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During the Healdsburg school board’s most recent board of trustees meeting on April 15, Healdsburg Unified School District (HUSD) Superintendent Chris Vanden Heuvel provided an update on distance learning in the district. The update outlined three main takeaways: Some students still do not have remote learning connectivity, grading practices at Healdsburg High School are still being nailed down and June is not looking good for seniors in terms of graduation and prom.

For the second time in a week, some late night or early morning pranksters dumped liquid soap in the Healdsburg Plaza fountain. As the center fountain sprinkler spread the soap, an overflowing cloud of white bubbles and foam billowed up and over the sides of rectangular, shallow fountain. By daylight on Sept. 20, passersby stopped to marvel at the mischief as city workers next arrived to disperse and dilute the non-caustic but unwanted suds.

Hopes to one day open coffee shop, transition center for homeless

Windsor Creek Elementary School opened a new third grade class

In the annual reorganization of the Healdsburg Unified School District (HUSD) Board of Trustees, board vice president Mike Potmesil was unanimously voted in as board president on Dec. 15 during the board’s regular meeting. Trustee Rose McAllister will serve as the board’s vice president.

The holiday boutique will return to St. Paul’s Episcopal Church Parish Hall on Nov. 20 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Despite an outpouring of support from local organizations

At the June 16 meeting on the Windsor Town Council, the seated council members passed three resolutions approving the budget for Fiscal Years (FY) 2021-22 and 2022-23, adopting the Capital Improvement Program (CIP) for Fiscal Years 2021-26 and adopting a resolution acknowledging receipt and use of the Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds from the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) of 2021.

Acting with unusual alacrity, City of Healdsburg staff whipped together a new city policy governing the sale and consumption of alcoholic beverages in movie theaters in the downtown area—preemptively approving a proposal from AVFilms, which has yet to come to terms on their downtown...

Kelsey Carreiro, the City of Healdsburg’s emergency manager, previewed a new evacuation zone map to the city council at their Monday meeting, May 1.  The update consolidated the previous 41 evacuation zones to a more manageable 13, and dispenses with the letter system formerly appended...