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Marching bands, fire engines, pickup trucks and flatbeds—along with colorful dancing troupes and campaigning politicians—will march through town on Thursday to kick off the 75th anniversary of the Healdsburg Future Farmers Country Fair, or HFFCF...

7:47pm Arson occurred on University Avenue at Powell Avenue. A woman tried to light signs on fire with a lighter, but the signs did not ignite because they were plastic. A second RP indicated that the woman was talking to herself. Officers responded and arrested a 49-YO woman for aggravated arson. She was transported to county jail...

A special five-hour meeting time was blocked out for the Healdsburg City Council on Monday night this week to allow plenty of time for council review, and public comment, on a proposed two-year budget for the city. It even started an hour early, at 5pm, in the usual meeting room at City Hall. But barely an hour and a half passed before Mayor David Hagele gaveled the meeting over, at 6:35pm...

P:olice are still looking for a 29-year-old man suspected of slashing tires at the Community Center and possibly stabbing someone... This and other reports from local Police listed every week in the Tribune.

Last Thursday afternoon, the Healdsburg Peace Project reappeared in its traditional spot on Healdsburg Avenue at the bus stop on the Plaza, across from Hotel Healdsburg. The participants carried flags, banners and signs, all with a common message in favor of peace over conflict, a...

A public hearing on a series of proposed water and wastewater rate hikes was expected to produce outrage and objections from residents and rate-payers, but a groundswell of opposition did not materialize. Only about half a dozen people offered their public comments. And while most were opposed to the rate hikes, there were no viable alternatives presented.

Eight Northern Sonoma County seventh-grade girls will soon be off to college. No, they’re not highly precocious teenagers skipping out on their secondary school education. They are academically curious kids headed to Sonoma State University for Tech Trek, a unique, weeklong summer camp for girls eager to learn more about their favorite subjects—science, engineering, math and technology, known as STEM. 

In any normal housing market when interest rates are so high, one would expect the market to be strongly in favor of buyers with properties struggling to sell, but that is not the case. For example, houses on Marian Lane, Sunnyside Dr. and Chiquita Rd. all sold this year and all got five offers. Inventory levels, still hovering around three months, also point to a sellers’ market. ...

The May 6 council meeting generates instant feedback, with readers commenting on the Growth Management Ordinance and new water rates...

Yosemite Valley is known to many. But few know there was, and is, a second valley of extraordinary beauty in Yosemite National Park. It’s called the Valley of the Hetch Hetchy...