Healdsburg Restaurant ‘The Wurst’ Getting New Owners
Down at the The Wurst sausage and burger spot at 22 Matheson St., an ownership change is in the works. Longtime owners Melissa and Kevin McDowell are currently in the process of handing off the restaurant to Healdsburg couple David and Elise Baeli, who used to run...
$12 Million Apartments Slated for Center Street
The developers behind the Mayacama Terraces — two insanely fancy apartments planned for 330 Center St., in the empty lot between the Gold Bloom jewelry store and the Center for the Arts — have been releasing more details about the property in recent months. Its two second-story...
Hybrid Bicycle-Stop Sign Sculpture Complete on Foss Creek Pathway
One of the public art projects funded by the city's first round of grants last year, a mashup sculpture called "Adopt-A-Stop" that fuses an old red bicycle frame with a stop sign, was installed in April and is now settling in along the Foss...
Healdsburg Prune Packers Kick Off New Summer Baseball Season at Rec Park
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...
Fitch Mountain Trails, Villa Dog Park to Reopen in May
We have an end in sight, at last, for the renovation project that has kept the Fitch Mountain trails closed since last summer. The city is planning a big reopening party for the trail system and dog park next to the Villa Chanticleer on...
St. Patrick’s Day Parade in Healdsburg: Epic as Ever
I didn’t make it out to Healdsburg’s famous annual St. Patrick’s Day parade on Monday morning, a local tradition that reportedly goes back more than three decades, and boy have I been suffering from a bad bout of FOMO (fear of missing out) while reviewing the...
Help Shape Healdsburg’s New Wellness Center
The planning process will officially begin tonight for a new, "multicultural" wellness center here in Healdsburg. "We are thrilled to share the exciting news that we are beginning work with our partners for the development of a vision for a Community Wellness Center," local...
Healdsburg Police Arrest 3 Teen Boys After Alleged Pistol-Whipping
Local police officers had a couple of big days last week, as they tracked down three teenage boys suspected of attacking another 19-year-old male near East and Mill streets, just a couple blocks east of the roundabout, around 6pm on Tuesday, April 15. Cops...
‘Peace Pole’ Monument Unveiled at Healdsburg High
A student art project of sorts was just unveiled this week at Healdsburg High. It's called a "peace pole," and it's the latest of around 250,000 similar monuments that have been erected across the country, according to the Peace Pole Project website. Here's some...
Healdsburg’s Endangered Water Source May Have a Future Yet
For years, the possibility of PG&E officials tearing out the infrastructure they own that currently diverts water from the Eel River to the Russian River — which in turn fills the Lake Mendocino reservoir, Healdsburg’s main water source — has been looming over our community, along...










