Healdsburg Pics of the Week: Group Baby Shower, Kayak Love Note, Garden ‘Empowerment Plot’
Pictured above and below: Local nonprofit Corazón Healdsburg hosted a sweet “baby shower” last Tuesday for the largest class to graduate yet from its “Mi Bebé y Yo” prenatal workshop series. Twenty-one families just completed the program, according to Corazón spokesperson Holly Fox — and “for...
City of Healdsburg Hands Out 2nd Round of Public Art Grants
Back in April, Healdsburg city leaders handed out their second-ever round of public art grants to six local initiatives "intended to enrich the public environment for city residents and visitors." This year's winners split a pool of $50,000. City Councilmember Chris Herrod, who has...
Reach For Home to go forward minus founding executive
Colleen Carmichael to seek new calling in trauma teachings and therapy
Arista Winery Sells Healdsburg Tasting Room
The recent trend of local wineries reducing costs by selling off their prime Healdsburg properties — including Thumbprint, Ketcham, Truett Hurst and Comstock, off the top of my head — continues this winter with the McWilliams family’s Arista Winery and tasting room on Westside Road.
(Update, March 12: To clarify,...
Wildfire Left Toxins in Soil Outside Healdsburg: Study
A new study out of Stanford on the harmful toxins left behind by wildfires was partially based on soil samples from a nature preserve on Healdsburg's outskirts, in the Alexander Valley area, according to Nature Communications magazine. While smoke inhalation is a more immediate and well-known...
In Memoriam: Bob Pape
Longtime Healdsburg resident Bob Pape, a well-loved leader in local schools who went on to become a bit of a community fitness guru, passed away earlier this month at the age of 76, according to his obituary — "after a short and intense battle with...
St. Patrick’s Day Parade in Healdsburg: Epic as Ever
I didn’t make it out to Healdsburg’s famous annual St. Patrick’s Day parade on Monday morning, a local tradition that reportedly goes back more than three decades, and boy have I been suffering from a bad bout of FOMO (fear of missing out) while reviewing the...
Healdsburg Cancels Fireworks for Fourth of July 2024
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...
In Memoriam: Thomas C. Reed
A very powerful military man named Thomas C. Reed, who lived in Healdsburg for many years with his wife Kay, passed away last month at age 89. He was reportedly the first U.S. Air Force veteran to become secretary of the whole force, which...
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...










