From Healdsburg to Monterey — Bay Area’s jazz wave is spreading
The wave of jazz music that just washed over the North Bay during the 10 days of the Healdsburg Jazz Festival will continue to ascend and flow all summer throughout the San Francisco Bay Area, culminating, as it’s done every year since 1958 at the Monterey Jazz Festival, Sept. 16-18.
Scaly dilemma: is it a gopher snake or a rattlesnake?
Proper identification key to safety, for humans and snakes
Civic duty: working at a polling place can be an education
Elections are a busy time of year. Citizens work around their busy schedules to come in and vote or send out their vote by mail ballots, arguments break out between voters on various issues, and people have to educate themselves on different candidates and measures with a mix of advertisements in the mail, political platform websites and televised debates.
Pokémon fever inspires gamers to get up and go
Rena Charles and Angela Pustorino work at the Aerena Galleries in Healdsburg, but they also have something else in common: the thrill of the hunt.
Living a century: Fern Pagni says she only feels 40
Thursday June 21, Fern Pagni turns 100 years old. Born in Massachusetts and the second eldest of four, Pagni’s life has been driven by her dedication to family and helping others.
Businesses adopt survival tactics during downtown construction
To restless commuters, Healdsburg Avenue’s improvements promise an end to long backups at traffic lights. It is nearly impossible to work, live or travel into town without confronting the buildup of the single five-way intersection of Mill, Vine and Healdsburg Avenue. With construction starting last week, an upgrade to city infrastructure is past due.
