In Memoriam: Sylvia Seventy, Artist and Teacher
Another one-of-a-kind Healdsburg resident passed away earlier this month from cancer at age 77, according to the Press Democrat: local textile artist and art teacher Sylvia Seventy. The fascinating, multimedia, Pomo-inspired “vessels” she made (pictured above and below) became quite well-known in certain circles of...
Watch: Healdsburg Hanukkah Dancers
The Press Democrat posted some lively footage of the Hanukkah celebration outside the shuttered Oakville Grocery store at the corner of the plaza last week. "Rabbi Mendel Wolvovsky of Santa Rosa’s Sonoma County Chabad Jewish Center lit a giant menorah and danced with the crowds who came out,"...
Restaurant gives life to historic building
El Milagro incorporates family recipes, fresh food
Ketcham Winery Selling Lavish Healdsburg Estate House
The private Ketcham Estate winery out Eastside Road, located just past the railroad bridge overpass at the intersection of Eastside and Old Redwood Highway, may soon lose its “estate” aspect, as the Ketcham family is now looking for a buyer for their $3.5 million property....
Montagne Russe Tasting Room Moving From Healdsburg to Petaluma
The Bacchus Landing wine-tasting collective on Westside Road, next to the animal shelter, has been adding new wineries right and left lately — but one of its original and most beloved tenants, the Montagne Russe tasting room and record shop, has decided to pack...
Bill Foley Shuts Down ‘Wine Society’ in Healdsburg
Annnd another one bites the dust. This time, it’s the exclusive Center Street wine club belonging to Bill Foley, insurance billionaire and local hospitality magnate. It was called “The Society: Healdsburg,” and it just opened last November where his Banshee Wines tasting room used to be. (Banshee...
Winter Wineland Event Reaches 30th Year
One of the longest-running winery events in Sonoma County is set to resume this weekend, Saturday and Sunday, Jan. 14-15. It will be the 30th anniversary of Winter Wineland, one of four major weekend tasting events from Wine Road, a Northern Sonoma County destination...
The Parish Cafe is under new ownership, but the eatery’s recipes and concept won’t change
Correction: The Parish will serve lunch and breakfast, not lunch and dinner.
In Memoriam: Charlotte ‘Shally’ Schultz
Healdsburg retiree Charlotte Schultz, who went by Shally, has passed away at age 81. After working for decades as a public-school teacher in SoCal, she and her husband Wally moved to Healdsburg in 2006, according to her obituary. Shally was a big volunteer, reading...
Little Saint, restaurant and arts gathering place, finally set to open this summer in old SHED building
Little Saint, a plant-based restaurant and cafe, wine shop and arts gathering space, is set to open later this summer in the former 10,000 square foot SHED property on West North Street.
Arts & Entertainment
Things to do in Healdsburg, Nov. 12-20
Saturday, Nov. 14: The best of this year’s Healdsburg International Short Film Festival, composed of the Audience Favorites from the HISFF in September. Two blocks (or “volumes” as they are called here) of films in three screening times, Vol. 1 at 1:30pm and 7:30pm, Vol. 2 at 4:30pm. Tickets for each show ...


















