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“General Dynamics, you can’t hide—stop arming genocide!” chanted the pro-Palestine protestors, among other slogans calling attention to the Healdsburg offices and factory of General Dynamics, a defense industry business that has long quietly operated in town. “Healdsburg Says No to Bomb Factories!” read a large red banner; “Block the Bombs! Free Palestine!” another.

Game one of the 2025 Championship series was held on Tuesday, July 29, at Arcata Ball Park, where just two weeks earlier the Packers swept a three-game series.  The Humboldt Crabs made the most of home field advantage to defeat the Healdsburg Prune Packers 10-8 on Tuesday night. The Crabs took an early lead and although the Packers played catch-up all night, tying the game twice, they could not overcome the Crabs....

When I was younger, I used to walk to the dusty farmstand from the Prestons’ house on Dry Creek Road. We’d eat a peach on the way back, the warm, sticky juice running down our cheeks and arms marking summer’s beginning in quiet streaks of gold.

Benefits, performances, movies, work parties and public meetings in Healdsburg from now until St. Patrick's Day.

Equal parts Dr. Strangelove, The Battle of Algiers and Paper Moon, the film follows Leonardo DiCaprio as a member a revolutionary group rescuing immigrants from a detention center in Southern California....

The 24-inch-by-20-inch blue signs have popped up at a number of streetside locations around town: in front yards and shop driveways, at Rec Park and Bell’s Ambulance, even at the Big John’s intersection. They’re anti-idling signs, encouraging drivers to “Turn Your Key, Be Idle Free!”

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.

For four long, wet days in Healdsburg last week, historic rainfall totals and quickly rising Russian River and Foss Creek waters hopped their banks, flooded streets, caused road closures, led to a small mudslide on Fitch Mountain and flooded at least one home in town.

Hopes are always high at the beginning of a baseball season, and when they are rewarded by a five-game winning streak midway through league play, hopes can soar. That’s the position the Healdsburg High varsity baseball team is in this week, having won 5 in a row and looking for more...

3:03pm A man on Prentice Drive went out of his house, yelled at the neighbors and then went back inside. The RP was advised to call back if the man returned out of his house. And other Police News...