Olive-oil shop coming to Healdsburg Plaza
A vacant plaza spot this prime was bound to find a tenant sooner or later: It’s been just over three months since Thumbprint Cellars left its 15-year home at 102 Matheson St. on the southwest corner of the plaza, and now we know who will...
Real estate market shifts as Healdsburg adapts
Take 401 Piper St. It was a great product, so we priced it at the absolute top end of comparable properties and we found two buyers to bid up the price beyond expectations to sell it in a day. The buyers were out-of-town buyers looking for a retirement place—the perfect buyers.
In Memoriam: Pat McCracken
Patricia "Pat" McCracken, a lifelong Healdsburg resident and familiar face at front desks around town, died last month at age 86. "She grew up and lived in Healdsburg where she met her husband Richard," her obituary says. "They had three children: Allison Adele, Marc...
Sam Williams, Young Healdsburg Dad, Dies in 101 Rollover Crash
Healdsburg resident Sam Williams, the 25-year-old father of a young boy, died in a solo-vehicle crash along Highway 101 last week, according to the Sonoma County Sheriff and the California Highway Patrol. Sam's loved ones have since set up a fundraiser for his son...
Chamber Spotlights Women in Business
Though a month late for American Business Women’s Day on Sept. 22, the Healdsburg Chamber of Commerce is making up for missed time with a “unique and empowering event” at Coyote Sonoma on Tuesday, Oct. 24.
The two-part program begins with a Women in Business...
Total Overhaul for Wohler Bridge South of Town
You know Wohler Bridge, that giant one-laner over the Russian River just to our south, where you can cross from Westside Road over to the Forestville area? Starting this summer, the century-old bridge will be undergoing a massive reconstruction project to make it more...
A Scream in the Night
The members of Healdsburg’s Noon Rotary got a lesson in “living with lions” (the original name for Quinton Martins’ mountain lion research project, now run in association with Audubon Canyon Ranch), when Ami Bluestone showed up to preview “The Path of Puma-36,” a short movie she made about tracking a collared lion on his search for a place to live in the North Bay.
Two Big Healdsburg Wineries for Sale
Two big Healdsburg wineries are up for sale right now: the Comstock winery at 1290 Dry Creek Rd., that giant wine-tasting emporium you see on your left as you drive out of town, and the Quivira & LaFollette winery out further in the valley...
Foley Closes Chalkboard, Plans New Restaurant With ‘Latin Cuisine’
Chalkboard, the high-end Healdsburg restaurant on the ground floor of Hotel Les Mars at 27 North St., closed abruptly late last month. Under the hotel’s signature striped awnings, its street-facing windows are now covered in brown paper.
Both the hotel and restaurant space are owned...
Healdsburg Rain Totals, River Levels
As I'm sure you noticed, we got a real walloping of rain over the weekend — pushing the Russian River up to the 15-foot mark in the spot where they measure it in Healdsburg, just upstream of Memorial Bridge. (Twenty feet is when they start...










