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February 26, 2026

NCS title within reach for revived Lady Hounds

The 2025-26 Healdsburg High girls basketball team and coaches.
The Healdsburg girls basketball team is on the verge of a benchmark of success that has eluded them for decades. Depending on the results of the Tuesday night game against Division 5 North Coast Section championship series, the Hounds could end up in the upcoming final match.

The future comes to Cloverdale

Zuegel and Yarne of the Esmeralda Land Company
Devon Zuegel, founder and president of Esmeralda Land Company, and Michael Yarne, its director of development, stood before an often skeptical audience of close to 300 at the Cloverdale Veterans Memorial Building on Feb. 5 to explain, and defend once again, their ambitious plans for a “Chautauqua of the West” on former logging, Masonite and gravel mining property in Cloverdale.

Hall of Fame welcomes 7 new Greyhounds

Helen Ann Haun (Smith) and Neil Cronin
On Sunday, Feb. 22, Healdsburg High’s Athletic Hall of Fame will hold an “induction” celebration to welcome 7 new members to the prestigious list, founded in 1992...

‘Creative futures’ maps local arts landscape

Group discuss art beneath painting
Organized by the City’s Arts and Culture Commission in partnership with Healdsburg Unified School District, and hosted by The 222, the 'Inspiring Creative Futures" forum reflected a belief that creativity is not an “extra,” but an essential part of a thriving community.

Racial debate on The 222 stage

Stage actors at the 222
Fair warning that this is the sort of play to which audience members will want to bring tissues. It is not a fluffy play by any means, forcing its audience to listen carefully and think deeply about difficult topics.

Healdsburg Happenings, Feb. 19-Feb. 27

Cast selfie of 'Steel Magnolias' at the Raven
Daily listing of events in and around Healdsburg, from the stage to the library.

Turning music into magic

Christine Webster plays the blues
“This revolution is different—it is a disruption of creativity," said Nolan Gasser. "So now you can actually create a poem, or an image created or a video created or a piece of music created by artificial intelligence, just by a prompt."

Ice escapades with Hans Brinker wannabe

Ice skating boots
Hans Brinker was a hero. I dreamed of being Hans. I envied Hans’ skating long distances on frozen canals. I thrilled to my mother’s stories of the Bronx River freezing when people could skate from one town to the next. Once, in seventh grade...

Healdsburg grapples with the best

wrestlers start match
Under coach Scott Weidemier, the wrestlers of Healdsburg High—in all classes, both boys and girls—continue to “punch above their weight” in the competitive 11-team North Bay League.

Healdsburg Happenings, Feb. 12 – 20

There's more than just wining and dining in Healdsburg - there's also theater, with new shows opening on two stages this weekend...
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Arts & Entertainment

Cast of 'A Good Deal'

Romance about genetic disease is Ron Nash’s latest

The arts did not beckon when Ron Nash was a young man—far from it. “I was in trouble mentally in high school. I was angry, angry, angry,” he said. He even got kicked out of school, but his athletic ability—he was a hurdlers champion in track—earned him a scholarship to college.
Stage actors at the 222

Racial debate on The 222 stage

Christine Webster plays the blues

Turning music into magic