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Kat McFee was hired as the new principal of Valley Vista Public Waldorf and will begin her new role in the 2025-26 school year. (Jason Sutter / Petaluma City Schools)

Newly merged Valley Vista Public Waldorf school gets new principal

Kat McFee, described as “passionate about bringing the Valley Vista and Live Oak Charter communities together,” will take up her role in the new school year.

Water rates are expected to increase for Petaluma residents by a few dollars a month in 2025. (Crissy Pascual / Petaluma Argus-Courier)

Petaluma’s water supplier to increase water rates, affecting residents

The former location of Jamison’s Roaring Donkey, at 146 Kentucky St. in downtown Petaluma, is slated to become Art Play Cafe, a coffee shop and entertainment space for families. (Photo by Don Frances/Argus-Courier Staff)

New coffee shop and ‘play cafe’ coming to former Roaring Donkey site

Photos: Food bank line a lifeline in Petaluma

The former Kmart building in the Plaza North Shopping Center in east Petaluma as seen on April 29, 2021 in this file photo. (CRISSY PASCUAL/ARGUS-COURIER STAFF)

Former Kmart in Petaluma will no longer sit empty

California Highway Patrol officers investigate a fatal hit-and-run collision involving a pedestrian on Petaluma Boulevard North in Petaluma on Friday, March 28, 2025. (California Highway Patrol Santa Rosa)

Pedestrian killed in overnight crash outside Petaluma, CHP looking for driver

Gloria Robinson, a celebrated community leader who co-founded Petaluma Blacks for Community Development, died on Saturday, March 22, 2025. Photo taken July 14, 2020. (Crissy Pascual / Petaluma Argus-Courier)

Celebration of life planned for Gloria Robinson

Officers with the Petaluma Police Department arrested a man on suspicion of possession of methamphetamine in the 5100 block of Old Redwood Highway Monday, March 24, 2025. This still shot from drone footage shows officers making the arrest. (Petaluma Police Department)

Petaluma police arrest man suspected of selling meth after report of brandishing firearm

Elaine and Robert Ramirez hold a photo of their son, Armand, who died of colorectal cancer in 2018 at the age of 37. The couple wants others to know that the disease can affect younger people too. Photographed on Monday, March 17, 2025. (Crissy Pascual / Petaluma Argus-Courier)

‘Your whole life changes’: Couple raises colon cancer awareness after losing son to the disease

Valley Oaks students collect items in order to make comfort kits to be distributed to homeless people with the help of Petaluma’s SAFE team on Tuesday, March 18, 2025. (Crissy Pascual / Petaluma Argus-Courier)

Valley Oaks students make care packages for city’s homeless

Jace Wooley, center, is mobbed by teammates after smacking a walk-off single to score a runner and give Cardinal Newman a 4-3 win against Casa Grande, Saturday, March 29, 2025, in Santa Rosa. (Kent Porter / The Press Democrat)

Cardinal Newman rallies past Casa Grande in showdown of top baseball squads