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.
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.
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


















