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Now, the core crew of 200 or so Edge Esmeralda participants who walked, biked and boarded around town this month—plus hundreds of others who dropped in for shorter stints—are preparing to vacate their Healdsburg hotel rooms, or wherever else they found to crash. And plenty of locals are left wondering what just happened, if anything at all...

“So what’s the difference between ours and every one of the other ones? What keeps coming up is that it’s not an event where just people are drinking and shoving food into their mouths because it’s great. We have a real connection to the land that they don’t have. Healdsburg has this agricultural history that’s real and palpable, and you can feel it when you’re here.”

“Sonoma County is an ideal location for TEDx,” said Marilyn Nagel, executive producer of TEDx Sonoma County. “TEDx thrives where there is a high density of ideas, diverse storytellers and an audience hungry for connection.”

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Neurologists say that when you vividly imagine performing an action like shooting a basketball or playing piano, your brain activates many of the same networks it uses in real practice. In other words, mental rehearsal can measurably improve your actual performance. Many athletes use this trick. Do you?

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...

More than 100 people with military service during wartime and peace gathered at the Villa Chanticleer Annex for the 17th annual Veterans Day breakfast,. These were the men and women one sees around Healdsburg working in local businesses, shopping at the markets, helping out with civic events and, in general and in private, making Healdsburg a better place.

“We traveled a lot when I was growing up. I’m an only child, and so that made it feasible.” That broad background in travel came to define Liza Gershman’s journey, although it was as a photographer that she began to build a career,

Thanksgiving Day gets off to an early start in Healdsburg, and Nov. 23, 2023, was no different. Almost  3,000 participants registered for the fundraising Turkey Trot benefit, “plus lots of kids in strollers and dogs,” according to Susanne Esquivel. “The youngest Trotter was two...

Chef Douglas Keane has now written a revealing and insightful memoir, 'Culinary Leverage.' Last week we spoke with the 53-year-old chef about the book, his interest in dog rescue, his opinion of social media, trendy restaurants and even induction cooking. 

As he watched from his lawn chair, surrounded by friends in his Windsor front yard, 105-year-old Dick Sharp looked up to see the Sonoma County Sheriff’s Henry-1 helicopter circling over his house, in respect and acknowledgement of his military service.