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A Christmas Eve effort by the Grinch to dampen the holiday spirits of Healdsburg fell flat on Tuesday, despite the cynical efforts of the mountain-dwelling elf to topple the city's 51-foot Christmas tree in its Plaza and extinguish its colorful lights for the rest of the year.

Remember those cartoons during the Covid Era where people from the expiring year would look in terror around the corner at the arriving year, saying, “What now?” It’s sort of like that all over again, as so much has changed since January it doesn’t seem possible that there’s more to come.

Dec. 11, 7:08am: The RP said a vehicle was driven recklessly on Harmon Street. Officers arrived, but the vehicle was gone on arrival and unable to be located.

The doors were thrown open and the holiday lights turned on as the city held an Open House at the new Foley Family Community Pavilion on Monday, Dec. 15, with hot chocolate and cookies and pretzels and speeches.

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...

When he was 33, future steel baron Andrew Carnegie wrote, “Man must have no idol and the amassing of wealth is one of the worst species of idolatry! No idol is more debasing than the worship of money!” So he continues to give it away.

Residents and others are encouraged to call Healdsburg Police Dispatch as needed at 707.431.3377, operational 24/7. Here are this week's dispatch entries...

That’s the takeaway of this week’s meeting: an insistence on use of the Community Pavilion, and a denial of the Plaza location to any other event than a select few. 'Signature Events" are simply those that have been authorized by the City Council for use of the Healdsburg Plaza...

As the DMV stated, “This amendment to Waymo’s existing deployment and driverless testing permits allows the company to operate in new regions of both Southern and Northern California.” That statement continues, “In Northern California, the service area now includes the broader Bay Area and Sacramento," which means Healdsburg.

A murder suspect from Cloverdale changed cars in Healdsburg following his crime. While the search for the suspect was underway, Healdsburg residents wondered why they had not received any NIXLE alerts about the presence of a murder suspect in town. When the question was posed on Facebook, the Sheriff’s Office responded...