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Imagine what Healdsburg might be like in 2035. On hot days, residents and businesses throughout the city of Healdsburg could be cooled by a stunning canopy of shade trees. Urban gardens, farms and vineyards would flourish with locally produced compost.  Children could safely ride bikes...

The long-time-coming city awards for local arts projects were finally distributed in June, resulting in 40% of the money going to a single public arts project along Foss Creek Parkway. Much smaller awards went to a variety of proposals designed to underwrite community arts...

In great sorrow, we announce the passing of Waffles, whose full name was Wea Willy Waffles Willner. Waffles passed on July 3rd, one day before his 19th birthday.  Waffles was well known throughout Windsor. In his younger years, he was known in the soccer community...

Songwriters in Paradise, a so-far barely-known, exclusive music and wine festival that is coming to Healdsburg for its second year, is a curated experience akin to having a backstage pass where one gets to know the inside stories and jokes.  It’s one of those “You...

To promote community wellbeing and a vibrant, resilient parks system, Sonoma County Regional Parks is creating a Climate Adaptation and Resilience Plan (CARP), and now seeks public input on future climate-related priorities and projects. The comprehensive plan will help the department address anticipated climate change...

Healdsburg’s downtown on Monday was the location of a crime scene investigation, upon the discovery of what police called “an unresponsive person” in a business parking lot half a block from the Plaza.  Although the investigation continues and no identification of the deceased has been...

After a cooler-than-normal June, the temperature leapt past the century mark on the first day of July, and Sonoma County families responded by heading to the latest Russian River beach to open—Veterans Memorial Beach in Healdsburg. “Saturday was our opening day, our grand opening,” said...

100 years ago – July 5, 1923 Organization of Kiwanis Club Is Completed Here About fifty business and professional men of Healdsburg attended a luncheon at the Plaza hotel today, when organization of the Healdsburg local of the Kiwanis Club was completed. The meeting was the...

A Ruse by Another Name? Some things are not for sale. Full-time residents of Healdsburg can see the “unapproved” and not “permitted” 330 Center St. ultra-luxury $12 million condos listed on MLS ( a site FOR real estate brokers) for what it really is!  We know this...

Firearms owners will soon be required to place trigger locks on guns in their homes, or store them in locked gun safes, to reduce the possibility that a loaded weapon can end up in the hands of someone not familiar with safe firearm handling—or...