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Healdsburg Prune Packers Kick Off New Summer Baseball Season at Rec Park

June 5, 2024

Tonight is the big kickoff game at Rec Park for the Healdsburg Prune Packers' 2024 summer baseball season. Our town mayor will be throwing the first pitch, as is tradition. The Prune Packers are a century-old team playing in the California Collegiate League, which...

Police Log, May 20 – 26

June 5, 2024

Loud parties, fast drivers, stolen purses and more graffiti are catalogued in this issue's Police Log...

New Healdsburg Mexican Restaurant ‘Arandas’ Opening Soon at Hotel Les Mars

June 5, 2024

Big restaurant on North Street: Not even three months after shutting down the decade-old Chalkboard restaurant on the ground floor of Hotel Les Mars, billionaire Bill Foley is opening a new Mexican restaurant called Arandas in the space on June 17. Foley's local holdings...

Healdsburg Vegan Restaurant ‘Second Story’ Closing at Little Saint

June 5, 2024

Little Saint, the 10,000-square-foot food and event space at 25 North St., will be closing its fancy upstairs vegan restaurant on June 14 — just shy of one year after opening it. The offshoot restaurant is called Second Story, and it occupies the same...

Pepper’s Diner, the New Adel’s, Set to Open June 3

June 1, 2024

Update on the Pepper's restaurant about to open next to the Best Western Dry Creek Inn — aka, the second coming of Adel's diner. Restaurant manager Ali Haidar was rushing around all week in an effort to open today, but now he says he...

Healdsburg High Senior Faces on Banners Downtown

June 1, 2024

The City of Healdsburg is honoring this year's graduating class of Healdsburg High School seniors with banners of their faces hung around the downtown area. It's a tradition that started, I believe, as a response to the COVID lockdown that stifled some of the...

‘Edge Esmeralda’ Event Kicks Off in Healdsburg

June 1, 2024

Remember when I told you about the Edge Esmeralda "popup village," a monthlong festival for futuristic ideas coming to Healdsburg for all of June? Well, the start date is upon us: Programming officially starts tomorrow. The two young women at the head of the...

In Memoriam: Latisha “Tish” Vasquez

June 1, 2024

This is a heavy one. Healdsburg High graduate Latisha "Tish" Vasquez, who was born and raised in Cloverdale and Healdsburg but had been living in Oregon recently, just took her own life at age 26, according to family friend Brenda Norberg. She was "loved...

Healdsburg Oak Tree at Community Garden, 130 Years Old, Might Be Chopped Down

June 1, 2024

The ancient and beloved local oak tree that grounds a new Healdsburg community garden is at risk of being torn out by local government officials. It's a "spread valley" oak, at least 130 years old, at the "Lil Ag Equity Garden" run by local...

Riverkeeper Head Recalls Local Icon, Activist Marty Griffin

May 29, 2024

Environmental pioneer and Westside Road winemaker Dr. Martin Griffin died this week at his home in Belvedere, Marin County. He was 103 years old. One of his proteges, Don McEnhill of Russian Riverkeeper, tells of the impact Griffin had on his life.

School record-setting season for Greyhounds

Badminton team turns into a program

‘Gentlemen Hounds’ play the net

Home team winning big at Rec Park

‘Angels’ lands at Raven Performing Arts

Things to do in Healdsburg, May 14-21

‘Are you experienced?’ A 5-day sensory feast

From folk rock to Church Studios to Analog Reunion

School record-setting season for Greyhounds

Badminton team turns into a program

‘Gentlemen Hounds’ play the net

Home team winning big at Rec Park

‘Angels’ lands at Raven Performing Arts

Things to do in Healdsburg, May 14-21

‘Are you experienced?’ A 5-day sensory feast

From folk rock to Church Studios to Analog Reunion

Welcoming the SMART future to Healdsburg: Gallery

Police Log: April 27 – May 3

Letters: May, 2026

SMART invites all to ‘groundbreaking’ at Pavilion

Council talks fire, art, housing and goals

Healdsburg Prune Packers Kick Off New Summer Baseball Season at Rec Park

Police Log, May 20 – 26

New Healdsburg Mexican Restaurant ‘Arandas’ Opening Soon at Hotel Les Mars

Healdsburg Vegan Restaurant ‘Second Story’ Closing at Little Saint

Pepper’s Diner, the New Adel’s, Set to Open June 3

Healdsburg High Senior Faces on Banners Downtown

‘Edge Esmeralda’ Event Kicks Off in Healdsburg

In Memoriam: Latisha “Tish” Vasquez

Healdsburg Oak Tree at Community Garden, 130 Years Old, Might Be Chopped Down

Riverkeeper Head Recalls Local Icon, Activist Marty Griffin