Open Mic: SMART Owes Public a Review of Railroad Bridge Plans
Healdsburg’s Russian River Railroad Bridge is the sole remaining example of a steel Subdivided Warren Truss bridge on the former line of the Northwestern Pacific Railroad. Built in 1901, the bridge has three spans supported by four concrete piers, a steel deck and superstructure on both sides of a single track. What does SMART plan to do with it?
City, SMART Workshop Reconsiders the Location of the Station
A more-than-full house at the Senior Center meeting room last Thursday evening brought excitement, and opinions, to a City of Healdsburg workshop with SMART on where to locate a rail transit station in town.
“We’re happy to have standing room only in here—we regard it...
Young children can receive COVID vaccines soon. Here’s what you need to know
California will begin vaccinating young children as soon as today, with the state expecting to receive more than a million doses of COVID-19 vaccine during the first week.
Denied: Ruse Developers Appeal Planning Commission
The Ruse, the planned three-acre recreation club at the site of the former Honor Mansion on Grove Street, has appealed to the Healdsburg City Council in hopes to overturn the planning commission’s denial of their permit.
The appeal was filed on Nov. 4, exactly 10...
Taking Care of Business
If all goes well, anyone coming north toward downtown Healdsburg will soon be greeted by a number of “Hometown Heroes” banners lining Healdsburg Avenue.
In partnership with local Rotary and the American Legion posts, the city will launch a program featuring local active duty military...
Four-member Council Reconvenes After Hiatus
July is frequently a summer holiday month for civic workers, and Healdsburg has been no exception. But Monday, Aug. 1 will see the Healdsburg City Council return to city business as the four remaining members hold their first public meeting since June 21.
Although the...
Council Openings Draw a Field of Hopefuls
The stage is set for Healdsburg’s Nov. 8 city council election to fill two four-year terms and a single two-year term. The winner of the shorter one will serve out the remainder of the term Skylaer Palacios won in 2020 and resigned from in...
New CEO selected at Healdsburg District Hospital
James Schuessler replacing the retiring Joe Harrington
Chicken Pot Pies Save Cloverdale Drive-In?
A former "food runner" for SingleThread on North Street, Healdsburg's fanciest and most decorated restaurant, is now running an increasingly popular chicken pot pie operation up at a "historic drive-in on Cloverdale’s main drag," the Press Democrat reports. Nicole Hinchliffe and her husband, who...
