Local Business

Longtime Healdsburg resident Frances "Diane" Bertoli — a local school secretary and wife of our former police chief — has passed away at age 87. Diane was reportedly born in British Columbia but moved here as a kid, graduating from Healdsburg High in 1954. More from...

Healdsburg city leaders approved a new, comprehensive event policy at their meeting last week, replacing the outdated one that's been in place for the past decade. And during their discussion, we learned that AVFilm — the local film org that's opening a movie theater downtown —...

The dog park next to the Villa Chanticleer on Fitch Mountain will be closed for at least the next few months, while city crews carry out a "comprehensive renovation project" to fix up the park, local officials announced this week. So that local dog...

On Feb. 22, a memorial service at St. John's will celebrate the life of Shirley Nell-Galvin, who was born in San Francisco and lived in Healdsburg and Windsor on and off for many years. She was 97 when she died last month. Shirley and...

The City of Healdsburg is honoring this year's graduating class of Healdsburg High School seniors with banners of their faces hung around the downtown area. It's a tradition that started, I believe, as a response to the COVID lockdown that stifled some of the...

When school starts back up this fall for the kids at Healdsburg High School, they'll have a new principal: HHS alum Tait Danhausen. He'll be returning to his hometown from Tennessee, where he's been serving as a principal and administrator for a public charter...

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...

Tonight is the big kickoff game at Rec Park for the Healdsburg Prune Packers' 2024 summer baseball season. Our town mayor will be throwing the first pitch, as is tradition. The Prune Packers are a century-old team playing in the California Collegiate League, which...