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Healdsburg
March 3, 2026

A special time, thanks to Rotary

The Rotary Clubs of North Sonoma County debuted a new summer activity program last Sunday, aimed at children and youth with special needs and their families.

Deficit greeted WUSD’s new business manager arrives

Wade Roach came to Windsor with dreams of new buildings, but

Treasures: A new museum exhibit

Healdsburg Museum and Historical Society’s first exhibition of the year runs until May 28, and showcases the range of the museum’s collection. Highlights include Southern Pomo and Western Wappo baskets, paintings of Alice Haigh Dixon (who also was the 1896 Healdsburg Floral Festival Queen), a hooked rug created by Grace Hudson, the original Healdsburg plat map, a ball and chain used in Healdsburg’s first jail, vintage prune tending, kitchen and laundry tools, fashions of the 1860s to the 1960s and items of Pomo, rancho and pioneer history.

Sonoma County Crab Season On Hold

Dungeness Crab
Our local Dungeness crab season is on hold again this year, "due to the risk of humpback whales and endangered sea turtles being caught in fishing equipment," the Eater SF food blog reports. State officials will do their next risk assessment on Dec. 21, but right now it's looking...

Letters to the Editor, Sept. 12

Several letters were received these past two weeks about Measure O, the city's proposal on the Nov. 5 ballot to amend the Growth Management Ordinance, or GMO...

Recipients announced for United Way wildfire recovery grants

United Way of the Wine Country’s Wildfire Recovery and Resilience Neighborhood Grants Program (WRNGP) has awarded ten grants ranging from $4,000 to $25,000. These grants will help residents rebuild and recover from the October 2017 wildfires and build the resiliency necessary to address future disasters in some cases.

Letters to the Editor 10-2-14

Open letter to Deb Fudge  and James Gore

Happy Birthday, Otto

The big news this week is that the Sonoma County-born white rhinoceros Otto Lang celebrated his first birthday on Tuesday. He was born April 2, 2023, with a birth weight of about 100 pounds—after Safari West’s rhino-love doctors spent nearly 15 years trying to...

Teacher strike averted in Sebastopol’s Twin Hills Union School District

On Aug. 9, days before union teachers were poised to strike in Sebastopol, the Twin Hills Teachers Association (THTA) ratified an agreement over salary raises after finding a compromise with the Twin Hills Union School District (THUSD) they could accept.

Letters to the Editor 5-30-13

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