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2/3/2012
A Sebastopol woman has died after suffering a brain aneurym while skiing with her family in the Sierra Nevada, 51 year-old Sarah Wadsworth lost consciousness Tuesday and was taken to a hospital in Reno. Doctors could not revive her and Wadsworth was declared brain-dead on Wednesday. Wadsworth taught French at Petaluma High School for more than twenty years. Just last year she was voted Teacher of the Year.
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2/3/2012
Sonoma County's effort to prevent an Alexander Valley Indian tribe from regaining tribal status is being rejected. A federal judge ruled the county cannot intervene in a request by the Wappo Indians to be recognized with full status, benefits and historical land rights. County administrators are worried that the Wappos want to open a gambling casino. An attorney for the county says they can still appeal any final decision by the Interior Department.
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2/3/2012
This year's North Bay abalone season will open on schedule. The state Fish and Game Commission will end an emergency ban on harvesting along most of the Sonoma County coast.line. Regulators ended the last abalone seaosn early due to a red tide algae bloom and a subsequent die-off of shellfish. The restrictions will end on March 31. The abalone season near Fort Ross will open two months later under newly-adopted regulations.
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2/2/2012
A Petaluma High School teacher is reportedly on life-support at a Reno hospital after suffering a severe brain injury. 51 year-old Sarah Wadsworth of Sebastopol was skiing with her teenage son when she suffered an aneurism that has left her brain-dead. Her husband, Greg Brausen says doctors give her no chance of surviving and the family is now deciding her fate. Wadsworth was named Teacher of the Year last year. She taught French and coached the girls' tennis team.
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2/2/2012
Investigators are trying to explain how a Santa Rosa teenager got ahold of the date-rape drug known as GHB that led to her death last summer. 14 year-old Takeimi Rao died after a sleepover party in July. Three other girls also came down sick but recovered. Local drug counselors say they don't see many Sonoma County teenagers using the chemical, although it is popular at so-called "rave" parties. It's still unknown if Rao took the drug intentionally or by accident. The teens have admitted to drinking vodka that night but the source of the GHB is still not clear.
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2/2/2012
There is a new an unexpected consequence to the shutdown of Santa Rosa's Redevelopment Agency. A brand new school campus in the Roseland District may not be able to open for a while because about $500,000 in redevelopment funds were to be used to build a sidewalk in the neighborhood. But without the sidewalk, city officials say it would be too dangerous to have students walking to school, so the $23-million facility will stay closed for now. The school was expected to open this fall with 400-500 students. City officials are now deciding how to spend some remaining redevelopment funds, so it's possible the sidewak could still be built.
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2/1/2012
Immediately after fighting off an effort to repeal its funding authority, the SMART rail project is unveling a new slogan and proposed color scheme for the train cars. Even though it is not certain when the train will connect to Healdsburg, Windsor and Cloverdale, SMART is launching a campaign called "There's A Train Coming To Town" and announcing that the rail cars will be painted green and silver. SMART intends to run shuttle buses from the three north cities to the train station in Santa Rosa's Railroad Square until the northern depots can be established.
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2/1/2012
Authorities have a startling revelation in the death of a 14 year-old Santa Rosa girl last summer. Takeimi Rao reportedly died from an overdose of the "date-rape" drug known as GHB. The Rincon Valley Middle School students was found dead after a sleepover at her home last July. Initially it was thought she died of acute alchohol poisoning, but tests soon revealed that was not the case. Additional tests were conducted, leading to this latest information. Investigators have not determined if she ingested the drug intentionally or accidentally. The chemical is popular among young people attending dance clubs and so-called "rave parties".
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2/1/2012
Two Santa Rosa schools have reported possible cases of Norovirus in the past week. At Monroe Elementary School the principal reports a steady number of students going home or calling in sick with stomach cramps and nausea. Last week, Rincon Valley Middle School reported up to a dozen sudents complained of similar symptoms. Sonoma County health officials say the disease spreads rapidly and advise parents to keep their youbgsters at home if they display the symptoms. The illness usually lasts just a day or two.
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1/31/2012
The effort to qualify a ballot measure to stop the controversial Sonoma Marin Area Rail Transit project appears to have fallen short. Officials with the Sonoma and Marin County elections departments confirm that the group RepealSMART did not submit enough valid signatures to force another vote on the quarter-cent sales tax that is funding the train project to connect the two counties.Opponents had argued that the project as it is currently envisioned - substantially less ambitious than originally discussed - is not the one voters were promised when the sales tax was approved.
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