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The City of Healdsburg announced the settlement of legal action brought by Jon Eisenberg, a retired attorney living in Healdsburg, against the City for violations of the Brown Act. At issue was a “pattern of misbehavior that is deeply embedded in the culture of Healdsburg’s city government,” in the terms of Eisenberg’s January 2025 complaint.

Healdsburg Police officers responded to a report of an assault at Byron Gibbs Park at 5:27pm on Sunday, Aug. 3. When they arrived on the scene, on Prentice Drive near Sunnyvale Drive, they found a woman in her 70s bleeding profusely from her head. She related that she and her husband, from the East Bay region, had been visiting the area and went to Gibbs Park to use the public restroom...

The 26th annual Healdsburg Jazz Festival continues its 9-day immersion in music, with nightly concerts at Bacchus Courtyard Thursday through Sunday and other shows at the Elephant, Farmers’ Market, St Paul’s Church and Sunday afternoon, 2pm, at the Raven...

Last Monday night marked the conclusion of what City Manager Jeff Kay called “a long and really involved journey” in Healdsburg’s civic history, as the City Council voted to approve a new map for selecting council members by district voting, beginning in 2026.

A dramatic sunset closing out 2025 seems appropriate for a year full of world-changing events. That was the year that was, according to Pierre Ratte.

Remember those cartoons during the Covid Era where people from the expiring year would look in terror around the corner at the arriving year, saying, “What now?” It’s sort of like that all over again, as so much has changed since January it doesn’t seem possible that there’s more to come.

My family’s tradition is the bûche de Noël. A Christmas log. It arrives on an antique silver platter, dusted lightly with powdered sugar for snow, as if it has just been lifted from the forest floor.

M.F.K. Fisher, one of the premier wine writers of the past 100 years, lived the last 20 years of her life in Sonoma County, near Glen Ellen. Everyone who was anyone in cuisine— Jacques Pepin, James Beard, Alice Waters, Julia Child—made the pilgrimage to...

On Wednesdays for the past few weeks, a band of lifesavers has walked the streets of Healdsburg, popping into shops and talking to owners and store managers about Narcan. Two retired physicians, David Anderson and Walter Maack, join Jeff McGee, the police department’s Social Services team member, and sometimes other members of the Harm Reduction Coalition.

As “Dry January” unrolls, it’s time to examine the physical side of fitness. With three larger gyms and a half-dozen smaller studios, the options for finding an appropriate level of fitness maintenance is up to you. Their offerings are multiple: mat-based barre, Pilates, cycling classes, yoga, strength training, HIIT, cardio dance, even sound baths and mitt boxing.