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July 5, 2025

Healdsburg FFA Parade, Fair Coming Up

We must really be on the verge of summer, because coming up next weekend is Healdsburg's favorite tradition, celebrating its "diamond" 75th anniversary this year: the FFA parade through town and the fair afterward at Rec Park. It's an ag fiesta of the largest...

Healdsburg Fire Season, Summer Weather Preview

It's about that time of year in Healdsburg when we all start bracing for fire season. We've been lucky these past few years to avoid some of the more massive, destructive wildfires that tore through local hills, valleys and towns during the summers of...

Preliminary City Budget Presented for Suggestions, Revisions

City Council meeting, Healdsburg
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...

Police Log, April 29 – May 5

Police Station
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.

Vigil for Peace Returns to Healdsburg—Same Time, Same Bus Station

Peace protestors in Healdsburg
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...

Farmworker Protest Planned in Healdsburg Plaza

A farmworker protest is being planned in the plaza during the Healdsburg Wine & Food Experience's pinnacle event on Saturday: the "grand tasting" downtown. The demonstration is called "Power in the Plaza," and like last year, it's being organized by the local labor group...

Healdsburg Wine & Food Experience: Preview

It's that time of year again when around 2,000 winos and foodies pay thousands of dollars each to flock to our little town for the four-day Healdsburg Wine & Food Experience — a procession of fancy meals, tastings, parties and hangouts, starting next Thursday, May...

Healdsburg Cops Say Violent Tire-Slashing Suspect on the Loose

By now you've probably heard about the alleged parking-lot stabbing and tire-slashing spree at the Healdsburg Community Center that led to a three-hour police pursuit through town a couple of weeks ago, on the night of Tuesday, April 30. Local police have since named...

Car Crashes Into Fitch Mountain Home

There was a scary car accident Wednesday on Fitch Mountain, when someone driving a red Toyota Corolla careened off the right side of the road just before 5pm, smashing through a fence and into a house, according to the Press Democrat. Fortunately, the driver...

City’s Water Security an Issue in Utility Rate Increases

Public at Healdsburg City Council meeting
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.
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