Farmworkers Claim Retaliation at Bill Foley Vineyard Job
Sonoma County farmworker advocacy org North Bay Jobs With Justice, known for their annual protest during the Healdsburg Wine & Food Experience tasting near the plaza, is making some headway in one of their local campaigns against a familiar name in Healdsburg winemaking: billionaire Bill Foley,...
Healdsburg’s Lunar New Year Fest Canceled Due to Rain
Big PSA tonight! The third annual Lunar New Year festival planned for the Healdsburg plaza tomorrow has been canceled because of this storm headed our way. Even though organizers had planned to hold the event "rain or shine," due to the predicted intensity of...
Healdsburg Fire Season, Summer Weather Preview
It's about that time of year in Healdsburg when we all start bracing for fire season. We've been lucky these past few years to avoid some of the more massive, destructive wildfires that tore through local hills, valleys and towns during the summers of...
Healdsburg Crime Reports Rising: Public Security Cams on the Table
A big theme at the last City Council meeting was local crime trends. Healdsburg police officials presented their stats from over the past year, as they do annually — then used the data to make the case that the city should set up at...
Local real estate duo revamp boulevard house for business
Oftentimes, when businesses move to a new building, they may paint some walls and bring in new furniture. For the folks at Miserlian Baker Real Estate, starting creating a home for their business — and for themselves — meant starting from the ground up.
Healdsburg Rocked by Year’s First Big Rainstorm
From last Saturday morning through Tuesday night, the most damaging storm of the 2024-25 rainy season so far ravaged Healdsburg and the rest of the North Bay for four days straight. (And that’s saying a lot, after the other historic four-dayer we weathered in November.) This time around,...
Healdsburg Senator Mike McGuire Is Having a Real Moment
Healdsburg's most ambitious local boy is all grown up and stepping into the leading role of the California State Senate, called "president pro tempore." Mike McGuire, now 44, was sworn into office Monday "with his right hand raised and his left holding his two-year-old...
Star HHS Culinary Students Headed to State
Eight star culinary students from Healdsburg High School are reportedly headed to SoCal for a major state competition next month: the annual SkillsUSA championships for "culinary arts" and "baking and pastry arts." If any of our kids win at state, like two of them...
Healdsburg Pic of the Day: Holiday Window Art
Healdsburg resident Barbara Wollner just took this pic of some uplifting new window art at the Digital XPress print shop at 401 Center St., right next to the old Raven film center. She says it was painted by Santa Rosa artist Terrence Howell.
Healdsburg’s Historic River Belle Inn Might Close Soon
The Press Democrat is reporting that Vertice Hospitality Group, the company that oversees Michelin darling SingleThread, is closing the River Belle Inn along Healdsburg’s western riverbank — just two years after buying and reopening it, to much fanfare. Here’s what the PD learned:
A Healdsburg mansion built in 1895...











