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Friends and family mourned the passing of Lee Torr IV during a memorial mass and burial at St. Catherine of Siena Catholic Church in Monte Rio last week.

Rialto Cinemas is celebrating its 20th anniversary with a big party at the theater in Sebastopol on Jan. 21.

Editor’s note: Because of the challenging and divisive nature of this story, and the legal barriers to certain information, this article has been constructed as much from observation as verifiable fact, because getting to first-person sources proved difficult. We will continue to follow the story on the realities, pitfalls and difficulties of dealing with “the homeless issue.”

Healdsburg High School and Marce Becerra Academy both have new and robust plans for student achievement. The plans include working on improving keyboarding and tech skills, utilizing benchmarking tests to track student progress and implementing a campus-wide focus on math.

Healdsburg has another hometown hero in the form of a star baker, Melissa Yanc. Yanc, who is the owner of Quail & Condor, was recently named the winner of the Food Network’s Holiday Baking Championship.

Goals include improving connectivity, working on climate change and exploring the possibility of cannabis sales

Services for Bob Klose, a veteran newspaper reporter and editor who firmly believed in journalism’s ability to connect local communities to the broader world, will be Saturday afternoon in Santa Rosa.

The following are excerpted from Healdsburg Police Department daily log entries

This report is courtesy of the Humane Society of Sonoma County’s Healdsburg Center for Animals and may not reflect all animal control activities in the Healdsburg community. For more information call 431-3386.

If more evidence is needed to prove how full Healdsburg’s community events and celebration calendar is, just look back at how many postponed gatherings and special events had to be cancelled or rescheduled in the days after the Oct. 23, 2019 Kincade Fire.