Someday We’ll Laugh About This . . . Right? Not quite at the Kleenex stage…yet.
Genetics are pretty cool. I was given the heritage kit from 23 and Me over the summer, and it confirmed what I had pretty much known all along: I am extremely Northern European. My “fish belly white” skin (as described by my little brother in that loving way only little brothers can achieve) gave that away years ago.
Flashbacks from Healdsburg
100 years ago: Aug. 30, 1923Heat Wave Ends as Storm Breaks
A break of almost 20 degrees in the temperature marked the transition of the weather from hot wave to storm conditions. After several days of excessive warmth, with marks of 100 degrees recorded on...
Letters: May, 2026
Tribune readers have advice and opinions, and sometimes they share them in our Letters column, published irregularly.
The blame game
As most of us continue to deal with our anger and anxiety over being left in the dark — both figuratively and literally — by PG&E’s massive public safety power shutoff (PSPS), we need to take a breather and remind ourselves this “new normal”...
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.
