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Alexander Malofeev was just 13 when he came to prominence by winning his first major international competition, the celebrated International Tchaikovsky Competition for Young Musicians, in 2015. Now 21 and living in Berlin, the young Moscow-born pianist continues to capture the musical world’s attention,...

In 2023, Healdsburg experienced a variety of events and news, including SMART's getting closer, the move of Healdsburg Lumber, the return of Climate Fest, the success of the Prune Packers, and the Healdsburg Museum's "We Are Not Strangers Here: African American Histories in Rural California" exhibit.

At Alexander Valley School on Tuesday morning, Destiny Muhammad filled the new multipurpose room with the ethereal sounds of her harp as over 100 K-5 students listened quietly to an instrument it’s probably safe to say most of them had not heard before: They...

When I was younger, I used to walk to the dusty farmstand from the Prestons’ house on Dry Creek Road. We’d eat a peach on the way back, the warm, sticky juice running down our cheeks and arms marking summer’s beginning in quiet streaks of gold.

It was Assistant City Manager Andrew Sturmfels' last meeting in Healdsburg before he begins work for Sonoma County, but the same old City Council was on the dais to double-down on their controversial decision to set a 5-district limit for Healdsburg's new government....

Another one-of-a-kind Healdsburg resident passed away earlier this month from cancer at age 77, according to the Press Democrat: local textile artist and art teacher Sylvia Seventy. The fascinating, multimedia, Pomo-inspired “vessels” she made (pictured above and below) became quite well-known in certain circles of...

Senior-home staffers threw a joint birthday party for the Big Four last Friday afternoon, on the final day of February. They branded it a “centenarian celebration.” The first two birthday girls wheeled into the snug party lounge were Healdsburg natives Marge Lampson and Marge Barnard, who remember attending public school together in Healdsburg.

Given all the angst and opinion voiced in previous public hearings (and social media) about the city’s transition to District Elections, Monday nights’ meeting took place in a desert. Fewer than half a dozen members of the public were in the room when the hearing, fourth in a series of five, got underway at the posted “time certain” 6:45pm on March 17. But the meeting set forth the future of Healdsburg district elections for years to come.

Friends and family of firefighters, passersby and the curious converged on the new Healdsburg Fire Department Station No. 2 on Saturday, to take a first look at the now-completed building.

Perhaps the city’s crown jewel event is the Healdsburg Future Farmers Country Fair and the accompanying Twilight Parade. It’s all happening this week for the 76th time. And it's theme even rhymes: Keeping Ag Alive in 2025.