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Cannabis Country Wine and Weed Forever?

What’s in a word or a phrase? Sometimes words reflect huge worlds. The annual northern California ā€œWine and Weed Symposiumā€ isn’t scheduled until Aug. 8, 2019, but George Christie, the producer of the event, is already publicizing it. This year it will take place, as usual, at the Hyatt Regency in Santa Rosa, with panels, speakers, food, information and networking galore.

From the Library: Improvements

Our excitement about what we will be able to do to improve the library and our services for our community continues to grow as we sort out what will happen over the next several months before the Measure Y funding is in place. Amidst the budgeting and scheduling considerations, we’re still providing programs. What follows are some of the interesting events coming up.

December Library News & Events

By Jon Haupt Throughout the month of December, the Healdsburg Regional Library will provide a series of events to help brighten your days. Our most anticipated event this month, a Healdsburg Library Posada, will take place on Saturday, Dec. 16, from 11am to 2pm. This...

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Share the bounty

It’s always a challenge to talk about the bounty and beauty of our Sonoma County without bouncing between clichĆ©s and hyperbole. Amidst all our affluence and accoutrements, it’s also very easy to forget that not everyone gets to share in all that plentifulness and prettiness.

Farm + Market: Rhythms of the harvest

Pre-dawn harvest in Healdsburg's Alexander Valley
"This is my 20th year photographing harvest—since 2005—and I still love this time," writes Liza Gershman. "I’ve spent nights with vineyard crews lit only by headlamps and moonlight, capturing the exact moment the fruit leaves the vine. My favorite moment is when the deepest darkness turns into light and the sky opens up. I rarely see sunrise outside of harvest. There’s a reverence to it. A rhythm. A knowing..."

Farmers’ Market Musings -Autumn FYI

Are you feeling a little dizzy with the recent deluge of information? Are you up to your ears with mailers, and debates, and opinions, and editorials? Are you nearly facing analysis paralysis? Well so am I. And so, in an effort to simplify things just a little, let me reduce some essential information to bullet points.

Flashbacks: 1975 Wine Fest gets out of control

Celebrants in Healdsburg history
News from 1975: The event was marred by several fights late in the afternoon. As the afternoon wore on a number of young children were permitted by their parents to splash and play in the Plaza fountain. The children frequently squirted water on Fest guests and were difficult to control. Healdsburg Police arrested two men on charges of resisting arrest and disturbing the peace, after officer Don McNair was reportedly jumped by them.

Under the Christmas sky

Long, long ago in 1897 a little girl named Virginia wrote to her local newspaper asking if Santa Claus was real. The editor replied:ā€ˆā€œ(you) have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical ageā€ as he defended the spirit of love, generosity and childlike faith. ā€œHow dreary would the world be if there were no Santa Claus,ā€ā€ˆhe wrote.

Flashbacks from Healdsburg

Curated news from the 'Healdsburg Tribune' of years gone by, compiled by the Healdsburg Museum and Historical Society. This week: The Geysers Stage, the National Guard comes to town and summer tubing on the Russian River.
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Arts & Entertainment

‘Angels’ lands at Raven Performing Arts

:Every Sunday matinee we do a post-show discussion with the audience, so they get a chance to make comments and ask questions of the actors. We saw there were a lot of people who were quite moved and quite touched by the play. So the opening weekend could not have gone better, as far as I’m concerned," said director Steven David Martin.