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Starting May 1 Sonoma County’s Roadside Chipper program is available to property owners in preparation for fire season. This free curbside chipper service supports residents in creating defensible space around their homes and reduces vegetation along access routes.

The Healdsburg Unified School District (HUSD) Board of Trustees has a busy agenda on tap for its next meeting on Wednesday, Nov. 17. The school board will swear in its new student trustee, Annie Petersen, and it will receive reports on the possibility of implementing ethnic studies throughout the HUSD and at Healdsburg High School.

Remember those cartoons during the Covid Era where people from the expiring year would look in terror around the corner at the arriving year, saying, “What now?” It’s sort of like that all over again, as so much has changed since January it doesn’t seem possible that there’s more to come.

The National Weather Service has issued a series of warnings for Sonoma County and the Bay Area, including a red flag warning, a wind advisory and a dangerous high surf warning.

Monday, March 6 8:52am. Two transients were reported sleeping in front of the Flying Goat on Center St. Officers responded and made contact with the subjects, who were advised to leave; subjects complied. The Reporting Party (RP) called back to say the subjects left property,...

Though there are areas for improvement, the general response to the brush fire on Fitch Mountain Aug. 20 was good, according to several involved.

One of Healdsburg’s fluffiest and most popular residents has reached a milestone birthday.

Facing the opioid crisis

Amy Joy Covin, the owner of Amy’s Wicked Slush, released a statement today in response to her Aug. 6 arrest for suspicion of felony grand theft.

As thick smoke poured across Sonoma and Napa counties, more than 300 residents of the northern Dry Creek Valley and its foothills rushed to evacuate, along with hundreds more lake and tasting-room visitors...