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Healdsburg
December 20, 2025

Clocking in 2017

Another year, with 12 months and 8,760 hours, has come and gone. Was it too fast, too slow or something in between?

Silver Linings

iPad-Just the Basics • Wednesday 10/16 and 10/23 • 10 to 11:30 a.m. • $45R/$50NR

Newsroom Notebook: Holiday cheer—and tradition—comes in many forms

It’s the slowest and fastest of times here at the newspaper.

Main Street: To market, to market

The Healdsburg Farmers’ Market is 40 years old this year. It’s been in a bunch of different locations, from an empty lot near the old train station, to its current Saturday location in the parking lot at North and Vine.

Billions, not millions

For the most part, voters of Sonoma County have given strong endorsements to their local state senators Mike McGuire and Bill Dodd and assembly members Jim Wood and Marc Levine. These men just cast big votes to support affordable housing, parks and water projects, climate and environmental protection and for a sanctuary state declaration to limit federal raids on innocent undocumented residents.

Market Refresher: Market Opening Day is here

Opening on April 7

Community Corner

Healdsburg Animal Shelter is looking for volunteers to work during the Sunset Magazine Breezehouse tours. Home tours are Fridays-Sundays starting August 3 and ending September 9. Volunteer shifts are 4 hours long (9:30 – 1:30 and 1:30 – 5:30) and HAS will receive a donation for staffing the project with volunteers. Call Jamie at 431-3386 X19 to volunteer for this fun project.

Cityscape: Preparing for the rainy season

Happy Holidays. We hope you are enjoying this holiday season. With it comes the wet weather. 

Silver Linings

Homemade Craft Fair & Bake Sale, Saturday, Feb. 1, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Decoding Teenagers

Letting go
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Arts & Entertainment

Christmas music like it used to be, with swing

Now widely known as “The Harlem Nutcracker,” Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn wrote it for Columbia Records, along with film scores and other work. It was met with a sensational reception
Santa Claus and kids

Holiday Happenings: Dec. 18-27