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Flashbacks

100 years ago - April 7, 1921

Ripe Rewards: It’s asparagus season

March two years ago, during beautiful bloom, an incredible Healdsburg Jazz concert was held at the home of patron Judy Voigt. In the Dry Creek Valley, her home nestles into the hills naturally and organically, with curated sculptures thoughtfully placed throughout the grounds. Artwork and beauty abound.

A post-pandemic Easter

(This editorial was originally published last April, 2020. We think a rereading offers a valuable reflection of where the past 12 months have taken us and shown us both what we have and have not learned.)

This Week in H’burg: Real tonic

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.

Flashbacks

100 years ago – March 24, 1921

This Week in H’burg: Spring has sprung, wild iris

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.

Letters to the Editor: March 24, 2021

North county fire services

From the Library

Happy March from the staff at your local library. Like all of you, we are busy remembering all of the milestones of the last year. The library's plans for safe, limited reopening in-person are progressing and we hope to provide information shortly. In the...

We need a new name

Not all of the many changes to our daily routines, work, school, forms of communication and personal frustrations can be blamed on the coronavirus pandemic. And, not all of the disruptions and changes are temporary. Not everything will be returning to “normal” after everyone has finally been vaccinated.

Commentary: Save water as if your life depends on it

“Every drop counts.”
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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.