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There is a lot going on at City Hall. In addition to all the work that has revolved around increasing housing stock affordable to working families, the city is also in the midst of our annual budget process and the much anticipated Healdsburg Avenue Improvement project slated to begin this summer.

An author and birthday

Now through May – Healdsburg Senior Writing Project, Senior

Chris Love

It’s Christmastime in California. You can tell by all the potted poinsettias popping up around grocery store doors. The holiday’s standard bloomer is actually a tropical plant that originated in Mexico and Guatemala. It was intro­duced to the United States by diplomat Joel Roberts Poinsett, appointed in 1825 as the first U.S. Envoy to Mexico. In addition to being a diplomat, Poinsett was also a physician and an

I remember when I first became a mother. The year was 2002 and it was truly life changing. Then it happened again in 2003, and again in 2007, and for the last time, in 2015. I am the proud parent of four wonderful children, two of them are teenagers. I often remember my parents saying throughout the years, “Just wait Elizabeth, just wait until they are teenagers.” Well, incredibly, that time has come. I find myself now in a very exciting, very scary, very important time with my two older children. There will be no other time in their lives or mine, when they will experience such rapid growth and maturity.