November Library News
This content is provided by Jon Haupt, Healdsburg Regional Library
It is always a pleasure to see our many visitors attending events at the Healdsburg Regional Library. Sometimes we need to make adjustments to meet the moment. Responding to cold weather, we brought our Not-So-Spooky...
Snapshot: Nighttime Harvest
This content is provided by Pierre Ratte.
That sound heard in the middle of the night? It might not have anything to do with Halloween ghosts or goblins, but rather with trucks and grape-harvesting machinery. It’s a bit spooky to have an 18-wheel tractor-trailer truck...
Flashbacks from Healdsburg
This column is provided by the Healdsburg Museum
100 years ago: Nov. 1, 1923
Grape Shipping Season Sets Record
A banner year for grape shipments and one of the best tomato seasons ever experienced, is the season’s record for the Healdsburg section on important autumn crops.
Approximately 7000...
City, SMART Workshop Reconsiders the Location of the Station
A more-than-full house at the Senior Center meeting room last Thursday evening brought excitement, and opinions, to a City of Healdsburg workshop with SMART on where to locate a rail transit station in town.
“We’re happy to have standing room only in here—we regard it...
Catching Up with Breathless
There’s an oasis in Healdsburg in an industrial park at the end of Moore Lane, past storage sheds and warehouses toward a dead end. Even though it’s not the kind of place people just happen upon, when they find it they’re not disappointed.
Breathless Sparkling...
Police Log, Oct. 9-16
Monday, Oct. 9
9:09am A reporting party (RP) indicated that one or two people were sleeping under a tarp at Max Process Equipment on Healdsburg Avenue. Officers responded, the subjects moved along.
9:14pm A caller reported a red Honda hatchback was driving at a high rate...
Embracing Autumn
This article was contributed by Isabella Cook.
Halloween is almost here, and it seems as though no one in the North Bay is holding back when adding to the community’s shared sense of seasonal excitement.
But fall isn’t only about proudly displaying a carved-up pumpkin on...
Preserve to Serve Again
This article was contributed by Kary Hess.
When it comes to the bountiful Sonoma County harvest, the abundance can be too much to eat all at once.
People end up throwing out even their home-grown garden produce. But there is a way to keep all that...
Snapshot: Halloween Scarecrows
'Snapshots' are contributed by Pierre Ratte.
Halloween celebrations and decorations are rooted in Celtic traditions around harvest time. Bonfires were lit and costumes were worn to ward off and confuse ghosts. Ghosts apparently would not recognize people in costume on the day they were allowed...
Chamber Spotlights Women in Business
Though a month late for American Business Women’s Day on Sept. 22, the Healdsburg Chamber of Commerce is making up for missed time with a “unique and empowering event” at Coyote Sonoma on Tuesday, Oct. 24.
The two-part program begins with a Women in Business...

















