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October 17, 2025

The trouble with texting :)

Actors Brady Morales-Woolery and Lizzie Calogero
Who hasn't been tripped up by the slip of a finger while texting with family or been infuriated with ducking autocorrect? Who hasn’t mistakenly wished for the death of their grandfather in a text chain with a sibling and then found themselves exploring options for doing so? That's the premise of 'The Burdens,' the play now on stage at The 222...

Storm KOs tree, Power Line on Reed Court

It has been called a lot of things: the Pineapple Express, Atmospheric Rivers, a Cyclone Bomb and the Open Storm Door. Whether or not Healdsburg residents need to come up with their own name for it, there’s every indication the January Storms of ’22...

Healdsburg Happenings, May 16 – 22

Kingfish in concert
The 3rd annual Healdsburg Wine & Food Experience begins on Thursday, May 16, but that's not the only thing going on in Healdsburg Happenings this week. More music, meetings, farmers markets and a Fire & Safety Expo in Cloverdale...

Harvest: Secrets of local gardens

Healdsburg's gardener Bob Buck
Healdsburg is full of food secrets. Someone knows who has the best mulberries (the word on the street is Preston and Millbrook Farms). Someone else swears by the broccoli at Noble Goat. There’s a bee person everyone keeps telling me I have to meet—and a seed guy, too.

Luxury Rebound: Healdsburg’s $2 Million Home Sales Surge

View of Healdsburg from Borel Road
As Q1 2025 data reveals, Healdsburg’s real estate market is defying conventional wisdom with a 150% surge in luxury home sales while Sonoma County’s high-end market continues to decline. These counterintuitive trends are reshaping our understanding of the local market in ways that might surprise even longtime residents.

Healdsburg Happenings, Dec. 12

Klezmatics
Annual fundraiser for Healdsburg Rotary Club to fund scholarship programs for Healdsburg High School students: an “all you can eat” crab dinner, a silent auction and a live auction MC’d by local personalities. Villa Chanticleer, Dec. 14, plus more events this week.

Giving a big hand to the Geyserville Sculpture Trail

Bryce Jones and Bob Sherman at the newly-oved Agraria art piece
Agraria is a 7.5 ton (or larger) hand created by environmental artist Larry Kirkland of Portland, Oregon, and installed at the mall in December 1996. A full 12 feet long, six feet tall and three feet wide, it was carved from a single marble block twice its size from Carrara marble in Torrano, Italy, where Michelangelo got his stone. It's now at a new home in Geyserville...

Rockets to Fly at Healdsburg High

A six-year crusade to incorporate rocket science into the official school-day curriculum at Healdsburg High School, led by art teacher Linus Lancaster, culminated Feb. 22 with a lunchtime rocket launch.

Tasting Room Tipping Point?

A relatively modest proposal to build a 1,220-square-foot, 45-person tasting room inside an existing warehouse in downtown Healdsburg has ignited a familiar debate among residents about the town’s core character. This would be the 28th wine-tasting room in Healdsburg, city planning officials said at a...

Sun Day: Activists focus on new solar holiday

Solar array in Healdsburg
Following two retreats where members of Climate Action Healdsburg (CAH) workshopped ways to continue their commitment to environmental concerns even as the social and political landscape was changing dramatically, the group decided to join the national Sun Day movement, at thirdact.org/sun-day.
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Arts & Entertainment

Yale Whiffenpoofs

Yale Whiffenpoofs to land on Raven stage Sunday

The very name “Whiffenpoofs” is whimsical, but followers of the collegiate music space know that the repertoire and reputation of this Yale University a cappella group is anything but laughable. Sure there are old Yale drinking songs, certainly a bit of jazz-era energy, as well as more modern pop. But are they classical? And what exactly is a “whiffenpoof” anyway?
Happy filmgoers await the previews.

New cinema opens this week