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July is frequently a summer holiday month for civic workers, and Healdsburg has been no exception. But Monday, Aug. 1 will see the Healdsburg City Council return to city business as the four remaining members hold their first public meeting since June 21.  Although the...

When you’re young, downtown is where your life unfolds. It starts at 12 with the comic book shop, moves on to the record store and skateboarding, which is followed by clothes at the mall and finally literature at the bookstore, which is read and...

Farms around Healdsburg are in full swing. All eggs, herbs and vegetables from Farm to Fight Hunger are given away to local charities to address food insecurity with fresh, local, sustainably-raised produce and protein.  Last year, Bruce Mentzer’s and Anthony Solar’s farm donated nine tons...

Reportedly, 17 years ago this wall at Fitch and Powell was a blank concrete block wall.  Often it would be “tagged.” That is until somebody decided to do something about it.  That somebody was eight-year-old Haley Fincher. She and her friends took it upon themselves,...

The good news for homeowners: your house value went up. The bad news: your property taxes did too. Healdsburg’s red hot real estate market led the county, shooting up at more than twice the Sonoma County average, making property here more valuable and at the...

Rates for both water and wastewater services will rise, as reflected on the next City of Healdsburg utility bill, which residents should receive soon. While the cause is not directly related to the ongoing drought or persistent pandemic, there’s little doubt that the two emergencies...

In an effort to communicate more directly with residents, the City of Healdsburg has revived its occasional “Meeting with the City Manager” format, last held in 2019 when David Mickaelian had the job.  Jeff Kay, who has been in the position since early in 2021, held...

This may be the year Healdsburg joins the rest of California in the pot revolution—for the purposes of city revenue at least.  Currently, Healdsburg prohibits all commercial cannabis operations—making the city an outlier in an otherwise pot-friendly county. The city even banned medicinal marijuana dispensaries...

In response to evolving state law mandating local governments to protect the health of rivers, officials in Sonoma County are exploring new standards for how it issues permits for new wells. The county Board of Supervisors will hold a public hearing Aug. 9 on the...

Officials from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) will offer five free online one-hour information sessions this month, including one in Spanish. Four sessions, including one in Spanish, will discuss the process of becoming a U.S. citizen. One will cover the asylum process. The four naturalization...