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2024 Lineup for Healdsburg ‘Tuesdays in the Plaza’

May 18, 2024

The lineup was just announced for Tuesdays in the Plaza, a warm-weather public ceremony for almost four decades now. And just like for the FFA parade, you'd better get your chairs out there early. Christian Kallen, news editor of the Healdsburg Tribune, described the...

Pepper’s Diner, the New Adel’s, Set to Open June 3

June 1, 2024

Update on the Pepper's restaurant about to open next to the Best Western Dry Creek Inn — aka, the second coming of Adel's diner. Restaurant manager Ali Haidar was rushing around all week in an effort to open today, but now he says he...

In Memoriam: Charlotte ‘Shally’ Schultz

January 17, 2024

Healdsburg retiree Charlotte Schultz, who went by Shally, has passed away at age 81. After working for decades as a public-school teacher in SoCal, she and her husband Wally moved to Healdsburg in 2006, according to her obituary. Shally was a big volunteer, reading...

Healdsburg Rocked by Year’s First Big Rainstorm

February 6, 2025

From last Saturday morning through Tuesday night, the most damaging storm of the 2024-25 rainy season so far ravaged Healdsburg and the rest of the North Bay for four days straight. (And that’s saying a lot, after the other historic four-dayer we weathered in November.) This time around,...

St. Patrick’s in Healdsburg: What to Know

March 16, 2024

As I'm sure you've heard, tomorrow is a big day in Healdsburg. It's a big day most places — but especially here. Expect drunken, Irish-inspired revelry all across the downtown area from before the sun rises to after it sets. It all starts with the...

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

March 11, 2025

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...

Arista Winery Sells Healdsburg Tasting Room

March 11, 2025

The recent trend of local wineries reducing costs by selling off their prime Healdsburg properties — including Thumbprint, Ketcham, Truett Hurst and Comstock, off the top of my head — continues this winter with the McWilliams family’s Arista Winery and tasting room on Westside Road. (Update, March 12: To clarify,...

Agave Restaurant Closed For Holidays

January 2, 2024

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)

Healdsburg High Looking for New Principal

March 16, 2024

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...

City of Healdsburg Is Good at Building Housing, State Says

February 5, 2024

In the eyes of our state governor, Healdsburg city leaders have been doing a great job planning and approving the construction of more housing here in town. Gov. Newson blessed our city with his official "Prohousing" designation last week, along with Petaluma and Eureka...

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