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All felony grant theft charges against Amy Joy Covin, the owner of the popular Amy’s Wicked Slush eatery, have been dropped and the case has been dismissed, according to Sonoma County’s case database portal.

Parklets vs. Parking Why are the parklets still taking up 49 public parking spaces in downtown Healdsburg? The Covid Emergency is over. I drove through the Plaza today. The parklets look like hammered dung. And there was no parking for me. Has the City...

Rusty Hicks, chair of the California Democratic Party, is one of the strongest candidates in the upcoming primary election for Assembly District 2, but some members of the party are urging him to resign from his dual role due to a conflict of interest and neglect of duty.

The only movie theater between Santa Rosa and Ukiah, located in a classic cinema dating from 1950, has gone dark. The Clover Theater, located on East First Street in downtown Cloverdale, ceased showing films in mid-October, as owner Ryan Hecht announced in an email...

About five months after boutique Healdsburg wine brands Truett Hurst and VML went on the market, they found a buyer: the same man who founded them back in 2008. Phil Hurst sold his beloved brands to a large, Washington-based company called Precept Wine & Spirits...

A relatively modest proposal to build a 1,220-square-foot, 45-person tasting room inside an existing warehouse in downtown Healdsburg has ignited a familiar debate among residents about the town’s core character. This would be the 28th wine-tasting room in Healdsburg, city planning officials said at a...

Healdsburg public school classes started Wednesday, Aug. 17, almost a week later than those in Geyserville (Aug. 10) and Windsor (Aug. 11), but a day earlier than Cloverdale (Aug. 12). Regardless, by the time you read this your school-aged children should be in class. In...

Just  before 8am on Thursday morning, June 9, a fire broke out in an older home on Prince Street near downtown Healdsburg, which proved fatal to a resident and several pets. The house, built in 1910, a three-bedroom wood frame structure with a walk-up front...

Healdsburg’s new wine bar, Maison, opened its doors in early June and quickly established its place in the order of things in town. Situated at 210 Healdsburg Ave., just north of the roundabout, Maison is without signage, but an inviting hand-painted sandwich board beckons...

Amy Covin, who parlayed a life-long affection for Boston-style “slush”—a fruity ice confection with drizzles, sprinkles and playful attitude—into a Healdsburg dessert destination, announced over the weekend that she would be closing the flagship shop in early September. “I think we outgrew this facility the...