Healdsburg Pics of the Week: New Seed Hut, ‘Wicked Slush’ Wreckage
Check out the cute new hut for seeds and books at Badger Park! City Manager Jeff Kay announced its debut in his last community report, saying: “Despite the rain showers, our dedicated parks team has been hard at work, tackling important projects and making much needed...
Healdsburg’s Alliance Health Center Gets Backup Power System for Natural Disasters
This just happened last month, and it's even more relevant now: The Alliance Medical Center next to Healdsburg Hospital on University Avenue has installed a backup solar-power system that will allow the clinic to stay up and running during wildfires and other emergencies, even...
City of Healdsburg to Host Workshop on More Housing
Last week I shared a piece from KRCB news radio on the various options Healdsburg city leaders are considering to solve what they believe to be a shortage of market-rate housing available in town. One of the big issues, they told the station, is...
Healdsburg Offers Public Art Grants for Second Year
Local artists will have until 5 pm. on Feb. 2 to apply for a slice of the $50,000 in public art funding that the City of Healdsburg plans to distribute in 2024. "We are looking for artists who can bring unique and thought-provoking pieces...
A Saintly Spot in Dry Creek Valley
Healdsburg has a new heart; it’s called Little Saint.
In the luminous glass and steel building on the corner of North and Foss streets, which until 2018 housed the gathering space and eatery SHED, Little Saint has taken up residence with the same passionate mission...
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...
Bless This Rig: Bell’s Gets a New Ambulance
It was an unusual sight on Matheson Street at St. John the Baptist Catholic Church one morning last week—Father Rafael Karekatt was dressed in his ceremonial finery, offering prayers and shaking holy water inside and all around a brand new Mercedes Sprinter ambulance, blessing...
Legal High Comes to Healdsburg
As the first cannabis dispensary opened in Healdsburg, more than one customer observed he was cutting down on VMT (Vehicle Miles Traveled), a key metric in the city’s goal of reducing greenhouse gasses. The next nearest dispensary is 10 miles away in Larkfield, and beyond that twice that far to Cloverdale...
Local favorite Downtown Bakery and Creamery put up for sale
When you walk into Downtown Bakery and Creamery on Center Street, the scent of warm scones envelops you in a comforting hug and the familiar sound of the bread slicer rings out as locals line up for their morning coffee.
‘I went against a dragon’: Salon moves to survive impacts of COVID
The owner and operator of Vanity the Salon, a Healdsburg beauty parlor, has moved to a new location, after nearly two years of struggling to keep her business — in an industry particularly hard hit by the pandemic — alive.













