Amy’s Wicked Slush to Close Memorial Beach Shop
Amy Covin, who parlayed a life-long affection for Boston-style “slush”—a fruity ice confection with drizzles, sprinkles and playful attitude—into a Healdsburg dessert destination, announced over the weekend that she would be closing the flagship shop in early September.
“I think we outgrew this facility the...
Open Mic: SMART Owes Public a Review of Railroad Bridge Plans
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?
Healdsburg Happenings, Jan. 8-20
SINGING AND DANCING! Members of the Young At Heart Theatre rehearse for the upcoming performances of ‘Fosse!’ at the Raven. The education theater group will also present ‘Come Together,’ based around the music of the Beatles, this same weekend.
Local ‘rock star’ on art tour
For Alexander Valley sculptor T Barny, it’s about more than just about the stone. “It’s a way scientists or astronomers envision the universe as being infinite, but finite,” he says. “It just keeps going, keeps going, keeps going.” The concepts of art and topology animate him.
Healdsburg Braces for New Year’s Storm
Last week, the National Weather Service issued a “coastal flood warning” for the entire Sonoma County coastal area—including Healdsburg. But a quieter-than-expected rain event over the weekend averted the dire warnings that the higher-than-normal tides would bring to coastal cities.
This week, however, the weather...
Turning music into magic
“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."
Healdsburg’s Comedy Scene is No Laughing Matter
As well as doing stand-up, David Nihill is a motivational speaker, a TED-talk trainer, speaking coach and author of the best-selling book Do You Talk Funny? (the title of his show is “Shelf Help”). His comedy career is going well—he won the 43rd annual San Francisco International Comedy Competition in 2018, and he’ll be at the Raven Theater on March 23.
‘Shenkman Letter’ Prompts Overhaul of City Elections
The names on the letterhead strike terror in the hearts of city governments across the state: Malibu-based attorneys Shenkman & Hughes since 2011 have made it their mission to call out local governments in California that elect officers by “at large” voting. Now it's Healdsburg's turn, to split its area into five districts for city council elections. This could be interesting...
Gallery: No Kings III
Let’s take a look at the day as it happened in these snapshots taken along Healdsburg Avenue, midday on March 25, 2026.
Library to Close Aug. 25 for ‘Modernization’
The top-to-bottom modernization of the Healdsburg Regional Library will begin in September and last through spring 2025, the county’s library system has confirmed. But the library at 139 Piper St. will close to the public a week earlier, on Aug. 25, a week before the temporary 'mini-library' opens on Sept. 3...
Arts & Entertainment
A festival of love at local film center
While some 17 films and three “surprise screenings” are spread out over the four-day festival, that obscure majority is outweighed in impact by four classic love stories, including 'Roman Holiday,' 'The Birdcage,' 'Umbrellas of Cherbourg' and none other than Nick Cage and Cher in Moonstruck.






















