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Petaluma weighing future of fairgrounds site

Sixty prime acres in the middle of Petaluma. Land ripe for revenue-generating development or land to be used to encourage the area’s agricultural base?

SRJC board rejects parcel tax

Santa Rosa Junior College trustees decided Tuesday against putting a parcel tax before voters in November after board members expressed unease with the pace of the discussion. The seven-member board voted unanimously to study the issue further but set aside a proposal to pay for a consultant and a voter poll that would have opened the way to placing the issue on the presidential race ballot in the fall.