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For the student-athletes of the Healdsburg Track & Field team, the Santa Rosa Field Event Jamboree, March 15, and the Dublin Distance Fiesta, March 21-22, bookend the start and end of spring break. “These meets highlight the two extremes of track and field,” said head coach Kate Guthrie.

Stella Heath, a Healdsburg-area vocalist who frequently performs in local venues, takes to the big stage at LBC on Saturday to channel Lady Day with the Billie Holiday Project, at 8pm. Her vocal skills will be backed by a 10-piece band of some of the Bay Area’s finest swing musicians, and professional swing dancers to show how it’s done.

Early in the morning of March 12, three Healdsburg Police officers went to Los Gatos to arrest the suspect Damian Martines-Osorio, who was now living under another alias. With the cooperation of the Los Gatos-Monte Sereno Police Department, whose officers surrounded the scene, police attempted to arrest Martines-Osorio. Once again, however, he attempted to flee on foot but this time he was captured while trying to jump over a fence. The arrest was logged at 8:48am. 

Another one-of-a-kind Healdsburg resident passed away earlier this month from cancer at age 77, according to the Press Democrat: local textile artist and art teacher Sylvia Seventy. The fascinating, multimedia, Pomo-inspired “vessels” she made (pictured above and below) became quite well-known in certain circles of...

Born and raised in South Los Angeles, Tiffany Austin grew up in a house filled with music. Her parents listened to soul and pop masters like Donny Hathaway and Stevie Wonder, while her Louisiana Creole grandmother introduced her to jazz...

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.

Given all the angst and opinion voiced in previous public hearings (and social media) about the city’s transition to District Elections, Monday nights’ meeting took place in a desert. Fewer than half a dozen members of the public were in the room when the hearing, fourth in a series of five, got underway at the posted “time certain” 6:45pm on March 17. But the meeting set forth the future of Healdsburg district elections for years to come.

Even those who haven’t read the book or watched the movie probably know the plot: Francesca Johnson (Katie Watts-Whitaker) is a disillusioned Italian war bride now stuck in an Iowa farmhouse with a stereotypical American farmer (Matthew T. Witthaus) as a husband. Her husband and the kids have gone to the fair, leaving Francesca alone for four days... Entanglements ensue.

On Monday, March 24, the Healdsburg Museum Docents will present “Three Women’s Lives: 150 Years of Healdsburg Herstory” from 1:30-3:30pm at the Healdsburg Senior Center, 133 Matheson St. The talks about Josefa Carrillo de Fitch, Agnes Call and Isabelle Simi are in honor of Women’s History Month.

This coming Monday will begin a bit differently for most Healdsburgers, as the dawning hours are celebrated with a parade and a party. That doesn’t usually happen, but March 17 is the date of one of the town’s favorite holidays—St. Patrick’s Day. And with...