Celebrate the orange reason for the season
The month of pumpkins. Those globes of orange and gold fill the farms around us now, and provide endless goodies for consumption or decoration. From pies to pumpkin spiced drinks, tiny ones used as table décor to huge ones filling the back of a pickup, the pumpkin is celebrated throughout the country as a squash everyone can love.
Flashbacks Healdsburg
100 Years Ago: Sept. 20, 1923
Grape Shipments Running High as Cars Grow Short
The surplus of refrigerator cars has been exhausted and the Healdsburg district is now on a hand to mouth basis in grape shipping, according to W. E. Hicks, Northwestern Pacific station agent.
There...
A Sunday Trail Hike Goes Very Squirrely
By Solito
Solito here. You may know me from around town and prior literary contributions to the Tribune. I had to write up this note of thanks to our community for, well, saving my life perhaps.
My morning routine: I sniff, scratch my back on the...
Water conservation, car washes and water waste
Summer is upon us. We have completed our spring cleanup around the yard, made sure no standing water is present on our properties attracting mosquitos and set up our outdoor furniture. Summer also marks an important time of the year for water conservation. By using water wisely in the summer, it helps preserve our healthy watershed for the remainder of the year. Even though we received a lot of rainfall this winter, it is important to minimize water waste throughout our community.
This Week in H’burg: The winter solstice, shortest day of the year
This Week in H’burg is a weekly column featuring photos and fun facts from local photographer Pierre Ratté. Each week we’ll feature a new photo from Ratté along with a fact about the subject matter of the photo.
Harvest: ‘For me, Christmas lives inside a cake’
My family’s tradition is the bûche de Noël. A Christmas log. It arrives on an antique silver platter, dusted lightly with powdered sugar for snow, as if it has just been lifted from the forest floor.
Arts & Entertainment
Things to Do in Healdsburg, Aug. 27 – Sept. 4
The Solano County-based band Hey Jude plays the songs of the Beatles and other ’60s hitmakers for the finale on Thursday at Windsor’s Summer Nights on the Green. Farmers’ market starts at 5pm, music plays from 6-8pm. This is the last week for community music in most Northern Sonoma County towns.

















