Flashbacks: A look back at local history
The following snippets of history are drawn from the pages of the Healdsburg Tribune, the Healdsburg Enterprise and the Sotoyome Scimitar, and are prepared by the volunteers at the Healdsburg Museum & Historical Society. Admission is always free at the museum, open Wednesday through Sunday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Commentary: Refuse, reduce, reuse, repair, recycle and rot
America is a disposable nation. Each person, on average, produces more than 1,600 pounds of trash each year.
Stone Soup Wednesdays for seniors brings community together
The folk tale about a hungry traveler coming to town asking for something to eat, but finding no one willing to offer hospitality, has been told for centuries throughout Europe, Russia, China and even in Native American culture. While no one knows for sure if this tale is true, its enduring message about sharing a meal with others is still relevant today.
Sunshine and you
This is Sunshine Week, the annual tribute to America’s free press, coordinated by the American Society of News Editors and the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press. It coincides with the birthday (March 16) of our fourth president James Madison, the author of much of our U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights.
Arts & Entertainment
Return to the Russian River
When Jake Messing stood in front of the mural he had just completed for Russian Riverkeeper on the north side of the nonprofit’s headquarters at 139 Healdsburg Ave., he had finished more than another mural. He had made a return to the source from the sea himself, like the salmon he portrayed.
