Editorial

"The work of Healdsburg’s city staff is inherently apolitical, but staying above the fray can be a challenge during a contentious election season like the one we are all enduring. I’ve worked through a lot of elections, but the tone of this one—both locally and nationally—has at times been discouraging..." So writes Healdsburg City Manager Jeff Kay in this opinion column...

By Shaun McCaffery It seems everyone in Healdsburg knows someone who grew up here or works here but is struggling to make ends meet because of the incredibly high price of housing. For 24 years we haven’t been able to keep up with our housing...

Measure O, which will be on the Nov. 5 ballot, would ease restrictions on new housing construction imposed by Healdsburg’s Growth Management Ordinance (GMO) by creating zones of exclusion from the GMO. But that’s not the whole story...

Ariel Kelley attended the DNC last week, and found the current political excitement possible not only because of the Harris-Walz campaign and the Democratic Convention—"to me it’s actually about something so much bigger than a few days in Chicago," she wrote....

The State Legislature is currently considering two bills that would place the bond measure on the ballot. Should it pass, the bond would represent the largest voter-approved climate investment in U.S. history, with at least 40% of the funds directed toward the most vulnerable communities....

"We have finalized a ballot measure for Healdsburg’s voters that encourages housing that is best suited to Healdsburg’s workers," writes Councilmember Chris Herrod, "near the city center, close to transportation and jobs, and where higher density units make the most sense, both cosmetically and economically (and in accord with our climate goals)..."

Yosemite Valley is known to many. But few know there was, and is, a second valley of extraordinary beauty in Yosemite National Park. It’s called the Valley of the Hetch Hetchy...

Come celebrate National Library Week at Sonoma County Library, from April 7-13. The theme this year is “Ready, Set, Library!” National Library Week honors the invaluable contributions of libraries and library workers in communities across the nation, and serves as a reminder of the...

100 years ago this week: With many residents of this city and its outlying valleys and many visitors from other parts of the county present, a new subordinate grange was organized in Healdsburg Monday night. The organization meeting was held in Red Men’s Hall, 43 persons having signed as charter members. The charter is to be kept open until next Saturday, when a meeting will be held for the purpose of closing it.

A Geyserville man submits the following proposed slogans, which will portray the idea that the Chamber is seeking to get at by means of this contest: “The Capital of the Prune World.” “The source of a nation’s breakfast.” “For good homes and prunes that pay.”