Forays into the Fourth District: County infrastructure, vegetation management projects coming to Fitch Mountain
Sonoma County Department of Transportation and Public Works (TPW) is working on several infrastructure projects for the unincorporated area of Fitch Mountain during the ongoing COVID-19 shelter-in-place order.
Commentary: To every thing there is a season
This is not the time to break down, this is a time to build up, as wise man King Solomon observed 3,000 years ago. Although it seems hard to imagine what Healdsburg will be like after the current crisis fades away, it seems prudent to assume that it will take a long time to revive our town’s success story of the past 10 years.
Distance learning for the littlest learners
Mattie Washburn has been extremely busy training staff on Google Classroom, getting the devices in the hands of our students, making phone calls to assist families with logging on and implementing Google Classroom and Zoom meetings successfully for the past few weeks. Â
Country Roads: Changes in the kitchen, and on the farm
There is still grocery shopping. Some things remain oddly the same, as though there is no world pandemic. This strange situation covers the world as we thought we knew it, challenging our every perception of what should be, yet isn’t.
Off the Top of My Head: It is okay to do nothing
I am stressed. I still have my job and for ten years I have been working from home. I cannot imagine how much more stressful this current situation would be if I had no income or were new to working from home. I have Medicare. It must be very stressful for those whose healthcare was tied to a job they no longer have. I am grateful. I have so much more than many. Yet, I am still stressed.
Letters to the Editor: May 7
Regarding the Healdsburg Future Farmers Country Fair and Twilight Parade
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.
