Local Business

There’s a new childcare option at the Healdsburg Community Center for parents looking to drop off their infants, toddlers and preschoolers on weekdays: an outpost of the Sonoma County branch of the YWCA, or Young Women’s Christian Association. (An international org that was founded on...

El Milagro incorporates family recipes, fresh food

The news that a new movie theater might be coming to Healdsburg swept through town like advance notice on a blockbuster, but it wasn’t supposed to be that way. At a recent private after-hours gathering at Cartograph Winery, a local tasting room, displays of the...

At the height of fire weather over Fourth of July weekend — two days after Healdsburg canceled its official fireworks show and Cloverdale canceled its fireworks sales — a wildfire called the Pocket Fire broke out in the Mayacamas Mountains just outside Geyserville late Saturday...

Right in the middle of the storm on Monday, a national day of action against President Donald Trump’s calls to round up and deport undocumented immigrants was felt here in Healdsburg, where at least two businesses closed their doors for “A Day Without Immigrants.” Lola’s Market...

Another person in town frustrated with Future Farmers parade traffic on Thursday, May 22, apparently took it out on a pair of Black delivery truck drivers whose vehicle was blocking her car — and unfortunately for the woman in question, the whole thing was...

Healdsburg’s most familiar busker, the inimitable Doc Cummings, has passed away in his early 70s, according to friends and family on Facebook. His name was Donald O. Cummings, but he reportedly went by his initials — “Doc” — for short. I’m not sure how Doc died,...

Adel’s Restaurant, opened 34 years ago and as such perhaps the oldest continuously operated restaurant in Healdsburg, closed its doors for the last time on Wednesday afternoon, Nov. 29. The diner on Dry Creek Road just off the Highway 101 off-ramp has been a popular...