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This is the first season for girls flag football at Healdsburg high school. The turnout for the team has been really impressive to see; we had about 25 girls try out and we have a team with lots of amazing athletes with different skill...

With the closures and limitations of the pandemic fading into memory, restaurant dining has regained its position as one of Sonoma County’s most popular, close-to-home recreations.

Now widely known as The Harlem Nutcracker, it was one of several suites Ellington and Strayhorn wrote for Columbia, as well as film scores and other work. “One of the things that he and Columbia Records talked about was him and Billy Strayhorn doing a sort of Nutcracker Suite” just in time for the Christmas 1960 record-selling season, Marcus Shelby said.

The Healdsburg High School athletics program is midway through its first normal autumn in several years. A total of 149 students are participating in the season’s sports, from a football team of 43 to a girls’ golf squad of five to a cheer team...

While the role of the mayor in Healdsburg is largely ceremonial—to chair meetings, issue proclamations and be the city’s public face—it is not entirely so. With the imminent elimination of the at-large election of City Council members to accord with the 2002 California Voting Rights Act, the role of the mayor could become much more important...

7:39am The Reporting Party (RP) at Safeway on Vine Street said a hit-and-run occurred in the parking lot. The suspect was not at the scene, but a bystander had information about the incident. A report was taken. And more news from Healdsburg Police Dispatch...

After a relatively quiet summer, the race for three seats on the Healdsburg City Council is picking up speed. Three candidate forums are scheduled for the next week, including a League of Women Voters online event on Wednesday night, and the second on the following Tuesday, a live-only event presented by the Healdsburg Chamber of Commerce...

It’s the 28th year of the Healdsburg Jazz Festival, a signature cultural event in Healdsburg with its variety of musical events starting June 12 and continuing until June 21. Selected events listed here, for the full schedule see our online Calendar.

Healdsburg’s Russian River Railroad Bridge is the sole remaining example of a steel Subdivided Warren Truss bridge on the former line of the Northwestern Pacific Railroad. Built in 1901, the bridge has three spans supported by four concrete piers, a steel deck and superstructure on both sides of a single track. What does SMART plan to do with it?

In the early morning hours of May 14, a hit-and-run accident occurred on Hudson Street at Front Street. The RP requested police check the area. Officers arrived on scene and located the RP’s vehicle that was legally parked with damage to the body. Officers located a trail of oil leading to a suspect vehicle possibly involved in the accident. The vehicle was towed for evidence and a report was taken