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The Valley Ford Volunteer Fire Department is rallying to raise funds for Healdsburg native Linda Becker’s battle against ovarian cancer. So far, the fire department has raised a combined total of around $27,000 through a GoFundMe campaign and a weekend hot dog dine and donate fundraiser.

The Healdsburg City Council will meet at city hall on Monday, Nov. 18. Here are the highlights from the agenda.

There are four candidates for two seats on the Healdsburg Unified School District Board of Trustees. The five-member board of trustees has direct oversight over the superintendent of schools and sets policy and approves budgets for school and facility programs. The Tribune sent an email questionnaire to all four candidates, and their responses are here, edited only for clarity.

Winemakers falling in love with untypical grapes

A Petaluma man, David Glen Ward, 52, was driving through west county in his own car in the early hours of Wednesday, Nov. 27, when he was mistaken for a carjacker and died after a struggle with Sonoma County sheriffs and Sebastopol police.

Due to mechanical issues with the Ives Pool filter system that prevent maintaining correct filtration flow requirements and proper pool temperature, Ives Pool will close temporarily starting Wednesday, Nov. 27. Closure will continue until repairs can be made.

Nearly a year after that frightening nighttime tire-slashing spree and stabbing in the Healdsburg Community Center parking lot, local police say they found their main suspect living under an alias in the small town of Los Gatos on the southwest edge of San Jose....

“In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart,” wrote Annelies Marie Frank as she hid with her family under Nazi rule. The Raven Performing Arts Theater’s production of “The Diary of Anne Frank” brings the story of this profoundly tragic, yet hopeful, tale to life with a new adaptation for contemporary audiences.

A Healdsburg resident was arrested on Sept. 3 for suspected sex crimes. Nelson Herrera Soriano, 28, was booked in jail on charges of communicating with a minor with the intent of committing a sex crime and possession and distribution of obscene material of a child under 14 years of age.

While several homes on Mill Creek Road and Wallace Creek could not be saved, some were, and Healdsburg Fire Marshal/Division Chief Linda Collister was determined Sunday afternoon to make sure the homes that fire crews worked so hard to save would not reignite from leftover hotspots or smoldering trees.