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November 9, 2026

Holiday season at the Healdsburg Museum 

Daisy Mae and L'il Abner dolls
Visitors of all ages can make paper ornaments, take a ride on a wooden rocking elephant, play games like “Kerplunk” and “Operation,” and race Hot Wheels in the December exhibit at the Healdsburg Museum.

Group heads to Healdsburg to advocate for better working conditions for farmworkers

On Oct. 10, people from North Bay Jobs with Justice gathered at the Healdsburg Plaza to hold a Puesto Popular/Farmstand for Justice to raise awareness about their “5 for farmworkers in fires” campaign which calls for better working conditions and language justice for Sonoma County farmworkers.

Dance Studio Opening at Healdsburg Flower Farm

Dragonfly dance studio
A group in town called the Healdsburg Dance Collective, founded by four ex-pro dancers early last year, is finally opening their own physical space after a year-and-a-half of working with other fitness studios in town to offer classes, rehearsals and performances. And it sounds like a pretty idyllic...

Community briefs

Fireworks, all kinds, are illegal

The Rat Fairies are coming to Healdsburg

This year Stephanie Hopkins is checking off a major life goal, not for herself, but for her late mother. She self-published a children’s book that her mother, Pam Carnation, wrote about her when she was a little girl. Carnation tried to get the book published in the 90s without success.

2012 Year in Review

This week: Looking back — January to June

Council passes NEAP 4-1

Healdsburg City Council approved the North Entry Area Plan (NEAP) by a two 4-1 votes at its meeting May 20 at city hall.

‘We just loved one another’

Will Campbell, prophet, preacher, writer, civil rights activist, who always maintained a love/hate relationship with the church, recently passed away.  Although he called himself a “steeple drop-out”, he never tired of challenging pastors, “to minister to the hurt wherever you find it and live in hope even in the midst of tragedy.”  And after all his years of confrontation with injustice and racism, he still spoke of loving our enemies as our sisters and brothers because, “God loves them, and us, anyway.”  

Duct fire at SingleThread temporarily closes restaurant

A small duct fire that broke out on Friday night, Feb. 19, at SingleThread Farm-Restaurant-Inn on North Street has forced the restaurant to close for the time being in order to recoup and clean up from the blaze.
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Arts & Entertainment

Stage face-off: Revenge vs. rivalry

Local audiences seeking a solid presentation of an American theatrical classic have two very diverse options right now. The Raven Performing Arts Theater hosts Stephen Sondheim’s massive macabre musical, "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street," while The 222 offers Sam Shepard’s more intimate fraternal drama, "True West." Both run in Healdsburg through Nov. 8.