Local Business

If you’re anything like me, this recent surge of heat and wind has you spooked. And for good reason: Little brush fires have already started popping up in our area, like this one Sunday in the hills east of Santa Rosa. But there’s plenty we can...

Take 401 Piper St. It was a great product, so we priced it at the absolute top end of comparable properties and we found two buyers to bid up the price beyond expectations to sell it in a day. The buyers were out-of-town buyers looking for a retirement place—the perfect buyers.

Some people say they’re holding off on washing their car until LUV comes to town. A laudable sentiment, perhaps, but if the modern-day car wash on Healdsburg Avenue is what they’re waiting for, that day is upon us. Soon, anyway. The installation’s target date for...

We’ve all been hearing some pretty scary things over the past few weeks about important land-stewardship projects across California losing their federal funding and support — national park and forest maintenance, wildfire prevention programs and more. But there’s one ongoing environmental initiative with big implications for Healdsburg’s...

I don’t know a single person here in Sonoma County who doesn’t already have the Watch Duty app downloaded and poised to start spewing notifications, in case of wildfire. But most of my Los Angeles friends had never heard of it before Jan. 7,...

About five months after boutique Healdsburg wine brands Truett Hurst and VML went on the market, they found a buyer: the same man who founded them back in 2008. Phil Hurst sold his beloved brands to a large, Washington-based company called Precept Wine & Spirits...