Another Big Tasting Room Opening in Rural Healdsburg
Annnd the winery roulette wheel keeps spinning. About 10 minutes south of Arista Winery, which just closed its doors, a new tasting room in rural Healdsburg for Sonoma wine brand Auteur is opening next month at 10520 Wohler Rd, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. (That’s the...
Arista Winery Sells Healdsburg Tasting Room
The recent trend of local wineries reducing costs by selling off their prime Healdsburg properties — including Thumbprint, Ketcham, Truett Hurst and Comstock, off the top of my head — continues this winter with the McWilliams family’s Arista Winery and tasting room on Westside Road.
(Update, March 12: To clarify,...
Levin & Company Bookstore Owner Is ‘Gravely Ill’
If you’ve ever been inside Levin & Company, Healdsburg’s wonderfully creaky bookstore next to the bakery on the Center Street side of the plaza — basically the opposite of formula retail! — you’ve likely run into Aaron Rosewater, who co-owns the store with his mom, Adele...
Downtown Healdsburg Gets Drone Fireworks Show
At one point, the Healdsburg City Council was discussing the possibility of switching to drone fireworks for our town’s annual Fourth of July show, largely as a fire-safety measure. Judging by the city website, it looks like they decided to stick with the old-fashioned kind....
Healdsburg Mom Attacked Kids Who Fought Her Child: Police
A little over two weeks ago, on the night of Sunday, Feb. 23, local police say they got a report of a Healdsburg mom who “confronted a group of juveniles” at Healdsburg Avenue and Powell Avenue, near the 7-Eleven, “regarding a previous altercation involving the woman’s child...
Chain Stores Banned From Healdsburg Plaza
We’ve all been hearing about this proposal over the past year, but now it’s a done deal. Basically, the Healdsburg City Council took a final vote at their meeting last week on the proposed ban of “formula retail businesses” surrounding the plaza, and decided unanimously to...
Healdsburg Switches Up Animal Control Services
The Healdsburg animal shelter on Westside Road, run by the Humane Society of Sonoma County (HSSC), just chose a new partner for animal control — aka, the job of responding to the wilier, out-of-shelter situations involving animals wandering around town. For the past decade,...
Levi’s GranFondo, Local Bike Race, Now the Richest of Its Kind
A world-famous annual bike race called Levi’s GranFondo, which sends 1,500-plus hardcore cyclists racing down multiple routes in Windsor, Healdsburg and the surrounding countryside each spring, is set to return to our roads on Saturday, April 19. Actually, for its first 13 or so years of...
New Cal Fire Maps Show Increased Risk in Healdsburg
Last Monday, state fire officials updated a set of public “fire hazard severity zone” maps for our area that have reportedly been in place for more than 15 years. And a whole lot more Healdsburg land is showing up in the bright-orange and red zones this time...
Healdsburg Pics of the Week: Mardi Gras Throwback
Welcome to a special throwback edition of “Pics of the Week,” featuring — you guessed it — pics from last year’s big Mardi Gras party at the Mill Street shopping center. Gareth Owens, who co-owns The Parish — Healdsburg's only Cajun and Creole restaurant, situated...
