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December 16, 2025

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,...

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...

In Memoriam: Charlotte ‘Shally’ Schultz

Healdsburg retiree Charlotte Schultz, who went by Shally, has passed away at age 81. After working for decades as a public-school teacher in SoCal, she and her husband Wally moved to Healdsburg in 2006, according to her obituary. Shally was a big volunteer, reading...

Levi’s GranFondo, Local Bike Race, Now the Richest of Its Kind

A world-famous annual bike race called Levi’s GranFondo, which sends 1,500-plus hardcore cyclists racing down multiple routes in Windsor, Healdsburg and the surrounding countryside each spring, is set to return to our roads on Saturday, April 19. Actually, for its first 13 or so years of...

Quail & Condor Bakery Maxed After National Press

Speaking of the press effect! There’s always been a crowd at Healdsburg’s newest and fanciest bakery, Quail & Condor, since it opened in 2020 — and if you stop by on a given afternoon, there’s usually not very much good stuff left. But Sonoma Magazine reports...

Healdsburg Election Results

Ballots from the primary election on Tuesday are still being counted, so the results aren't set in stone yet — especially in the tight races. Here's what I'm seeing as of Thursday morning, though. For the statewide U.S. Senate seat left empty when Dianne Feinstein...

ID on Jane Doe’s Body, Found Near Healdsburg

A young woman whose dead body was found on the rural outskirts of Healdsburg more than three decades ago, but was always just a Jane Doe, has finally been identified as Vallejo resident Robin Fay Hendrick. This, thanks to a Sebastopol-based nonprofit called DNA...

REIBT Basketball Tournament Results

Wondering what came of this year's RIEBT basketball tournament at Healdsburg High, held in the school gym last week? Our boys team was eliminated in the first round, and our girls team came in third place out of eight. Overall, Justin-Siena High won on the girls side and...

Immigrant Stories Coming to Healdsburg Wine Library

Did you know that there's a "wine library" housed inside the Healdsburg branch of the Sonoma County Library? And they just got a grant to "listen to and save the oral histories of immigrant families employed in our local wine industry," according to a rep for the wine...

Healdsburg Pics of the Week: MLK Mini Art

As part of a Sonoma County Library initiative for Black History Month, kids across the county have been creating tiny paintings over the past few weeks to honor the legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. The photo above shows some of the art created by kids...

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REIBT returns to Healdsburg

Healdsburg High School students are well aware that this is REIBT Weekend—when both of the school’s gyms are the scene of boys and girls basketball games among teams from Humboldt, Mendocino, Sonoma and Marin counties. Both tournament brackets have been finalized, and some good basketball already underway...
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