Map Your Neighborhood looks ahead to a dangerous fire season
With wildfire season approaching during a drought year, Sonoma County residents have reason to feel a sense of dread. West county especially may have a sense of urgency after encountering the first major wildfire on this side of the valley last year with the Walbridge Fire and two straight years of evacuations — first during the Kincade Fire in 2019 and then during the Walbridge Fire in 2020.
Healdsburg’s Historic Simi Winery Might Get New Owners Soon
The San Francisco Chronicle made a bold prediction early last month: “This will be the year of California winery closures.” Here in Healdsburg, from where I’m sitting, the 2025 wine-industry shakeup has looked more like a Great Reshuffling — aka, wine bosses selling off certain properties or reshaping their...
Bridge to the Future at arts center completed
The Luther Burbank Memorial Foundation, the nonprofit that owns and operates Luther Burbank Center for the Arts (LBC), has completed its $11.4 million multi-phase Bridge to the Future renovation project, resulting in major physical upgrades to the 44-year-old facility and increases its accessibility, safety and security.
Foss Creek Pathway Wins Award from Bicycle Coalition
While the Great Redwood Trail continues to inch along toward its goal of linking San Francisco and Arcata with a 320-mile bike path, a more local project has earned a regional award as the best bike infrastructure project in the county.
The Foss Creek Pathway,...
Final Ballot Line-up Announced for City Council
The filing period for three Healdsburg City Council seats—one for a two-year term and two four-year terms—ended with the following candidates qualified for the ballot.
It shows an increase in diversity, notable in the three candidates for the two-year term: a woman, aBlack man and...
Sebastopol City Council to push for vitality, unhoused community services goals and more
The Sebastopol City Council will be in for multiple discussions relating to the city’s ongoing and future recovery and well-being in terms of its economy and vitality, its unhoused community, movement through its streets and more at the regular city council meeting
Healdsburg Farmers’ market will move to Plaza on Tuesdays
Compromise map accommodates merchant concerns over all-day street closure
New city app offers information, connection
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