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Get this: Gracianna Winery in Healdsburg is now offering virtual wine tastings. Basically, they'll mail a $75 kit to everyone in your tasting group, including four different wines and "tasting note cards" for each — then host a live, guided tasting for the group...

The Quezadas family of Healdsburg is making their famous tamales again this holiday season. "Christmas is coming and you all know what that means," Luis Quezadas writes on Facebook. "My mom is making chicken and pork tamales again. $25 a dozen. We’re a 2 person team so bare...

Agave Healdsburg, the well-loved Mexican food joint in the Safeway shopping center, will be closed through the end of this weekend for a "holiday season break." They reopen next Monday, Jan. 8. (Facebook Groups & Agave Healdsburg)

Big PSA tonight! The third annual Lunar New Year festival planned for the Healdsburg plaza tomorrow has been canceled because of this storm headed our way. Even though organizers had planned to hold the event "rain or shine," due to the predicted intensity of...

Healdsburg father of six Joe De Benedetti, who was deeply involved in local schools and the wine industry, has passed away at age 91. After a stint in the U.S. Navy during the Korean War, and some years living and working down in Pacifica,...

Salomon Reyes, a longtime employee at E&M Motors and familiar face around Healdsburg, has passed away at age 65. Salomon was born in the Mexican state of Michoacán, according to his obituary, and immigrated to Sonoma County when he was 25. More from Salomon's obituary: "He...

Of eight public art projects funded by last year's round of city art grants, the final one has made its debut! It's an "array of programmable LED lights" on the front facade of the old Healdsburg Museum building on Matheson Street — a $5,000 installation...

The planning process will officially begin tonight for a new, "multicultural" wellness center here in Healdsburg. "We are thrilled to share the exciting news that we are beginning work with our partners for the development of a vision for a Community Wellness Center," local...

Two teen boys were stabbed last Sunday night along the Foss Creek Pathway, near the Healdsburg skate park off Grove Street, according to local police. Here's their full announcement: "At about 10:30 pm, the Healdsburg Police Department received a call from a victim of...