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September 1, 2025

Healdsburg Bookshop Owner Passes Away — But Levin & Company Lives On

The harrowing medical journey of Aaron Rosewater, beloved co-owner of the Levin & Company bookstore on the Healdsburg plaza, came to a heartbreaking end last week. Aaron died in the hospital Friday, according to loved ones. His wife Gwen, who shared updates throughout the ordeal...

Healdsburg High Looking for New Principal

Healdsburg High School is replacing its principal, Francisco Manriquez, after just one year in the role. I have zero information about why Principal Manriquez is leaving. All I know is that the Healdsburg Unified School District quietly posted a job recruitment flier for his position...

Healdsburg Cops Say Violent Tire-Slashing Suspect on the Loose

By now you've probably heard about the alleged parking-lot stabbing and tire-slashing spree at the Healdsburg Community Center that led to a three-hour police pursuit through town a couple of weeks ago, on the night of Tuesday, April 30. Local police have since named...

In Memoriam: Arline Smith

Longtime Healdsburg resident Arline Hotle Smith passed away last month at age 89. She and her husband of 62 years, Bill, "moved to Healdsburg with their three children in 1976," according to her obituary. They were known to "travel extensively on their boat, circling...

Healdsburg Ballot May Ask for More Market-Rate Housing

KRCB public radio ran an interesting piece last week on the lack of market-rate housing options in Healdsburg right now, and how "local rules passed over two decades ago... to protect Healdsburg from overdevelopment" seem to be making our housing problems worse. So city...

$2M Healdsburg Property With Only Pool Goes Viral

A funny thing happened recently where a $2 million rural Healdsburg property with only a pool went semi-viral online. It all started when an X account called "Zillow Gone Wild" tweeted out a link to the 5-acre property on Chalk Hill Road, writing: "Everyone...

Case Update: Deadly Healdsburg Hotel Fight

The Press Democrat has an update on the shocking death in town last summer of Abel Garza, a 41-year-old father of three from Santa Rosa who police say attacked a group of hotel staffers in the pool area at Hotel Healdsburg earlier that day. One of the staffers,...

In Memoriam: Karen Bosworth

Healdsburg native Karen Bosworth — a local healthcare worker, education leader, business owner, softball player, rancher and mom — passed away last month at her home in Geyserville. She was in her mid 80s. According to her obituary, Karen was working as a medical...

Healdsburg’s Girls Basketball Team Wins League Championship (Again)

Everyone was pretty sure this would happen, but now it's a done deal: Healdsburg High School's consistently excellent girls basketball team won the league championship game against Rancho Cotate on Saturday night. This means they took the No. 1 spot out of seven teams...

Molti Amici, Shuttered Healdsburg Restaurant, Can Finally Rest in Peace

OK, so you remember how Molti Amici on Healdsburg Avenue suffered a fall from grace last November and was forced to close its doors just over a year after it opened in the old Campo Fina space, with dreams of becoming Healdsburg’s next casual Italian community hub? And...

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Taylor Tappin and football team

Another new coach to lead Healdsburg team

It’s getting to be an old story: This is the third straight year a new coach will take control of the team, the sixth time in eight years. That must be counted as a factor for the disappointing record the Greyhounds have run up since their last winning season, 2013. Perhaps, say the faithful again, this year will be different...
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