This Week in H’burg: Ice cream
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.
Off the Top of My Head Football’s no fun after adults dug in
I am not watching the Super Bowl. It has become a corporate spectacle. Commercials take top billing and the show has become bigger than the game.
Dragging tables is a good way to get scolded
A new brochure has been published for the Healdsburg Farmers Market and in a short paragraph titled “The Market Story,” it reads that the market was “established in 1978 by two families, the Kiffs and the Bernier.”
Homeless need public help
EDITOR: This past Friday morning, I joined others in conducting the annual Sonoma County Homeless Point-In-Time Census and Survey. What I observed made me feel ashamed of our community’s apparent indifference to what is happening to our shelterless residents.
Are coastal changes coming?
A lot is happening along Sonoma County’s 35 miles of Pacific Ocean coastline these days. And this time we’re not talking about the migrating gray whales or the disappointing closure of the dungeness crab season. We’re talking about actions and proposals by the dominant coastal species — humans.
Faith column: Together in Christ Windsor is a unifying force for good
A pastor’s role is to shepherd his or her flock, but who shepherds the shepherds?
Arts & Entertainment
Multicultural Center takes shape at Abel de Luna
Bursts of color explode from every corner and every angle of the newly repainted Abel de Luna Community Center on the north side of town. Fuchsia, sunflower, marigold, plum and chrysanthemum abut and juxtapose with one another on the many outside walls and columns, as two muralists work on their own visions of Healdsburg.














