Inclusion means everyone at new playgrounds
Nearly a dozen people followed one another to the speaker’s podium at last week’s City Council meeting, many of them teens from local schools or the Girl Scouts. All of them agreed on one thing: It was time for Healdsburg to have a Magical Bridge Playground.
TEDx Returns With Inspiration
TEDx Sonoma County returns to the spacious, comfortable Jackson Theater on Saturday, March 2, for a lively afternoon of intellectual stimulation and life-changing inspiration from a dozen speakers who have something to say.
Ramble returns to Healdsburg June 6
What began with the Noah and Kelly Dorrance's passion for music and wine has grown into an annual festival that brings people together through a shared commitment to making a difference in the world.
Healdsburg Happenings, July 17-25
'Holes,' an early Shia LaBeouf movie from 2003 about a mysterious desert camp for delinquents, should make for an entertaining PG family night at the Healdsburg Plaza. With Sigourney Weaver, Jon Voight and Henry Winkler, directed by Andrew Davis ('The Fugitive'). Bring blankets, low chairs and snacks. Free, opens at 7pm, movie after 8pm.
Hungry Hounds Feast on St. Helena, 54-25
The last time the Hounds Varsity football team scored more than 50 points in a game was in 2016, another non-conference game against the Emery Spartans (62-0). Perhaps not since 1966 has there been such a performance by a Healdsburg quarterback as that by Nova Perrill last Friday...
Uncertainty is reality in The 222’s one-act play
'Heisenberg' is the 80-minute, two-person play being staged this weekend at The 222. Just like the high school chemistry teacher in 'Breaking Bad,' the play takes its reference from the theoretical physicist who postulated that a thing cannot ever truly be measured—the so-called uncertainty principle.
Montage Parking Lot Challenge Gets Results
Montage Healdsburg’s plan to remove 107 blue oak trees to build a new parking lot has been withdrawn by the developer. The plan, approved by the Planning Commission at its May 28 meeting, drew immediate protest from a group of local environmentalists, who took the formal measure of filing an appeal of the approval....
Things to do in Healdsburg, March 26 – April 1
Friday: Opening night of a two-week run of the three-actor play T-Bone N Weasel by Jon Klein, featuring Aldo Billingslea. Set in the South Carolina of decades past, it will be staged Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights at 7pm, Sunday matinees at 2pm at The 222.
Greyhounds ready rosters for fall sports
It seems like a long time since the record-setting 2025-26 sports season at Healdsburg High, and now the wait for this school year’s sports season is over: Secondary school sports get underway this week in Northern California, including in Healdsburg.
Healdsburg Happenings, Oct. 30-Nov. 7
Photographer and world traveler Andy Katz introduces a gallery of his prints at CraftWork on Wednesday Nov. 5, starting at 5:30pm. With Aperture wine and hors d’oeuvres, $60 for the event, half-price for members and friends of CraftWork, 445 Center St., craftworkhbg.com.
Arts & Entertainment
Stage face-off: Revenge vs. rivalry
Local audiences seeking a solid presentation of an American theatrical classic have two very diverse options right now. The Raven Performing Arts Theater hosts Stephen Sondheim’s massive macabre musical, "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street," while The 222 offers Sam Shepard’s more intimate fraternal drama, "True West." Both run in Healdsburg through Nov. 8.
