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Two violins handpainted by gifted north county artists will be auctioned April 14 at “An Evening in Vienna,” a fundraising gala for the Santa Rosa Youth Orchestra’s European concert tour this summer.

State Senators Mike McGuire and Bill Dodd and Assemblymember Cecilia Aguiar-Curry will unite their respective Select Committees on Wine for a hearing in Sonoma County’s wine country to discuss wildfire recovery and receive a report on water supply issues.

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.

Hundreds of kids showed up at Fitch Mountain School Saturday morning for the annual Healdsburg Rotary-sponsored Easter Egg Hunt. The goodies were made possible by Rotary volunteers, plus 2,000 eggs donated by Big John’s Market. The Foss Creek after school program colored the eggs and Spoke Folk Cyclery donated three new bicycles for raffle prizes.

‘Beautiful piece of Americana’

New craft gin distiller goes to market next month

Parent company approved for direct public offer

Sonoma County’s Permit and Resource Management Department (PRMD) will host a workshop this week to offer information about a revised Onsite Wastewater Treatment System (OWTS) manual.

The Healdsburg City Council got an earful of good news last week, as an economic conditions report and a summary of the results of a community survey both indicated overall satisfaction with life in Healdsburg and economic success factors, even as the survey offered mixed reviews of hotels, tourism and the community’s direction.

What’s the difference between a violin and a fiddle? Nothing, really, except maybe an approach to playing it and the musical style. Fiddle is actually just a nickname for the violin, although any bowed string instrument can be called a fiddle (or so Wikipedia tells me). But most of the time, a fiddle is a violin. Just played in a different style.