Duck Dash and Kids’ Parade on July 4 in downtown Plaza
On Fourth of July, the Rotary Club of Healdsburg Sunrise and the City of Healdsburg are bringing both rubber duckies and families to the Healdsburg Plaza for the second annual combined Duck Dash and Kids’ Parade. The festivities will run from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., with the parade beginning at 11 a.m. in the plaza. Admission is free and comes with family activities and games, prizes and live music from the Russian River Ramblers and Jimbo the Clown.
Pile driving begins soon at bridge
Steel shells more than 100 feet long to be driven into riverbed
Swimming pools a challenge in drought
Healdsburg does not allow pools to be filled with local drinking water
Cries of the Earth, germs of racism
We have been living in a global village and sharing the same orbiting planet much longer than social scientists have been reminding us, or the first photos from outer space of our fragile blue-green marble confirmed.
A hollow gesture
The Sonoma County Board of Supervisors took the easy way out last week, cynically agreeing unanimously to require everyone connected to the county – except themselves – to comply with a living wage increase. Requiring county contractors and grant recipients to raise wages to $15 an hour was a fine thing to do, but exempting the county itself was disappointing, and turned the whole affair into an exercise in self-aggrandizement.
New public art installed in Geyserville and Cloverdale
A new crop of sculptures for the “101 Sculpture Trail” arrived for installation in May, bringing the communities original art pieces from sculptors mainly based in Northern California. The sculptures will remain on display through May of next year. Nineteen new sculptures were installed in Cloverdale and Geyserville, said Joyce Mann, manager of the Sculpture Trail.
Program for at-risk youth expanding to Healdsburg
Program aims to increase high school graduation rates
Looking for a ‘spark’ with new social networking app
When Eric Watson and his team at Spectafy Labs decided to launch a social networking app, they chose four unique locations – Times Square in New York, Disney World in Florida, Haight-Ashbury in San Francisco ... and Healdsburg.
Healdsburg residents joining social network for neighborhoods
‘Nextdoor’ endorsed by county sheriff’s department














