Our new owners
Among other local news this week, we’d like to announce that the Healdsburg Tribune has new owners — more than two dozen in fact. Our new owners are community members and readers just like you. They are individuals and couples who have invested $1,000 to $20,000 with our Direct Public Offer that is funding Sonoma West Publishers’ new vision for quality community journalism.
Commentary: Garden revival project gratitude
When I first came to Healdsburg District Hospital in July of 2017, I saw a raised vegetable garden bed outside of the café that desperately needed love. Initially, I considered replacing some of the wood boards but the fixer-upper in me knew the whole structure needed to be rebuilt. It was overgrown with mint, a very prolific and stubborn herb, and low on soil.
Weekend of art events: Music, sculpture and chalk art
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.
End of year housekeeping, new year prep, on the agenda for HUSD
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.
Local author to speak at library Wednesday
Tania Romanov Amochaev will speak and read from her new book this Wednesday, May 23 at 7 p.m. at the Healdsburg Regional Library.
The Rat Fairies are coming to Healdsburg
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.
SLIDESHOW: Farmers’ market opens for the season
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.
Three vie for next county sheriff
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.
