City Council Race On the Fast Track
After a relatively quiet summer, the race for three seats on the Healdsburg City Council is picking up speed. Three candidate forums are scheduled for the next week, including a League of Women Voters online event on Wednesday night, and the second on the following Tuesday, a live-only event presented by the Healdsburg Chamber of Commerce...
Pachanga Brings Art to the Plaza
Residents who headed down to the Healdsburg Plaza on Sunday evening looking for Art After Dark, usually a diverse collection of visual and performance artists showing their skills, were surprised to find something quite different: an hours-long multicultural celebration of music and dance called...
Police Log, Sept. 2 – 8
2:52pm The RP at Syar Industries on Healdsburg Avenue indicated that a man went to the RP’s campsite and demanded property. When the RP did not give him a wheelbarrow, the man threw rocks at him. The RP was transferred to the Sheriff’s Office...
Asti to Get its Permanent Bridge
After over 100 years of pleading, begging, negotiating and complaining, the Cloverdale area finally got its wish: The bridge over the Russian River at the hamlet of Asti has been approved for a permanent span, thanks to final action by the County Board of Supervisors last week...
Revived Car Wash Coming to Healdsburg
As has long been rumored, Splash Express is coming to town, and representatives appeared before the Planning Commission on Sept. 10 to present their design review application for the new business, projected to open in as little as a year...
Drivers Asked to Turn Off Idling Cars
“Every time I go to Vineyard Plaza in Healdsburg I notice multiple parked vehicles with engines idling. I see people eating lunch, waiting for a pizza order, talking on the phone, listening to the radio while their car pollutes the air and makes noise,” wrote Steve Davy on Nextdoor. Some people have had enough...
Plethora of Evidence in Crashed Car
Early on the morning of Sept. 8, Healdsburg Police officers responded to the area of First and Piper streets following a report of a vehicle that had crashed and still had loud music still playing...
City Hit with Suit Over ‘Inclusionary Fees’
An independent nonprofit law firm generally associated with libertarian causes has filed suit against the City of Healdsburg on behalf of a client who believes the city’s “inclusionary fees” to support affordable housing are illegal...
Police Log Aug. 26 – Sept. 1
The RP at Healdsburg Gas Mart on Healdsburg Avenue indicated that a woman went into the store and asked the RP to have sex with her in the bathroom. She was with a man in a vehicle. Officers responded and arrested a 28-YO woman for being under the influence of a controlled substance, public intoxication and violating probation. She was transported to county jail.
2 Arrested for June Stabbing
Two 18-year-old Healdsburg residents were arrested on Aug. 23 for attempted murder in a stabbing incident earlier this summer near Foss Creek Pathway and Grant Street. One of them graduated in June from a local high school...
