Flashbacks

In answer to many requests for smaller packages than the Standard Food package at $10, CARE is now offering a new Budget Package, with a net weight of 10 pounds, which will sell for $5.95 for guaranteed delivery to Europe.

More than 100 children and adults gathered at a get-together meeting Thursday noon at the Mill Creek school house. The following schools were represented: Junction, Felta, Pine Ridge and Mill Creek. A picnic lunch was enjoyed and this was followed by a program in which every school took part. This and more historical news from the Healdsburg Museum...

One of the girls who was a principal in the gangster assault case in San Francisco just five years ago has written a letter which has been turned over to the state board of prison directors, in which she admits that she falsely testified in a 1920 assault trial that led to lynching of three men...

The docents of the Healdsburg Museum dig into back issues of The Healdsburg Tribune to find stories from 50, 75 and 100 years ago...

The second annual Future Farmers Country Fair, held Friday and Saturday, May 18 and 19, 1951, at the Legion Grounds, in the opinion of all who participated was a rousing success. Starting with the noon parade Friday there was “something doing every minute.”

In 1901, the Ladies’ Improvement Club of the City of Healdsburg went to "great expense and labor to improve said club," while in 1951 the local Civil Defense Council announced a practice alert...

News from 1925: "There will be no more games at Recreation Park. The Prune Packers, Healdsburg’s famous team which has won statewide recognition in bush baseball circles, has been disbanded and will play no more games this season."

With reactions akin to those of Mahomet watching the mountain come to him, the Healdsburg Fire Department tumbled out on Center street to quench a furiously blazing lumber truck that, spouting flame and smoke, rolled up to the firehouse for a spot of fire suppression Monday afternoon. 

100 years ago – October 9, 1924 DAM COMING DOWN AS RAIN ARRIVES With the welcome opening of the rainy season, Lake Sotoyome is, figuratively speaking, to be folded up and put away until next summer. The new dam, construction of which was completed late in...