Briefs

The county's official list of "warming centers" for the homeless this season does not include St. Paul's Church on Matheson Street, which has historically served as Healdsburg's local shelter. Instead, the go-to will now be L&M Village — our new motel-turned-shelter at the south end of...

The race to take Healdsburg politician Jim Wood's second district seat in the California State Assembly, which covers large swaths of rural NorCal, has been seriously heating up in recent weeks. The seat will be up for grabs in November, because Wood has decided...

We have an end in sight, at last, for the renovation project that has kept the Fitch Mountain trails closed since last summer. The city is planning a big reopening party for the trail system and dog park next to the Villa Chanticleer on...

There are two interesting sculpture-related events happening in Healdsburg in the coming days. First, a group of local students and their advisors — including local artist Jendala Utsch, known for those colorful chimes she makes with inspiring messages on them — will be installing an...

So we made it through the first of these two back-to-back storms coming through. Healdsburg reportedly got around 4 to 6 inches of rain over the past few days, since it started coming down early Wednesday morning — and forecasters say another big storm should...

The Alexander Valley Winegrowers group, which oversees all the grape-growing activity in the valley northeast of Healdsburg, is hosting their local grapevine pruning contest this Feb. 13, aka Valentine's Eve, for the 24th year. All workers at Alexander Valley vineyards are invited to enter...

A TV news crew from CBS stopped by our little town during the recent storm to explore a clever news angle. "One Sonoma County town remembers three years ago, when their water supply almost ran dry," the CBS anchor says in the resulting segment....

We must really be on the verge of summer, because coming up next weekend is Healdsburg's favorite tradition, celebrating its "diamond" 75th anniversary this year: the FFA parade through town and the fair afterward at Rec Park. It's an ag fiesta of the largest...

Tonight is the big kickoff game at Rec Park for the Healdsburg Prune Packers' 2024 summer baseball season. Our town mayor will be throwing the first pitch, as is tradition. The Prune Packers are a century-old team playing in the California Collegiate League, which...

There's only a couple of days left to apply for some of the grant money being offered by Healdsburg's Tourism Improvement District, to anyone who wants to organize "arts, cultural and educational activities" that will encourage people to come stay in Healdsburg this summer...