Good morning, Santa Rosa.

Santa Rosa now has a new shelter on Arrowood Drive that offers 40 private or semi-private rooms and on-site services such as case management, therapy, and medication support—designed to help high-need residents move toward stable housing through a partnership between Sonoma County Behavioral Health and the Felton Institute.

Montgomery Village in Santa Rosa is welcoming 11 new brands this fall as Anthropologie opened on Oct.22 at 2404 Magowan Drive; Sweetgreen will debut on Nov.4 while Bluemercury, Vuori, Free People, Sephora and Beach By Everything but Water are planned to open along with renovated community spaces—the Green and The Terrace.

Ume Tea, a Silicon Valley bubble tea franchise, is opening its first North Bay shop at Santa Rosa Plaza today as part of a series of new retail additions; Dave & Buster’s and P.F.

Chang’s have been delayed until January and late 2026 — changing the mall’s schedule.

The Santa Rosa City Schools board approved measures to explore a parcel tax — which needs supermajority voter support — and to sell three closed campuses while also cutting top administrator salaries to address a $15 million budget shortfall and prevent a state takeover.

Union leaders criticized the cuts and urged focusing on reducing administrative costs instead of impacting classroom staff.