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Drama Continues at Healdsburg’s Shuttered ‘Molti Amici’ Restaurant

OK, so you remember how local Italian restaurant Molti Amici suffered a fall from grace last November and was forced to close its doors just over a year after opening? The three SingleThread alumni who opened the high-fashion restaurant at 330 Healdsburg Ave. said they hoped to...

Healdsburg Fire Season, Summer Weather Preview

It's about that time of year in Healdsburg when we all start bracing for fire season. We've been lucky these past few years to avoid some of the more massive, destructive wildfires that tore through local hills, valleys and towns during the summers of...

Another Healdsburg Tasting Room Opens Riverside

Some wineries launch tasting rooms with an avalanche of press releases and a big, flashy ribbon-cutting moment. Others — like Palmer Emmitt and Michael Scorsone — take a more casual *build it, they will come* approach. This local winemaker duo quietly opened their new outpost at 52...

Healdsburg’s Historic Simi Winery Might Get New Owners Soon

The San Francisco Chronicle made a bold prediction early last month: “This will be the year of California winery closures.” Here in Healdsburg, from where I’m sitting, the 2025 wine-industry shakeup has looked more like a Great Reshuffling — aka, wine bosses selling off certain properties or reshaping their...

Public life goes dark

One month ago, all of Sonoma County’s “public life” was put off limits. No schools, locked parks, barricaded beaches, no dining out or casual shopping trips. Gathering places where conversations and friendships get shared are taboo. Libraries, coffee shops, brewpubs, art galleries and any space smaller than six feet square, are now officially declared uninhabitable.

Healdsburg Pic of the Day: Holiday Window Art

Healdsburg resident Barbara Wollner just took this pic of some uplifting new window art at the Digital XPress print shop at 401 Center St., right next to the old Raven film center. She says it was painted by Santa Rosa artist Terrence Howell.

Farmworkers celebrate ‘huge victory’ for labor rights in Healdsburg plaza

One of the North Bay’s largest vineyard management companies, Geyserville-based Redwood Empire, has been forced to shell out $33,548 in lost wages to seven farmworkers after state ag regulators found evidence that Redwood bosses “manipulated internal hiring procedures to exclude workers who participated” in a giant rally and...

City of Healdsburg Is Good at Building Housing, State Says

In the eyes of our state governor, Healdsburg city leaders have been doing a great job planning and approving the construction of more housing here in town. Gov. Newson blessed our city with his official "Prohousing" designation last week, along with Petaluma and Eureka...

Black Sports Journalist Felt Profiled at Healdsburg Boutique

Top sports journalist and personality Marc Spears says he felt racially profiled for being Black on a recent visit to the ANTHEM home boutique on the Healdsburg plaza, at the corner of Center and Matheson streets. ANTHEM is a chain with five locations across the Bay...
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