Healdsburg on a roll toward being a more bike-friendly city
In November 2016 the city of Healdsburg installed three self-serve bicycle repair stations. They’re strategically placed in locations where bicyclists will be likely see and use them as they make their way through town; near the Bear Republic brew pub, just north of Healdsburg City Hall and by the entrance to Recreation Park. The stations were installed as a result of Healdsburg earning a Bronze Medal distinction of being a Bicycle Friendly city in 2014 from the League of America Bicyclists. To keep this distinction, the city needs to follow a list of suggested improvements, with the hope of improving the rating to silver, gold, or even platinum.
Salud! Free health fair in Healdsburg, April 14
A new multi-city health event series offers free wellness services to the north county during the month of April. Salud! is a series of health and wellness events, held in Cloverdale, Healdsburg and Windsor, which will feature free health screenings for vision, hearing, blood pressure, dental, dermatology and more.
Sonoma County Sheriff investigating Guerneville murder and stabbing
Sonoma County Sheriff detectives are currently investigating a murder and a separate but related stabbing incident that occurred in Guerneville on March 23.
As omicron sweeps Windsor schools, mitigation policy shifts towards ‘endemic’ phase
Over winter break, Pete Sullivan, the Windsor Unified School District’s director of COVID mitigation, was looking at nearly as many active cases in Windsor High School students as he’d seen the entire fall semester. Twenty-eight high schoolers had confirmed, positive cases in the last week of 2021, compared to a total of 31 cases between September and December, with the high being a week with 16 active cases at once last fall.
Police Log
Monday, May 8
8:23am. Officer-initiated activity at Wicked Slush, Healdsburg Ave., Healdsburg. A 25-year-old man was arrested for “assault with a deadly weapon“ and transported to Sonoma County Jail for an incident on May 7.
11:06am. Battery reported at Railroad Park on Front St. Reporting Party...
Recent Spectacles in Healdsburg Skies
Some pretty crazy stuff has been happening in the air over Healdsburg lately. Joe Kopczynski took the pic above just after 6am last Friday morning as he was heading toward Healdsburg from Geyserville, where he lives. It appears to show the rocket that Elon Musk’s SpaceX company reportedly launched that morning from...
Annual count shows decline in homeless population
The year 2020 in Sonoma County will be remembered more for the COVID-19 pandemic and series of wildfires, but it also was a year bookended by a persistent homeless crisis that will still exist into the new year of 2021.
Fourth of July no celebration for the family pet
“Every dog has its day,” but the Fourth of July isn’t one of
