Sporks, tasers covered by Grand Jury report
Sonoma County’s 2009-2010 Grand Jury last week released one of
Burning Man Evolves
With gender fluidity, one wonders about “Burning Man.” Right? Burners gather 375 miles northeast of Healdsburg in Black Rock City, NV—an alkali desert plain called “the playa.” Burners have a sense of humor, for sure, but the playa also stems from its location on...
The City in Colors: Building Coalitions, Drawing Districts
As of Jan. 13, the DistrictR tool was live and functional, and anyone can draw up a city map of four, five or six districts, with the five-district model the only option for a rotating mayor, as Healdsburg has at present. Various tools are located in the upper right corner, as is common in such applications—a hand tool to move the map, a pen tool to select a district and color it, an eraser tool to fall back on. Residents have another three weeks to work with the mapping tool....
In Memoriam: Charlotte ‘Shally’ Schultz
Healdsburg retiree Charlotte Schultz, who went by Shally, has passed away at age 81. After working for decades as a public-school teacher in SoCal, she and her husband Wally moved to Healdsburg in 2006, according to her obituary. Shally was a big volunteer, reading...
Steelhead Festival welcoming the splash
Wild steelhead trout are splashing their way back up the Russian River to Lake Sonoma where the end to a long migration will again be celebrated by the Lake Sonoma Steelhead Festival.
Windsor shows off its SMART station
The official arrival of SMART to its new station in Windsor was met by well over 1000 residents, neighbors and on-stage engineers and politicians who helped bring Sonoma-Marin Area Rail Transit service to what is now its northern terminus, the Town of Windsor.
Kiff named interim executive director of Sonoma County Community Development Commission
Editor's note: The county press release announcing David Kiff's appointment to the interim CDC role incorrectly identified Kiff as the manager of a housing project that was developed for the city of Newport Beach. Kiff was the city manager for the city of Newport Beach during the development, not the project manager.
Turkey Trotters Run for Fun, Funds
Thanksgiving Day gets off to an early start in Healdsburg, and Nov. 23, 2023, was no different. Almost 3,000 participants registered for the fundraising Turkey Trot benefit, “plus lots of kids in strollers and dogs,” according to Susanne Esquivel. “The youngest Trotter was two...
Healdsburg’s Wonder League makes baseball for all
The grass is freshly cut and the lines have been drawn,













