District facing uncertain financial outlook
As a result of COVID-19, HUSD is anticipating lower state and federal education dollars, drop in local property tax
Water Agency’s Davis appointed new state water resources chief
California Governor Jerry Brown has named Sonoma County Water Agency General Manager Grant Davis as the new director of the California Department of Water Resources (DWR). The appointment, which requires state Senate confirmation, means Davis takes over Aug. 1 as head of the state agency that oversees California’s water supplies.
Healdsburg Police Log, May 29-June 4
Monday, May 29
2:07am. Disturbance on Second St. Report of a male and female yelling at each other. Subjects are associated with a black BMW SUV. Officer responded. Subjects had gotten into a verbal argument with another male who had already left the area.
10:35am. Petty...
Cloverdale honoring veterans in outdoor ceremony
Cloverdale will have the standalone Veterans Day celebration in north county this year, with a ceremony that’s a departure from what local groups have hosted in previous years.
COVID-19 cases, new syndrome on the rise among children, especially Latino children
At least seven California children have died from COVID-19 since the pandemic began, more than 350,000 kids have tested positive for the virus and the number of youngsters diagnosed with a new, rare inflammatory syndrome continues to spread.
What time is it?
There are two looming events on our calendars that may further confirm the difference between compulsory law and bendable customs.
Snapshot: Hetch Hetchy Valley
Yosemite Valley is known to many. But few know there was, and is, a second valley of extraordinary beauty in Yosemite National Park. It’s called the Valley of the Hetch Hetchy...
Donald Lamarion Spence, 1962-2018
He went by a single name, “Spence,” and was equally singular in his focus on community and a very large circle of friends in his adopted hometown of Healdsburg. His full name was Donald Lamarion Spence and he died Dec. 13 after a long fight against lung cancer. He was 56. A large portion of his circle of friends held a candlelight memorial in the city’s Plaza last Friday, Dec. 14.















