Arista Winery Sells Healdsburg Tasting Room
The recent trend of local wineries reducing costs by selling off their prime Healdsburg properties — including Thumbprint, Ketcham, Truett Hurst and Comstock, off the top of my head — continues this winter with the McWilliams family’s Arista Winery and tasting room on Westside Road.
(Update, March 12: To clarify,...
New Flights, Jobs Coming to Sonoma County Airport
Avelo Airlines, known as the Sonoma County Airport's budget option, is planning to expand their wine-country empire this spring. The airline, which is based down in Burbank on the outskirts of L.A., just announced they'll be opening a large "base" at our local airport on...
2024 Lineup for Healdsburg ‘Tuesdays in the Plaza’
The lineup was just announced for Tuesdays in the Plaza, a warm-weather public ceremony for almost four decades now. And just like for the FFA parade, you'd better get your chairs out there early. Christian Kallen, news editor of the Healdsburg Tribune, described the...
Eleventh Annual Sonoma County Restaurant Week
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The Trading Post wants to ‘cook for Cloverdale’
The Trading Post is leaning into its roots in the new year by reflecting on changes it can make to better suit the needs and interests of the community.
Healdsburg Future Farmers Parade, Fair Wrap Up 75th Season
Soooo the 75th annual Healdsburg Future Farmers parade and fair over this long Memorial Day weekend were a total smash, per usual. Aside from a guy I saw flag down a Bell's ambulance in the middle of the parade route (not sure what happened,...
In Memoriam: Arline Smith
Longtime Healdsburg resident Arline Hotle Smith passed away last month at age 89. She and her husband of 62 years, Bill, "moved to Healdsburg with their three children in 1976," according to her obituary. They were known to "travel extensively on their boat, circling...
Dry Creek Timeshares Still on the Market
Remember Pacaso, the luxury real-estate company that was getting some rural Healdsburg residents pretty riled up a couple years back for "marketing second home ownership opportunities using a timeshare model in unincorporated Dry Creek Valley," according to the Healdsburg Tribune? Well, it looks like Pacaso is still...
Healdsburg’s Memorial Beach Now Open for Summer
Just in time to get us through this heat wave, Memorial Beach opened for the summer season on Monday, July 1. It’s not just a big, sad pile of sand anymore!
From Sonoma County parks officials, who oversee our little stretch of river sand: "The...
NoMAD claims ‘maker space’ north of North
From Willi’s Seafood to Solful, the place has possibilities
The businesses north of North Street in Healdsburg sometimes find themselves left out of the foot traffic from weekend visitors. “It’s a no-man’s land up here, you know,” said Jim Heid, owner of CraftWork in the...











