Country Roads: The missing editor, the unfortunate frog and the mysterious loofah
Dear readers: I am really having trouble writing this column today because I have just learned that my editor, Ray Holley, will be employed by a new entity at the close of this month.
There’s Snow on Them Thar Hills
Epic conditions in Sonoma County this past week. Snow warnings for one to two feet possible at elevations above 1,500 feet. Healdsburg’s elevation is 100 feet, Cloverdale’s about 350 and Hopland’s 500.
Snow the prior week fell to about the 300 foot elevation, and four...
From the Library
With every month comes a multitude of activities in your public library, along with occasional challenges. Such was the case in March with the news that our event featuring author/illustrator Todd Parr would need to be rescheduled. Todd had unexpected family business to attend...
Letter: Suggestions for SR sewage disposal
Editor: The proposed sewage disposal project appears to be a
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.


















