Bobcats, mountain lions sighted around Fitch Mountain
According to a number of posts on the social media page “What’s Happening Healdsburg” by several Fitch Mountain residents and neighbors, there have been several recent bobcat and mountain lion sightings throughout the area.
Veteran police dispatcher is a voice of calm in troubled times
When Colleen Simmons talks to you, you can immediately sense the focus that has served her so well in her long career as a dispatcher. She can simultaneously answer a reporter’s question, respond to a call on the radio and, while barely looking up, call out to a citizen in the Healdsburg Police Department lobby who is looking for the battery recycling container.
Mental wellness groups geared toward teens come to the library
This summer the Healdsburg Regional Library will offer a series of mental health classes for teenagers, thanks to an innovative partnership between the Sonoma County Library system and Social Advocates for Youth (SAY), a nonprofit offering mental health and housing services for youth.
City’s Public Art Grants Open for Applicants
As part of City of Healdsburg’s “efforts to foster and enhance our creative community,” it was announced last week that the city’s first Public Art Grant Program is looking for applicants. This program is one of the outcomes of the recently adopted Arts and...
Boys & Girls Club providing support as schools reopen
With schools across Sonoma County reopening after a yearlong closure, Boys & Girls Clubs of Sonoma-Marin is working alongside school districts to provide the necessary support to families in the new hybrid learning format, according a statement from the club.
Breaking ground on The Exchange, the Mill District’s affordable housing complex
Healdsburg city council members, investors, developers and Sonoma County officials gathered at the Mill District on Monday, July 19, for a groundbreaking ceremony for The Exchange, a 41-unit affordable housing development that’s part of the Mill District mixed-use project on Healdsburg Avenue.
Utility customers can get free trees
Get out your gardening trowel and green thumb, because the city of Healdsburg is giving away free saplings in celebration of Earth Day and as means to help reduce energy costs and absorb air pollutants like carbon dioxide.
Measure O Defeat Shows Split City
When the sound and the fury, the smoke and the flames dispersed, Measure O went down to a definitive defeat, roughly at a 60-40 split. Clearly this was not what the Healdsburg City Council intended when in June they rationalized themselves into putting it on the General Election ballot.
