suspected of drunken driving and arrested Monday night by Rohnert Park police after a chase and crash had a loaded gun in his car, police said Tuesday . A caller worried about a possible drunken driver called police just after 8 p.m. Monday to alert officers the man was driving a truckÃâà...
Santa Rosa Press Democrat
April 25, 2018
Rohnert Park police were investigating two similar reports of a man trying to rob people at gunpoint in apartment complex parking lots. The most recent case occurred about 12:10 a.m. Tuesday at the Oak View of Sonoma Hills apartments on Rohnert Park Expressway and Snyder Lane, officials said. A manÃâà...
Petaluma Argus Courier
April 25, 2018
Petaluma-born attorney Maurice Fredericks and his partner, Paul Golis, did something unusual in the mid-1950s. They made a city. Golis, the assertive idea man, and Fredericks, the reserved workhorse, wrangled a deal to build atop the former Rohnert Seed Farm near Cotati a from-scratch, thoroughlyÃâà...
Santa Rosa Press Democrat
April 24, 2018
A long-awaited third firehouse in Rohnert Park is expected to encounter another delay after all construction bids came back at least $1.5 million over budget, in part because of rising labor costs from the communitywide fire rebuild effort. Staff is requesting City Council reject each of the nine contractorÃâà...
Patch.com
April 17, 2018
ROHNERT PARK-COTATI, CA — From retail and management jobs to positions in automotive and healthcare, the listings in this week's employment postings on our Rohnert Park-Cotati Jobs Board are chock-full of opportunities for those on the hunt for the perfect job. We have curated some of the mostÃâà...
SFGate
April 15, 2018
Santa Rosa police arrested a Rohnert Park man Thursday on suspicion of having sex with a minor, a police sergeant said. Laiken Tully James, 21, was prohibited from using social media and required to stay away from minors as part of his pre-trial supervision in a pending sex with a minor and pimpingÃâà...
North Bay Business Journal
April 14, 2018
The Rohnert Park Planning Commission approved a proposal Thursday night that would allow 6.5 acres of land owned by the parent company of The Press Democrat to be reclassified from industrial to residential use. The change would allow Sonoma Media Investments, LLC to sell the property toÃâà...
Santa Rosa Press Democrat
April 14, 2018
A Rohnert Park man awaiting trial on pimping and underage sex charges was arrested again Thursday by Santa Rosa police on suspicion of having sex with a minor. Laiken James, 21, was initially arrested Nov. 28 on suspicion of sex with a minor, oral copulation with a minor and pimping, police said.
Santa Rosa Press Democrat
April 13, 2018
The Rohnert Park Planning Commission approved a proposal Thursday night that would allow 6.5 acres of land owned by the parent company of The Press Democrat to be reclassified from industrial to residential use. The change would allow Sonoma Media Investments, LLC to sell the property toÃâà...
Santa Rosa Press Democrat
April 13, 2018
Rohnert Park will for the first time impose a fee on developers of rental housing to help spur creation of more affordable units, while exempting one of the single-largest projects in the city — redevelopment of a 32-acre downtown property to create a long coveted city center. The City Council worked throughÃâà...
Santa Rosa Press Democrat
March 31, 2018
A Windsor family of five was displaced by a fire that broke out under their double-wide mobile home Saturday, a few hours after an old wooden barn burned to the ground near Rohnert Park, a fire official said. The blaze beneath the mobile home in the Evergreen Mobile Home Park off Old RedwoodÃâà...
Santa Rosa Press Democrat
March 29, 2018
The former operator of a Rohnert Park senior care home was sentenced Thursday to six months in jail on a charge of criminal elder abuse related to the 2016 death of a client in her care. Jovita Bishop, 57, has until June 1 to report to jail, although she may qualify for work release or other jail alternatives,Ãâà...
Santa Rosa Press Democrat
March 27, 2018
Traffic congestion on major streets is the top issue residents want Rohnert Park to tackle in the coming year, according to new data from the city's third annual poll designed to gauge the community's quality of life. Of the more than 2,600 participants, 15 percent who responded to a question about the itemÃâà...
SFGate
March 27, 2018
The United States Geological Survey reports a preliminary magnitude 2.5 earthquake struck near Rohnert Park, CA on Monday. The quake hit at 12:58 PM local time at a depth of 6 kilometers. Several people between Rhonert Park and Santa Rosa reported feeling the shaking, which was centered near the intersection ofÃâà...
Patch.com
March 27, 2018
Rohnert Park Department of Public Safety detectives got an arrest warrant and took the 55-year-old Santa Rosa man into custody. ... ROHNERT PARK, CA — Rohnert Park Department of Public Safety officers arrested a Santa Rosa man Friday for allegedly molesting his former stepdaughter and her friend.
SFGate
March 26, 2018
After years of a highly unusual plumbing problem, a neighborhood outside of Rohnert Park can finally breathe easy. A thorough investigation of a home in Rohnert Park has led investigators to believe they've found the source of the city's constant sewage blockages, which may have also contaminatedÃâà...
Petaluma Argus Courier
March 26, 2018
It was a mystery: What was causing backups to a sewer line in a neighborhood outside Rohnert Park? This was no ordinary plumbing problem. It required the city to repeatedly unclog its underground sewer system, and may have spoiled private wells serving nearby homes. Investigators now think theyÃâà...
Santa Rosa Press Democrat
March 25, 2018
A 55-year-old Santa Rosa man was arrested Friday by Rohnert Park detectives on suspicion of molesting a relative and another girl years ago, police said. The relative had reported in 2013, when she was 11, that Randall Cover had repeatedly molested her when she was 8, Rohnert Park Sgt. Jeff JusticeÃâà...
Santa Rosa Press Democrat
March 25, 2018
It was a mystery: What was causing backups to a sewer line in a neighborhood outside Rohnert Park? This was no ordinary plumbing problem. It required the city to repeatedly unclog its underground sewer system, and may have spoiled private wells serving nearby homes. Investigators now think theyÃâà...
Santa Rosa Press Democrat
March 19, 2018
Rohnert Park police late Sunday night arrested a driver suspected of driving while intoxicated and hit and run. The crash occurred just before midnight on Heron Court in northeast Rohnert Park. Officers arrested Lawrence Stold, 58, suspecting he was drunk when he drove into another vehicle in theÃâà...
Santa Rosa Press Democrat
March 5, 2018
Three Rohnert Park residents displaced in mobile home fire ... had left about 25 minutes before neighbors noticed smoke coming from under the home and the windows about 1 p.m., Rohnert Park Public Safety said in a statement. ... Anyone who finds the cat is asked to call Rohnert Park Animal Services.
Santa Rosa Press Democrat
March 4, 2018
Judson Snyder, the voice of journalism in Rohnert Park and Cotati for the past 40-plus years, wrote a folksy and opinionated column every week for the Community Voice, making every deadline through a decade of failing health except for the last one. The 92-year-old Snyder died Saturday at a caregiver'sÃâà...
Patch.com
December 31, 1999
ROHNERT PARK, CA — A man suspected of robbing a woman of her purse in the parking lot of a Rohnert Park apartment complex and trying to rob a man at another apartment complex was apprehended Tuesday evening thanks to a clerk at the local Auto Zone, according to the Rohnert Park DepartmentÃâà...
Santa Rosa Press Democrat
December 31, 1999
The partners called it Rohnert Park and nicknamed it “The Friendly City.” Fredericks located both his law practice and his family home there, and he was still living there with his wife of 57 years, Betty, when he died Friday at the age of 93. In addition to co-founding Sonoma County's third-largest city,Ãâà...
Patch.com
December 31, 1999
ROHNERT PARK, CA — A woman was arrested on suspicion of drunk driving in connection with a collision in a Walmart parking lot in Rohnert Park that left a pedestrian with major injuries Thursday. Kathy Jean Barella, 58, was arrested on suspicion of felony drunk driving, according to the Rohnert ParkÃâà...
Santa Rosa Press Democrat
December 31, 1999
A man was seriously injured Thursday when a suspected drunken driver backing a vehicle out of a parking space at a Rohnert Park Walmart store knocked him down and drove over him, police officials said. The 66-year-old San Francisco man was rushed to Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital with majorÃâà...
7x7
December 31, 1999
Sally Tomatoes, in Rohnert Park, was just the place—the venue has welcomed acts including the Goo Goo Dolls, UB40, Dirty Heads, Michael Franti, and Ziggy Marley. Their decor was dusted with gold accents and DIY touches—glitter candle holders, and doilies handmade by Montenegro's grandmother.
