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A weekend of art in Healdsburg and Geyserville begins tonight (Thursday) at the Paul Mahder Gallery, 222 Healdsburg Avenue. Originally planned as a harpsichord concert, after the harpsichord player had an illness in her family, local Celtic harpist Brendan Swift stepped in.

At the May 16 meeting of the Healdsburg Unified School District Board of Trustees the agenda is filled to the brim with end-of-the-year housekeeping items.

Tania Romanov Amochaev will speak and read from her new book this Wednesday, May 23 at 7 p.m. at the Healdsburg Regional Library.

Big event planned for retirement party

Tick season ramping up

This year Stephanie Hopkins is checking off a major life goal, not for herself, but for her late mother. She self-published a children’s book that her mother, Pam Carnation, wrote about her when she was a little girl. Carnation tried to get the book published in the 90s without success.

The Healdsburg Farmers’ Market Saturday market opened on May 5 and will run through the end of November. It is open 8:30 a.m. to noon every Saturday in the West Plaza Parking Lot (behind Bear Republic Brewing Company) at North and Vine Streets, one block west of the downtown plaza.

Sonoma County moves one step closer to selecting the next sheriff in the first contested election in more than two decades with absentee voting underway in the only countywide candidates race on the June 5 ballot.

Last year a group of Healdsburg citizens applied to the American Institute of Architects (AIA) for a Sustainable Design Assessment Team (SDAT) visit. An SDAT is an AIA program that was developed in 2005 to show communities how to use design to create a sustainable future.

State comes through with gap funding, now it’s up to the voters