City plans strategically
A year after initiating a strategic planning process, Healdsburg city councilmembers adopted their plan — the “Pathway to Sustainability” — last week.
Winegrowers hold first meeting of the decade
Volatile grape market to continue while growers and vintners strengthen their community leadership
Cloverdale welcomes its smallest schoolhouse library
Little Free Library launches at the corner of Kleiser Park
California rolled out websites and apps to fight COVID-19 — did they work?
During the COVID-19 pandemic earlier this year, Shira Shafir was trying to make vaccine appointments for some colleagues at UCLA.
Suspect in the rape of elderly victim in September charged in second rape case
The second woman was raped before the positive DNA identification from the first case came back from lab
Quarantined: A new law is disrupting California school reopenings
Heather Christiansen got an email on Aug. 14 from her son’s school, saying her 10-year-old had been in contact with a classmate who tested positive for COVID-19.
Healdsburg animal activity log, Dec. 30 – Jan. 5, 2020.
Incoming Animals.
Nothing to report.
Adopted animals
Dec. 30: Marigold, a female Chihuahua, was adopted.
Dec. 30: Slim Shady, a male black cat, was adopted.
Dec. 30: Earl, a male gray cat, was adopted.
Jan. 2: Jack the Cat, a male orange tabby cat, was adopted.
Reclaimed animals
Nothing to report.
CROWDS
Crowds can be powerful, dangerous, glorious, murderous. Think of the crowds in the streets of cities in the middle east in what has been called the Arab Spring, a spring that has blossomed in hope for justice and freedom, a spring that has also suffered the chill of brutal repression. Think of the crowds of the Occupy events around the US, citizens gathering in protest, in hope, in resentment, and sometimes in crazy violence.
Home on Fitch Mountain burned
A two-story Fitch Mountain house burned Friday in a blaze that
Arts & Entertainment
Stage face-off: Revenge vs. rivalry
Local audiences seeking a solid presentation of an American theatrical classic have two very diverse options right now. The Raven Performing Arts Theater hosts Stephen Sondheim’s massive macabre musical, "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street," while The 222 offers Sam Shepard’s more intimate fraternal drama, "True West." Both run in Healdsburg through Nov. 8.

















