Open Mic: Surprise Raid in Kern County Foreshadows What’s to Come
The Border Patrol conducted unannounced raids throughout Bakersfield on Tuesday, Jan. 7, descending on businesses where day laborers and field workers gather. Agents in unmarked SUVs rounded up people in vans outside a Home Depot and gas station that serves a breakfast popular with field workers. "It was profiling; it was purely field workers,” said the manager of a local gas station.
Planning Commission Rebuffs New Piazza Hotel Plan
Piazza Hospitality, already the operators of three premiere hotels in downtown Healdsburg, made their case to build another to the city's Planning Commission Tuesday night.
Although their presentation was well-received and their previous works—at Hotel Healdsburg, H2H and Harmon Guest House—held up as positive examples...
Letters to the Editor, Feb. 29
"Sure miss the days when candidates were motivated to run to serve their communities and take the high road during the campaign, focusing on their backgrounds, experience and skill sets rather than trying to skewer their opponents. Those kinds of tactics do make it easier to decide who NOT to vote for …"
Hadley Rueter Heading to Culinary Nationals
Healdsburg High junior Hadley Rueter will travel to Atlanta in June to compete in the SkillsUSA National High School Culinary Competition. Rueter’s difficult journey included beating more than 70 competitors across the State of California to make the nationals. This will mark her second...
Taking Care of Business
El Farolito, the popular Mexican restaurant at 128 Plaza St., underwent an overnight name change recently to Gallina D’Oro, or the Hen of Gold. The new name partners well with El Gallo Negro, owner Pedro Diaz’s increasingly popular restaurant in Windsor. Hours, menu and...
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Mark West Creek Readies for Visitors
and riding destination, will be the latest to join the county’s Regional Parks system, 58 properties strong and counting.
Piazza’s New Hotel May Be Invalid Under City’s 2018 Ordinance
As Piazza Hospitality’s H4 project at 400 Healdsburg Ave. nears its next Planning Commission hearing sometime in August, questions have surfaced about the validity of their application to build the residential hotel they envision—16 rooms, 37 beds, mini-kitchens in most rooms and an on-site...
Healdsburg Has New Bike Sharing Program
It wasn’t that long ago that the City of Healdsburg welcomed a bike-sharing service to town called Zagster, in conjunction with the then-new Hotel Trio. Spiffy new bicycles could be checked out via a cell phone app, pedaled about town and returned to the...
