Healdsburg Police and Sheriff Logs: Feb. 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.
The Sonoma County roots of Women’s History Month
March is Women's History Month — a national event with local beginnings
The life expectancy gap: Healdsburg highest, Russian River lowest
The Russian River area has the lowest life expectancy rate of anywhere in Sonoma County while Healdsburg residents tend to live the longest, according to a new Summary Measures of Health report released by the Sonoma County health department.
Healdsburg native still having fun at 103
Josephine Camour was born on a ranch near Asti in 1914, the daughter of an Italian immigrant mother who ended up owning her own ranch and being one of the first people in the county to make wine after Prohibition.
Fun, food and fungi among the forest floor
Winter is here with its clear night skies, and luminescent stars forming imaginary figures we call constellations dot the darkness overhead. The vineyards are an amalgamation of fiery colors of every hue imaginable with a backdrop of the golden hillsides interspersed with redwood, fir and oak trees.
2018 Sonoma County homeless count launches Friday
Over 150 volunteers to assist with countywide census
Santa Rosa Symphony Young People’s Chamber Orchestra, Mar. 1
CPAC welcomes back for their fourth appearance this young string orchestra, a winner of the statewide annual Berkeley Junior Bach Festival. Working without a conductor this student ensemble delights with their level of musicianship and attentive collaboration with one another. Special guest will be Lewis Patzner, classically trained cellist with a growing reputation as an innovative cross-over musician and composer. Performance lasts an hour with no intermission.
City council to ponder design guidelines, hotel limits
The Healdsburg City Council will tackle two broad topics at its next meeting, to be held on Tuesday, Feb. 20 at 6 p.m. at Healdsburg City Hall on Grove Street (moved from the usual Monday meeting due to the President’s day holiday).
Arts & Entertainment
Dia de Muertos lives on in Healdsburg
At Dia de Muertos—Healdsburg’s most colorful event of the year, recognized Sunday, Oct. 25 at the Plaza—Sonoma County residents showed up to remember loved ones with celebration, costumes, mementos, music and marigolds. It was the tenth local anniversary for the Mesoamerican celebration to honor the recently departed, or those who still live in memory. With a Gallery of images...
