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April 16, 2026

Turkey Trot brings out the winners 

Healdsburg Turkey Trot 2025
The 14th Annual Healdsburg Turkey Trot was hosted by the Rotary Club of Healdsburg Sunrise, which partners with Healdsburg Running Company and the City of Healdsburg.  Each partner is essential to the event’s success.

Fudge Ends 30-year Career in Windsor

Deb Fudge at Town Green in Windsor
Debora Fudge has played a key role in shaping Windsor since 1994. With Fudge planning to step back from civic life, and heading out for a vacation in Europe this week, it seemed a good time to learn more about how she became so involved in Windsor and what she thinks of the town now.

Food aficionados embrace the Healdsburg experience

Under the big tent at the Healdsburg Food & Wine Experience
Though the price of admission may prove daunting to some, it’s the only way to attend the Welcome Celebration at Mayacamas Golf Course on Thursday, May 16, and Friday’s Platinum Lunch at MacMurray Estate and a Platinum Dinner at Chalk Hill Estate, each with celebrated chefs and winemakers or sommeliers - or both....

City launches new community space

Farmers Market farmers
Space for vendors has always been a concern for the Farmers’ Market organization and the vendors themselves. “I’ll confess to not being a fan of it initially,” Janet Ciel said. “I realized it would be challenging to put vendors up there (on the stage area), as they can’t drive a car onto it. Everything will have to go up via stairs or a ramp.” But as she’s become used to the space, she’s recognized its potential.

Multilayered Wine on the Plaza

Tasting room
"White walls reaching for an impossibly high ceiling, a haven that appeared like some Xanadu on the west side of the city square just when we needed to hide. Why we needed to hide is another matter," writes Daedalus Howell about finding a place to slake his dark thirst when he discovered Marine Layer Wines. ..

Here Comes the Twilight Parade!

Parade with flags
Marching bands, fire engines, pickup trucks and flatbeds—along with colorful dancing troupes and campaigning politicians—will march through town on Thursday to kick off the 75th anniversary of the Healdsburg Future Farmers Country Fair, or HFFCF...

Summer Brings Music, Dance to Wine Country Towns

Party at the Ranch
Summer afternoons are filled with live music most days of the week in Wine Country But one popular local venue for weekly music in town is closing at the end of the month—and its future is anything but clear.

When does memory become history?

Healdsburg Museum exhibit
The new exhibition at the Healdsburg Museum puts history front and center in the lives of many of the museum’s visitors themselves. It’s not about 19th century horse-traders or pre-Columbian basket weaving, but the era of sex, drugs, and rock ’n’ roll: the 1970s.

Finding the feast for Thanksgiving Day in Healdsburg

Thanksgiving dinner
While in normal times cooking a big meal at home is possible if not enjoyable, this year’s ballooning guest list makes it all but essential to call in reinforcements and pick up a Thanksgiving meal in advance, in order to be ready for the holiday.

Ringing In the New Year, 2024

New Year's Eve offers a variety of fine dining options, parties, and kid-friendly activities in the Healdsburg area, as well as transportation options for those without designated drivers.
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Arts & Entertainment

‘Word Art’ in everyday life

The month culminates with a reading by former California Poet Laureate David Gioia on Friday, April 24, at The 222. Gioia, the former head of the National Endowment for the Arts and a prolific writer, authored Can Poetry Matter?
Kelly and Noah Dorrance

Roots in the community