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Petaluma City Manager Peggy Flynn tells Council member Alex DeCarli to take it outside after DeCarli yelled at fellow council member Janice Cader Thompson at the conclusion of the April 21 council meeting. (Jennifer Sawhney / Petaluma Argus-Courier)

City Council meltdown prompts new policy on decorum

“City Council meetings are a place of respect where issues are discussed, and personal attacks are not appropriate and they’re not permitted,“ the mayor said.


The proposed Appellation Petaluma hotel project at the corner of B Street and Petaluma Boulevard South in this April 2025 rendering. (Courtesy of EKN Development)

Commentary: Neglecting downtown Petaluma is not preserving it

Students tune up in preparation of a big group song at the April 19 graduation of Petaluma’s Guitars Not Guns program. (David Templeton / Petaluma Argus-Courier)

Graduation day for Petaluma’s Guitars Not Guns program

Kaiser Permanente Santa Rosa Medical Center (pictured) and Kaiser Permanente San Rafael Medical Center were the two hospitals in the North Bay to receive “Straight A” grades for patient safety, according to a May 2025 report from the Leapfrog Group, a national watchdog organization. (Courtesy Kaiser Permanente)

National watchdog group gives top marks for safety to 8 North Bay hospitals

Workers from Yerba Buena Engineering & Construction Inc., a subcontractor for the city of Napa, clear abandoned belongings from the Kennedy Park homeless encampment, Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2024. Gov. Gavin Newsom is expected to unveil a statewide push urging cities to ban encampments on public land and adopt a model ordinance to guide enforcement. (Beth Schlanker / The Press Democrat file)

Newsom to ask cities to ban homeless encampments, escalating crackdown

This undated Caltrans photo tweeted June 8, 2023, shows construction on the Marin-Sonoma Narrows project on Highway 101, looking north just north of Novato. (Twitter / California Department of Transportation, Division 4)

Marin-Sonoma Highway 101 carpool lane hours are about to get longer during the commute

Petaluma Police officers arrested a man Friday, May 10, 2025 after he reportedly attacked someone near a pedestrian overcrossing, the agency announced in a Facebook post (Petaluma Police Department)

Man arrested after reported attack in Petaluma, police still looking for victim

Petaluma City Schools nurse Monika Carvalho (center), applauds during a speaker’s request that the school board reconsider the elimination of her position on Tuesday, February 11, 2025. (Crissy Pascual/Petaluma Argus-Courier)

Petaluma school board finalizes budget cuts, reinstates nurse position

Petaluma church marks century milestone with new time capsule

Angelo Silva of Daily Acts, right, explains grey water systems during River Clean Up Day on Saturday, May 3, 2014. (File photo)

Petaluma a finalist for ‘prestigious’ nationwide recognition

Emmett Knight, whose AmeriCorps role was cut amid federal funding losses, plays catch with 7-year-old Zarin Zamudio at Alta Heights Elementary School in Napa, Wednesday, May 7, 2025. (Beth Schlanker / The Press Democrat)

‘It’s shocking’: Sonoma and Napa AmeriCorps programs gutted by federal cuts, forcing urgent local response

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