Local Business

We’ve been getting all sorts of gifts from the sky in recent weeks. One big one came last Thursday night as the Northern Lights returned to the North Bay and a wave of aurora borealis flashed its pretty colors much further south than usual, in an encore from spring....

Everyone was pretty sure this would happen, but now it's a done deal: Healdsburg High School's consistently excellent girls basketball team won the league championship game against Rancho Cotate on Saturday night. This means they took the No. 1 spot out of seven teams...

Get this: Gracianna Winery in Healdsburg is now offering virtual wine tastings. Basically, they'll mail a $75 kit to everyone in your tasting group, including four different wines and "tasting note cards" for each — then host a live, guided tasting for the group...

The race to take Healdsburg politician Jim Wood's second district seat in the California State Assembly, which covers large swaths of rural NorCal, has been seriously heating up in recent weeks. The seat will be up for grabs in November, because Wood has decided...

We'll see a measure on our ballots this March, called Measure H, that would add a half-cent sales tax to any purchases made within Sonoma County. The resulting money — around $60 million per year, or $1.5 million in Healdsburg specifically — would add...

A TV news crew from CBS stopped by our little town during the recent storm to explore a clever news angle. "One Sonoma County town remembers three years ago, when their water supply almost ran dry," the CBS anchor says in the resulting segment....

Healdsburg father of six Joe De Benedetti, who was deeply involved in local schools and the wine industry, has passed away at age 91. After a stint in the U.S. Navy during the Korean War, and some years living and working down in Pacifica,...

By now you've probably heard about the alleged parking-lot stabbing and tire-slashing spree at the Healdsburg Community Center that led to a three-hour police pursuit through town a couple of weeks ago, on the night of Tuesday, April 30. Local police have since named...

Have you heard of Pacaso? It’s an insanely successful real-estate startup from San Francisco that lets buyers co-own luxury homes on the timeshare model, then use the Pacaso app to take care of all the scheduling and maintenance stuff. Ever since Pacaso set foot in Healdsburg's Dry Creek Valley...