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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...

The board of directors of the Alliance Medical Center, the community-oriented health care clinic in Healdsburg, has appointed Sue Labbe as Chief Executive Officer (CEO).  “Sue is a highly experienced, passionate primary care leader who has been a leading force for Alliance over the past...

Walking around H’burg, specifically Veterans Memorial Beach Park, I happened to notice a little book on a picnic table. It’s not every day that one sees a book on Henry V left behind. Especially a children’s book describing a king from William Shakespeare’s 1599 play.  The...

While coworking spaces were certainly around before the pandemic, the number of  professionals working remotely or from home has increased dramatically over the past two and a half years.  This has led to a surge in the popularity of coworking spaces which prior to the...

The first City of Healdsburg fireworks show in three years took place Monday night, illuminating the high school neighborhoods with flashes of light and the pummeling of explosion.  But the patriotism of the evening was muted by law enforcement actions both before and after the...

A small local housing project, Healdsburg Riverhouse, stole the show at this year’s prestigious PCBC trade show (the Pacific Coast Builders Conference) at Moscone Center in San Francisco. The theme was “The Future of Home,” and on awards night on June 22, the Riverhouse...