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The 2025-26 athletics season gets underway this week as the season’s first girls volleyball game is played on Thursday afternoon in Cloverdale. It’s followed by a weekend tournament at Vintage High School in Napa, then three more weeks of non-league play and tournaments before...

The NBL Redwood championship tourney delivered picture-perfect fall conditions—mid-70s temperatures, bluebird skies, dry fairways and firm greens. The setting helped the Healdsburg girls golf team finish the regular season with a flawless 10–0 record in league play.

As a recording artist, if a person hangs around long enough, they get to look back at their body of work. And if they’re really lucky they not only get to revisit their canon, they even get a shot at reinterpreting and reimagining these earlier fruits of their labor. That’s what Alejandro Escovedo has done with his latest album, Echo Dancing. It finds him using the past to shape the future.

In a momentous decision that almost wasn’t reached at all, the Healdsburg City Council voted 4-0 to name the Saggio Hills park after Native artisan, historian, linguist and “culture bearer” Laura Fish Somersal - and to rename the Healdsburg Community Center after the first Hispanic mayor, Abel De Luna.

On Sept. 1, the workers’ trucks finally started rolling into the parking lot at the former L&M Motel at 70 Healdsburg Ave., as crews started replacing walls, installing appliances and converting what were once the most affordable motel rooms in town into something else—a...

Ever since the American Institute of Architects (AIA) came to Healdsburg, the town has turned increasingly self-reflective, attentive to its brand in a way that goes beyond just tourism. It’s now not just a wine destination but a design destination, where city planners, architects, sustainability...

Words like “visionary,” “electrifying,” “exhilarating,” “transcendent” and “breathtaking” get thrown around with abandon (by myself included) to describe much lesser films than Ryan Coogler’s Sinners. So I will try not to be overly precious in relating to you how special this movie is.

At the first meeting of the Healdsburg City Council that followed the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas on Israel, several residents asked that the city use its bridge-illumination policy to turn the renovated bridge over the Russian River blue and white, the colors of...

On top of last-minute permitting issues, it has been a wildly hectic week at Pepper’s, according to Haidar—full of scheduling staff shifts, ordering food and supplies, and getting everything ready for opening day - which could come as early as May 31.

“Scholarship Night is truly a testament to the generosity of the community of Healdsburg and how much our town cares about our young people,” said Shelley Anderson, the school’s scholarship coordinator. “Because of our robust and bountiful scholarship program and donors, many of our HHS graduates are able to get their four-year degrees with minimal or no debt.”