BurtoNZ Bakery products hitting Geyserville
Bobbi and Warren Burton have been pumping out baked goods at their local shop BurtoNZ Bakery in Windsor for more than five years. Their products have been tasted throughout the area in towns such as Cloverdale and Healdsburg and can be found in places like Amy’s Wicked Slush and Shelton’s Natural Food Market.
Commentary: Life Long Learning
In the Fall of 2002, I enrolled in a course titled "Greed and Corruption in Corporate America" through the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Sonoma State University. We had recently moved to Sonoma County after I retired from practicing Pediatric Dentistry for 40-plus years in the Bay Area. The Enron scandal had just unfolded, and I wanted to better understand how capitalism works in this country and broaden my horizons in general. The course and the OLLi program changed my life. I have not looked back.
Rising seas, worsening wildfires endanger California parks
Of all the existential threats California parks face — dwindling budgets, more visitors and costly, long-deferred maintenance — now comes a climate-driven conundrum: When is a park no longer a park? When its namesake trees disappear in a barrage of lightning strikes? When its very land is washed away by ever-rising seas?
Large tree in plaza comes down in this week’s storm
A large Scarlet Oak, one of a group of three such trees, toppled over in a storm Monday night in the Healdsburg Plaza. The tree reportedly fell around 1 a.m. although social media posts on Facebook suggest 11 p.m.
Fire hits home at Healdsburg Hospital
Hospital workers who mobilized during the fires, now need help themselves
This Week in H’burg… …Sturgeon Moon
August 11th’s supermoon was the last of 2022. August supermoons are also called Sturgeon Moons, from a Native American tradition recognizing August as the month for catching these large fish in the Great Lakes, Lake Champlain and the Hudson River. This rising moon was...
Healdsburg High School students demand higher teacher pay
Healdsburg High School students walked out of their classrooms at 10 a.m. on Feb. 19 and marched down to the Plaza demanding better teacher pay for teachers in the Healdsburg Unified School District. The march was led by HHS freshman class president, Jackson Boaz, who led the crowd to the junior high school, the Plaza and around the roundabout.
Police Log, Jan. 27 – Feb. 2
A wall of Fitch Mountain slid onto the county road just beyond Villa Chanticleer during the recent storms. The county Public Infrastructure Department has already put out an RFP for North Fitch Mountain Road storm damage repair, contract No. C11601. Deadline for bid submissions is March 4...














