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May 7, 2025

Winter Shelter Shakeup for Healdsburg

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...

Healdsburg Switches Up Animal Control Services

The Healdsburg animal shelter on Westside Road, run by the Humane Society of Sonoma County (HSSC), just chose a new partner for animal control — aka, the job of responding to the wilier, out-of-shelter situations involving animals wandering around town. For the past decade,...

Tiny Healdsburg Music Venue Attracting Big Names in Music

Sonoma Magazine is calling the upstairs music venue at the Little Saint vegan restaurant on North Street "the most interesting music club in the Bay Area." The magazine writes: "As the restaurant continues to garner accolades for its plant-based cuisine, the second floor gathering...

Simone’s Healdsburg Event Log: March 11-19, Including St. Patrick’s

Tuesday, March 11 Women’s history scavenger hunt at the mini Healdsburg Library inside the Community Center (daily through Mar 31, 10am-6pm)“Toast Tuesday” at Costeaux French Bakery: Get a free loaf of bread when you dine in (weekly, 7:30am-3pm)Healdsburg High School softball team plays home game against Lower Lake High (3:30pm)Homework...

‘Abandoned Pipeline’ Needs Monitoring at Old Healdsburg Sewer Site, City Says

Healdsburg city officials are looking for a local firm to "provide biological monitoring services" at the stream running alongside the city's big sewer station on Magnolia Drive, at the southwest edge of town. They want the firm to report back on the "health of...

Preview: Healdsburg Climate Fest 2024

Today is Earth Day Eve, aka the greenest day of the year here in Healdsburg: Climate Fest 2024! Our homegrown environmental festival — also known as Festival del Clima, now in its second year — drew around 2,000 people to the plaza last April, according...

North Sonoma County’s Fire Safety Expo Moves Back to Cloverdale

It looks like this year's big "fire and earthquake safety expo" for northern Sonoma County is moving back up to Cloverdale, after being staged here at the Healdsburg Community Center last year. A coalition of local government agencies and community groups launched the expo in 2021 as...

In Memoriam: Sylvia Seventy, Artist and Teacher

Another one-of-a-kind Healdsburg resident passed away earlier this month from cancer at age 77, according to the Press Democrat: local textile artist and art teacher Sylvia Seventy. The fascinating, multimedia, Pomo-inspired “vessels” she made (pictured above and below) became quite well-known in certain circles of...

Healdsburg Champagne Bar Now Open

Looks like the sisters behind Healdsburg's new downtown champagne bar couldn't help but soft-open this past week, even though their official grand opening and ribbon-cutting ceremony isn't til Valentine's Day (of course). Caroline Bontia, the fun-loving lady who runs the "Shop Local Healdsburg" Instagram...

Drama Continues at Healdsburg’s Shuttered ‘Molti Amici’ Restaurant

OK, so you remember how local Italian restaurant Molti Amici suffered a fall from grace last November and was forced to close its doors just over a year after opening? The three SingleThread alumni who opened the high-fashion restaurant at 330 Healdsburg Ave. said they hoped to...

Sports

BUTTERFLY Leo Kluse in midstroke at a 2025 meet.

Healdsburg, Windsor end swim season neck and neck

Swimmers from Healdsburg and Windsor high schools, neighboring campuses with a long shared history and intertwined roots, have been nipping at each other’s heels all season. For one, they share the same pool at Healdsburg High—so they stagger their daily practices, schedule their meets around each other and rub shoulders in the locker room...
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