Healdsburg Cops Bust Creekside Encampment
Last Thursday around 8:30am, Healdsburg police officers say they came across “multiple encampments that were littered with waste and debris” along the railroad tracks between Grove Street and Healdsburg Avenue. The camps were located just south of the community center, and “well within 150...
Thumbprint Cellars Closes Healdsburg Tasting Room
On the southwest corner of the plaza, at 102 Matheson St., the Thumbprint Cellars team just ran their final weekend of wine tastings at their 15-year home in downtown Healdsburg. Second-generation winery owner Carter Lindstrom-Dake, son of Thumbprint founders Scott and Erica, told me over...
Bike Race, Marathon Take Over Rural Healdsburg
There were two large athletic events in rural Healdsburg over the weekend, both of them an annual thing: a world-famous bike race called Levi's GranFondo and a spring marathon out at Lake Sonoma. Both got started first thing Saturday morning. For the bike race,...
Healdsburg Plaza Wi-Fi Improvements Ahead
After years of crappy — albeit free — Wi-Fi service in the Healdsburg plaza and the surrounding area, our city leaders have decided to upgrade the plaza Wi-Fi system so that people can actually rely on the connection, for a price tag of around $100,000 in...
Local Gift Options for Wine-lovers
If wine is on a holiday shopping list—whether one is the host, the wine-bearing guest or the gift-giver for wine-loving and foodie friends—one may look no further than local wineries, tasting rooms and curated shops.
Magnum or a Mystery
Responsible for the holiday wine selections this...
Easter Crow Cuts Power to Healdsburg: Report
As the kiddos of Healdsburg scrambled for Easter eggs on Sunday morning, a local crow caused a power outage that affected large swaths of the city, according to local officials. It all felt very mythical. "The first reports of lost power came in just...
St. Patrick’s in Healdsburg: What to Know
As I'm sure you've heard, tomorrow is a big day in Healdsburg. It's a big day most places — but especially here. Expect drunken, Irish-inspired revelry all across the downtown area from before the sun rises to after it sets. It all starts with the...
New CEO selected at Healdsburg District Hospital
James Schuessler replacing the retiring Joe Harrington
Could Trump’s Funding Cut Threats Affect Healdsburg?
In case you haven’t heard, the Trump administration issued a sweeping order Tuesday that “froze trillions of dollars in federal grants and loans and sparked mass confusion across the country,” in the words of the New York Times. This order was then blocked by a federal...
Historic Rainstorm Rocks Healdsburg
In case you haven’t noticed, it’s been raining. Hard. So hard, that all sorts of flooding, mudsliding and other havoc has unfolded across Healdsburg and environs over the past four days.
In the time since a “bomb cyclone” mated with an “atmospheric river” and started unleashing its waters on Healdsburg...











