Country Roads: Market memories
Happy birthday, Healdsburg Farmers’ Market. Though 40 years old today, it required a year or two of planning and work from a set of folks, some of whom are still selling produce.
Cultivating Community: Windsor Garden Club
Want to make your yard a haven for bees and butterflies? Two tips: don’t use pesticides containing neonicotinoids, and be careful where you buy your plants.
Commentary: Understanding when schools can reopen for in-person learning
As schools in many neighboring counties gradually reopen and offer a model of instruction where small cohorts of students can return to the classroom, Sonoma County families may understandably wonder why that’s not yet the case here.
Community Corner
Ongoing through March 9 – Healdsburg Center for the Arts presents ‘Young Artists 2014’, a celebration of Art programs in the Healdsburg Area Elementary Schools. 130 Plaza St., open daily 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Cannabis Country: Insurance agent for the marijuana industry
It’s good to see former students doing well, especially when they do well in innovative ways. That’s true for Daniel Garcia, who took my classes at Sonoma State University (SSU).
Friendship not fear: Standing up against hate
An alarming wave of Islamophobia is sweeping our nation. It has taken the form of hate crimes, profiling and verbal attacks. Increasingly inflammatory political rhetoric has included calls for internment camps and halting the resettlement of Muslim refugees who are fleeing war and terror.
Arts & Entertainment
$20k split 3 ways in Arts for All grants
The recent reveal of Jake Messing’s River Dreams mural at Russian Riverkeeper was one of three projects from the city’s Arts & Culture Commission...
















