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Seemingly under the radar, while basketball playoffs stretched the late season and heavy rains kept students and parents indoors, spring sports nonetheless got underway at area high schools this past month.

At the Healdsburg Certified Farmers’ Market, strawberries are reaching their peak sweetness, their scent lingering in the air before they are even visible in the stalls. Spring onions and green garlic are tender, fava beans are shelled by the pound and sugar snap peas—the kind of bright green that seems to be omnipresent in my life lately—offer that crisp, wet-mouth crunch that makes them an irresistible snack...

Heads up: Healdsburg will likely look and feel a lot different for the whole month of June. More than usual, we may hear crypto words like “blockchain” and “Ethereum” being thrown around in the aisles of Big John’s. We may see large clumps of out-of-towners...

Ongoing Edge Esmeralda Starting Saturday, May 30, and running through June 27, the annual gathering “for people building a brighter future” takes place at various locations in Healdsburg. It will involve at least 500 people in workshops, breakout groups and community experiments taking place throughout the...

Healdsburg Fire Marshal-Division Chief Linda Collister, a champion of fire prevention and preparedness, a well-respected figure in the community and a mainstay of the Healdsburg Fire Department, is set to retire this May after working with the department for 15 years. “You have to have...

The Healdsburg High School varsity football team is ready to turn the page. The team, which hasn’t won a league game since 2017, is preparing for the 2023 season with dogged determination under new head coach Randy Parmeter. Long associated with the program at El...

It’s called the Howl-o-Ween Pet Parade (get it?) and both pets and their people look forward to this annual free event designed to generate good times and donations to the Humane Society’s Pet Food Pantry. Plus more goings-on this weekend and next week...

Residents and others are encouraged to call Healdsburg Police Dispatch as needed at 707.431.3377, operational 24/7. Here are this week's dispatch entries...

Since 1989’s Sex, Lies and Videotape, Steven Soderbergh has not only helped revolutionize independent film in the United States, but has consistently found ways to move cinema into blazingly original spaces of storytelling and technical innovation while remaining so prolific that it remains to be seen if he ever actually sleeps.

Bird Global, the electric scooter and bike company that provides transportation vehicles by the hour in Healdsburg, Windsor and more than 300 other cities, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on December 20th, but the company is still providing its services in Healdsburg and other communities.