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An independent nonprofit law firm generally associated with libertarian causes has filed suit against the City of Healdsburg on behalf of a client who believes the city’s “inclusionary fees” to support affordable housing are illegal...

Police Log, Dec 4 – 10 Update: As reported previously, on Dec. 4 Healdsburg Police arrested 22-year-old Spencer Martin, of Healdsburg, for vandalizing 37 vehicles. His arrest was based on reports of vandalism in the high school neighborhoods. Since that time an additional 15 vehicles...

Last Saturday afternoon, two weeks after Charlottesville, one week after Boston, the same weekend that white nationalist groups planned to march in San Francisco and Berkeley, in 100-plus degree heat on the sun-soaked plaza, the residents of Healdsburg showed up.

Immense thanks

In every writer’s life comes a great editor, someone who tweaks your creative mess, and voila, you’ve got a great piece of writing. So I am in a quandary, writing about my best friend, my best editor, a writer extraordinaire, Susan Swartz, who lived with curiosity, energy, compassion, kindness, style, jokes and was just plain fun.

Monday, April 1 2:09am The Reporting Party (RP) indicated a possible drunk driver was near the 7-Eleven on Healdsburg Avenue. The RP observed the vehicle swerve prior to exiting Hwy 101 at Dry Creek Road and continue to swerve southbound on Healdsburg Avenue. An officer...

Wow, we really loved seeing old, lifetime Healdsburg people share their talents, especially Dana DiRicco and Lorraine Ham (94 years old) teach us, and young people too, how to properly make a pie crust—revealing all their secrets! And everyone was wide-eyed seeing a whole hive...

Effective June 3, we will require all our website visitors to log in with their email and password to read the newspaper online. Online-only subscriptions will be $5 a month.

Progressive Urgent Care Sebastopol broke its 20-month closure Friday, Nov. 12, opening its doors around the corner from Sonoma Specialty Hospital (SSH) on Palm Avenue. The facility previously located inside SSH closed when COVID-19 hit locally in March 2020.