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Your chance to get answers about road repairs

Tuesday, at 6:40 by

Plenty of Road Warrior readers write in to tell us how bad Sonoma County’s roads are. Now, you have a chance to ask county officials what they plan to do to fix them. From 5 to 7 p.m. Wednesday, county Supervisors Shirlee Zane and David Rabbitt and Public Works Director Phil Demery will attend a forum in Rohnert Park put on by the group Save Our Sonoma Roads at Sally Tomatoes in Rohnert Park’s Sonoma Mountain Village — the old… Read More »

Group pushing for better roads netting headlines, success

Monday, at 4:02 by

It’s only about a year old, but the group Save Our Sonoma Roads is making headlines and scoring some success. Last Tuesday, the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors approved spending $6.5 million on repairs for 13.2 miles of roads — a feat that SOS Roads takes some credit for. Last Thursday, the Wall St. Journal published a story in its Bay Area edition on SOS’s campaign to get the county to spend more on road repairs. The article promptly was… Read More »