Local Business

The alerts started flowing in this past Wednesday afternoon: A multi-pronged wildfire, consisting of three spot fires, was burning along Chalk Hill Road in the countryside east of Healdsburg and Windsor. Winds were high and grasses were dry. Locals held their breath while Cal Fire and various other...

In 1926, Foppiano Wines was forced by Prohibition revenue agents to discard 140,000 gallons of red wine into a ditch next to the highway, where the current winery is located. From there, it flowed into a nearby creek and then into the Russian River—but not before locals scooped up buckets full of the illegal beverage...

Healdsburg’s only full-time yoga studio, the nearly 20-year-old Yoga on Center, is moving back to the downtown area this summer—two-and-a-half years after the owners say they got kicked out of their original location at 401 Center St...

At the height of fire weather over Fourth of July weekend — two days after Healdsburg canceled its official fireworks show and Cloverdale canceled its fireworks sales — a wildfire called the Pocket Fire broke out in the Mayacamas Mountains just outside Geyserville late Saturday...

Healdsburg's only full-time yoga studio, the nearly 20-year-old Yoga on Center, is moving back to the downtown area this summer — two-and-a-half years after the owners say they got kicked out of their original location at 401 Center St. It was a light-filled space overlooking...

One more thing to add to the Point Fire damage report I gave you over the weekend: A plot of wine grapes called Lago di Merlo Vineyards near Lake Sonoma may have been destroyed by some of the hot-pink fire retardant dropped by Cal...

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...

The City of Healdsburg has canceled its fireworks show this Fourth of July, thanks to this especially fire-friendly heat wave passing through. The show was going to be staged at Healdsburg High School, per usual. City officials promised it would be “bigger and better than...

The two-story Mediterranean-style cottage at 217 Healdsburg Ave., which for years served as the public walk-in presence of the Chamber of Commerce, is for rent. Though small—it’s less than 700 square feet, 347 on the ground floor—its location could not be better for the right customer: Next door to the H2Hotel and a block’s walk from the Plaza...