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August 26, 2026

Chicken Pot Pies Save Cloverdale Drive-In?

A former "food runner" for SingleThread on North Street, Healdsburg's fanciest and most decorated restaurant, is now running an increasingly popular chicken pot pie operation up at a "historic drive-in on Cloverdale’s main drag," the Press Democrat reports. Nicole Hinchliffe and her husband, who...

Black Sports Journalist Felt Profiled at Healdsburg Boutique

Top sports journalist and personality Marc Spears says he felt racially profiled for being Black on a recent visit to the ANTHEM home boutique on the Healdsburg plaza, at the corner of Center and Matheson streets. ANTHEM is a chain with five locations across the Bay...

Petition Asks for Giant Healdsburg River Park

You know that huge chunk of wasteland along the far bank of the Russian River through town, next to Memorial Bridge? For over 75 years, it was home to a sand and gravel mine, run by a company called Syar Industries. Now, all 88...

Dominic Foppoli: 7 Women Move Forward With Sex-Assault Claims Against Healdsburg Winery Son

Remember Dominic Foppoli? Over the past few years, the heir to Healdsburg's Christopher Creek Winery on Limerick Lane and disgraced ex-mayor of Windsor has been accused by over a dozen women of leveraging his status to get them into situations where he could sexually assault and abuse them. Last...

Mini late-spring heat wave hits Healdsburg

Let me just step in here and preach to the choir about how insanely hot it was over the weekend. Almost record-settingly so, according to Press Democrat reporter Alana Minkler, who reports that “by midafternoon Friday, temperatures in Cloverdale and Healdsburg hovered around 100 degrees” and “at the...

Alexander Valley Pruning Contest Coming Up — Now, With Women

The Alexander Valley Winegrowers group, which oversees all the grape-growing activity in the valley northeast of Healdsburg, is hosting their local grapevine pruning contest this Feb. 13, aka Valentine's Eve, for the 24th year. All workers at Alexander Valley vineyards are invited to enter...

In Memoriam: Barry Steele

Well-known local businessman Barry Steele reportedly passed away last month. The former owner of the Fairview Inn & Suites at the south end of town "died unexpectedly" at age 81 "on the land he loved in Geyserville," his obituary says. More from the obit: "Barry 'Like...

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)

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...

In Memoriam: Linda Pelm

San Francisco native and longtime Healdsburg resident Linda Pelm passed away last weekend at the age of 71. "After graduating high school, Linda married her high school sweetheart, Nicholas Pelm, embarking on a journey of love and companionship that would endure for over 50...

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Nearing the finish line as track season ends

The “galloping Greyhounds” had several middle-distance runners in the hunt for much of the season, and at the NCS Meet of Champions in Dublin they had their chance to run their best races.
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