Buying the Farm
All sorts of barnyard proverbs and euphemisms could be used to explain the current taxpayers’ dilemma. Not to beat a dead horse, but we’ve repeatedly warned about too many tax increases and bond measures on the next ballot. We don’t want to sound like Chicken Little and claim that the sky is falling, but decades of runaway pension costs are finally coming home to roost. Somebody left the barn door open and all that is left in our taxpayers’ barnyard is a pile of cow pies and horse biscuits.
How are you celebrating the Fourth? Let us know!
Since Kaboom! isn't happening this year, we want to know — how will you be celebrating Independence Day?
Chanukah celebration
CHAG SAMEACH — The Sonoma County Chabad Jewish Center hosted a menorah lighting in Healdsburg on Sunday night, Dec. 29. The lighting marked the last night of Hannukah. Rabbi Mendel Wolvovsky (left) led candle-holding attendees in Hannukah prayer as he lit Chabad’s large, traveling menorah.
Healdsburg, Reach for Home awarded Homekey grant for interim housing site at L&M Motel
The City of Healdsburg in collaboration with Reach for Home has been awarded over $7 million in Project Homekey Round 2 grant funds for the establishment of a 22-unit interim housing site for Healdsburg’s chronically homeless at the L&M Motel on Healdsburg Avenue.
IDlewood 3: Welcoming in 2022
Wishing all Healdsburgers a happy and healthy 2022. The recent rain, followed by sunshine has a few, early blades of mustard grass already popping up. In case you didn’t know, “IDlewood 3” (433) was the town’s original telephone exchange and now “Hedda Healdsburg” wants to know all! Please send your newsy items to me in care of The Healdsburg Tribune.
Former Visitors’ Center for Rent
The two-story Mediterranean-style cottage at 217 Healdsburg Ave., which for years served as the public walk-in presence of the Chamber of Commerce, is for rent. Though small—it’s less than 700 square feet, 347 on the ground floor—its location could not be better for the right customer: Next door to the H2Hotel and a block’s walk from the Plaza...
Pine Crest campus up for grabs: Charter school, Twin Hills both bidding for vacant site
About 100 parents and community members descended on the Nov. 10 Sebastopol Union Schools District (SUSD) board of trustees meeting after learning of SUSD's negotiations with the Twin Hills Union School District to possibly lease the site of Pine Crest Elementary to SunRidge Charter School.










