Snapshot: Pruning Prepares the Vines
Sonoma County's vineyard workers clip 100 million canes per year, bringing forth spring's bud break, summer's veraison, and fall's harvest, and German POWs worked in the vineyards and orchards during the 1940s.
Healdsburg Library to Close For Extensive Remodel
The Sonoma County Library branch in Healdsburg is receiving a thorough facelift in the coming year, with upgrades including new carpet, furniture, paint, and shelving, and the addition of windows to the exterior of the building.
Police Log, Dec. 25 – 31, 2023
Monday, Dec. 25
12:36pm The Reporting Party (RP) on Brown Street indicated that her partner pushed her. Officers responded and arrested a 39-year-old (YO) man for inflicting injury on a partner, false imprisonment and kidnapping. He was taken to county jail. An emergency protective order...
Police Log, Dec. 18-24
Monday, Dec. 18
9:01am Petty theft occurred at The Taste Of Tea on North St. The Reporting Party (RP) emailed the Healdsburg Police Department (HPD) regarding a man with a dog stealing the Arlo camera from the back of the business on December 12, 2023...
Fast Food, Health Care Workers to Get a Raise in 2024
By Levi Sumagaysay and Shreya Agrawal
Californians in two industries are set to get new minimum wages this year, and that could lead to pay bumps for other workers, too.
Gov. Gavin Newsom last year signed two union-backed bills that will boost fast-food and health care...
What To Do With the Christmas Tree?
The packages are opened, the wrapping is recycled and the out-of-town family has departed—now what to do with that tree?
There is no Recology home-pickup service on Christmas or New Year’s day, both Mondays, so service will be delayed by one day during those weeks....
Police Log, Dec. 11-17, 2023
Monday, Dec. 11
7:47am Grand theft occurred on University Avenue. The Reporting Party (RP) stated his truck was moved two houses from where he parked it on Dec. 10, 2023. Tools valued at $3,000 were taken from inside the truck. A detective responded and took...
Bird’s Wings Clipped in Bankruptcy Filing
Bird Global, the electric scooter and bike company that provides transportation vehicles by the hour in Healdsburg, Windsor and more than 300 other cities, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on December 20th, but the company is still providing its services in Healdsburg and other communities.
Hagele Elected Mayor, Mitchell Vice Mayor for 2024
David Hagele and Evelyn Mitchell were unanimously approved as mayor and vice mayor of Healdsburg for 2024, to follow the year-long term of Mayor Ariel Kelley.
Prune Packers Take the Ball and Run
The world of summer community baseball was hit by a screwball this week, as the Healdsburg Prune Packers—perhaps the most successful of such teams in Northern California—announced its divorce from the California Collegiate League (CCL) and the formation of a new confederation of teams,...

















