Rockets to Fly at Healdsburg High
A six-year crusade to incorporate rocket science into the official school-day curriculum at Healdsburg High School, led by art teacher Linus Lancaster, culminated Feb. 22 with a lunchtime rocket launch.
Point Fire Torches Dry Creek Valley
As thick smoke poured across Sonoma and Napa counties, more than 300 residents of the northern Dry Creek Valley and its foothills rushed to evacuate, along with hundreds more lake and tasting-room visitors...
Healdsburg winery owner, car collector Ketcham dies at 65
Classic cars, family, good food and great wine.
The Ruse Pulls Its Appeal of City’s Denial
The owners of The Ruse, the luxury bed and breakfast formerly known as Honor Mansion, have withdrawn their appeal to the city council of the city’s denial of their proposed use for the three-acre property. The hearing had been anticipated to take place at...
‘Bubble Bar’ Brewing on North Street
There’s only one block between the popular corner restaurants on Center and North to the residential district that begins at East Street. But soon pedestrians will realize that the transition block is part of the Downtown Commercial zone after all.
A new wine bar and...
Cannabis Applicants Jane, Solful win Licenses
By Christian Kallen
It only took about half an hour for the Healdsburg City Council to make up their collective mind in choosing two out of eight applicants for cannabis business licenses in town. And, after a full year of process, eight months of application...
Planning Commission Rebuffs New Piazza Hotel Plan
Piazza Hospitality, already the operators of three premiere hotels in downtown Healdsburg, made their case to build another to the city's Planning Commission Tuesday night.
Although their presentation was well-received and their previous works—at Hotel Healdsburg, H2H and Harmon Guest House—held up as positive examples...
Hadley Rueter Heading to Culinary Nationals
Healdsburg High junior Hadley Rueter will travel to Atlanta in June to compete in the SkillsUSA National High School Culinary Competition. Rueter’s difficult journey included beating more than 70 competitors across the State of California to make the nationals. This will mark her second...
Healdsburg Has New Bike Sharing Program
It wasn’t that long ago that the City of Healdsburg welcomed a bike-sharing service to town called Zagster, in conjunction with the then-new Hotel Trio. Spiffy new bicycles could be checked out via a cell phone app, pedaled about town and returned to the...
