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April 16, 2026

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,"...

Preserve to Serve Again

This article was contributed by Kary Hess. When it comes to the bountiful Sonoma County harvest, the abundance can be too much to eat all at once. People end up throwing out even their home-grown garden produce. But there is a way to keep all that...

State Assembly Race Heats Up in Healdsburg

The race to take Healdsburg politician Jim Wood's second district seat in the California State Assembly, which covers large swaths of rural NorCal, has been seriously heating up in recent weeks. The seat will be up for grabs in November, because Wood has decided...

Annual Wee-Hour Pilgrimage Wakes Up Healdsburg Neighbors

If you heard a bit of a racket in the streets of downtown Healdsburg in the wee hours yesterday morning, it may have been the annual "peregrinación en honor de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe," or pilgrimage for Our Lady of Guadalupe. The march, complete with a full...

Sponsored post — Dining for Life Sonoma County

Sponsored post — On Thursday, December 3, 2020 Food For Thought hosts its 19thannual fundraising event inviting Sonoma County residents to “Dine In” by ordering takeout from local restaurants and to make a donation to Food For Thought, a nonprofit organization that provides healing food and nutrition to more than 1,400 people living with HIV, COVID-19 and other serious illnesses in Sonoma County.

Healdsburg Shops Close for ‘Day Without Immigrants’

Right in the middle of the storm on Monday, a national day of action against President Donald Trump’s calls to round up and deport undocumented immigrants was felt here in Healdsburg, where at least two businesses closed their doors for “A Day Without Immigrants.” Lola’s Market...

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...

Former Visitors’ Center for Rent

Building for lease
The two-story Mediterranean-style cottage at 217 Healdsburg Ave., which for years served as the public walk-in presence of the Chamber of Commerce, is for rent. Though small—it’s less than 700 square feet, 347 on the ground floor—its location could not be better for the right customer: Next door to the H2Hotel and a block’s walk from the Plaza...

Healdsburg Prune Packers Switch Leagues

The Healdsburg Prune Packers, our baseball team in the California Collegiate League (CCL), just announced they're ditching their old league and moving to a new one called the Pacific Empire League (PEL). And five other NorCal-based teams are reportedly coming with them: the Humboldt Crabs, the Lincoln Potters, the Medford...

Tait Danhausen Is Healdsburg High School’s New Principal

When school starts back up this fall for the kids at Healdsburg High School, they'll have a new principal: HHS alum Tait Danhausen. He'll be returning to his hometown from Tennessee, where he's been serving as a principal and administrator for a public charter...
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