Agave Restaurant Closed For Holidays
Agave Healdsburg, the well-loved Mexican food joint in the Safeway shopping center, will be closed through the end of this weekend for a "holiday season break." They reopen next Monday, Jan. 8. (Facebook Groups & Agave Healdsburg)
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...
City of Healdsburg to Host Workshop on More Housing
Last week I shared a piece from KRCB news radio on the various options Healdsburg city leaders are considering to solve what they believe to be a shortage of market-rate housing available in town. One of the big issues, they told the station, is...
Head of ‘Farm to Pantry’ Nonprofit Resigns
Celebrity chef Duskie Estes, the very public face of Healdsburg food-justice nonprofit Farm to Pantry, has decided to step down as the org's executive director at the end of this month. "It is critical that devote my time to my family at this time,"...
Healdsburg Vineyard Worker Dies in Tractor Accident: Update
We now know the name of the young vineyard worker crushed to death by a tractor in a Dry Creek Valley vineyard last week. It was Geyserville resident Ezequiel Orozco, 28, who "was driving the tractor on a muddy private road at 6355 Mountain...
Ketcham Winery Selling Lavish Healdsburg Estate House
The private Ketcham Estate winery out Eastside Road, located just past the railroad bridge overpass at the intersection of Eastside and Old Redwood Highway, may soon lose its “estate” aspect, as the Ketcham family is now looking for a buyer for their $3.5 million property....
New Childcare, Preschool Options in Healdsburg
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...
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,...
In Memoriam: Dennis Parrish
Friends of Redwood Auto Body owner Dennis Parrish say he passed away recently in his early 60s. Dennis has reportedly been running his "full service frame, body and paint shop" on Kennedy Lane for more than four decades. "We lost a local giant," says friend Daniel Stevens,...
Early Competition in Race for Healdsburg’s State Senate Seat
Another candidate has joined Healdsburg resident and Sonoma County Supervisor James Gore in the race to replace State Sen. Mike McGuire, who’s also a Healdsburgian, when he’s termed out in 2026. Her name is Natalie Rogers, and she’s a rising Santa Rosa politician who currently sits...
Sports
Greyhounds swing into Redwood league season
The softball team turned up for Tuesday’s game against Piner about the same time the rains began to fall, so the meeting of the NCS Redwood teams was postponed to a later date. The Greyhounds were hoping for an upset to reverse their four-game losing streak—the last time they won a game was against Willits, 13-3, on March 9.










