City briefs: Gun shop regulations, north area open house, roundabout update
The Healdsburg Planning Commission met twice last week, once to approve two subdivisions and again to discuss firearms sales.
Firefighter of the year Mike Jacobs lives to give back
Reserve firefighter inspired by heroism on 9/11
Starting a garden to combat homelessness
Your Tiny Farm provides seeds and shelter while Reach for Home provides clients
Lower rainfall totals this year, but things still looking positive
Sonoma County still doing its part for water conservation, March rains helpful
Healdsburg Police and Sheriff Logs, Mar. 12-18
The following are excerpted from Healdsburg Police Department daily log entries and the log entries of the Sonoma County Sheriff's Department for the Healdsburg area.
Healdsburg Forever celebrates $160,000 in grants, honors Hafner
A rainy night didn’t deter nearly 200 donors and nonprofit leaders from gathering in Healdsburg at SHED to celebrate local philanthropy and to honor Mary Hafner for her steadfast leadership and support of the Healdsburg Forever Fund.
An annual tradition: The early morning St. Patrick’s Day parade in Healdsburg
A happy horde of pre-dawn revelers chased a solo bagpiper around the Healdsburg Plaza this St. Patrick's Day, March 17. And they called it a parade. In fact, it was the official 23rd annual B&B Lounge St. Patrick's Day Parade replete with a queen, horses, dogs, green-haired Rotarians, sleepy babies, boisterous imbibers, some of Healdsburg's finest and hundreds of less-refined emerald-clothed citizenry. Coffee appeared to be the favored drink on the chilly Saturday morning, but a few pints of Guinness and Irish whiskeys were shared as well. The revelers, as has become a mischievous custom, blared horns and whistles to wake and startle the wine country guests of the plaza-side Hotel Healdsburg, who were spied in their white robes from their balconies unsure of what the street mob below was up to. Happy St. Patrick's Day to all.
Council to discuss economy, roundabout, pensions, survey
The Healdsburg City Council, at two March 19 meetings, will hear a report of the progress of the infrastructure project at the south entrance to downtown, popularly known as the “roundabout project.”
SLIDESHOW: Students walk out in Healdsburg and across Sonoma County
At 10 a.m., students poured from classrooms and into protest mode in communities throughout Sonoma County to demand action to prevent gun violence and to remember the 17 high school students and teachers who lost their lives last month in Florida. This slideshow includes protests (and a few counterprotests) in Sebastopol, Windsor, Healdsburg, and Cloverdale.
Commentary: Consider the rest
When “people of color” are talked about in history and media, the predominant picture that’s imagined is a black person being kicked out of a restaurant or a Mexican person being detained for being here illegally.
