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To promote community wellbeing and a vibrant, resilient parks system, Sonoma County Regional Parks is creating a Climate Adaptation and Resilience Plan (CARP), and now seeks public input on future climate-related priorities and projects. The comprehensive plan will help the department address anticipated climate change...

Healdsburg’s downtown on Monday was the location of a crime scene investigation, upon the discovery of what police called “an unresponsive person” in a business parking lot half a block from the Plaza.  Although the investigation continues and no identification of the deceased has been...

After a cooler-than-normal June, the temperature leapt past the century mark on the first day of July, and Sonoma County families responded by heading to the latest Russian River beach to open—Veterans Memorial Beach in Healdsburg. “Saturday was our opening day, our grand opening,” said...

100 years ago – July 5, 1923 Organization of Kiwanis Club Is Completed Here About fifty business and professional men of Healdsburg attended a luncheon at the Plaza hotel today, when organization of the Healdsburg local of the Kiwanis Club was completed. The meeting was the...

A Ruse by Another Name? Some things are not for sale. Full-time residents of Healdsburg can see the “unapproved” and not “permitted” 330 Center St. ultra-luxury $12 million condos listed on MLS ( a site FOR real estate brokers) for what it really is!  We know this...

Firearms owners will soon be required to place trigger locks on guns in their homes, or store them in locked gun safes, to reduce the possibility that a loaded weapon can end up in the hands of someone not familiar with safe firearm handling—or...

Monday, June 5 11:09am. Disturbance on Greens Dr. Last week, the RP's (Reporting Party’s) husband was in an argument with a female "local homeless person." The female got into her vehicle, and she tried to ram into the RP's husband’s car with her car. RP...

The Senior Center threw open its doors earlier this month, literally, following the completion of a long-awaited project to improve access both from Matheson Street and the parking lot behind the building. New fully automatic sliding doors at the front and rear entrance allow...

The City of Healdsburg began accepting applications for cannabis businesses last week, including up to two retail cannabis businesses—dispensaries by another name—in a complicated multistep process that nonetheless is expected to attract 10 or more applicants.  It’s part of the city’s effort to join the...

It was an unusual sight on Matheson Street at St. John the Baptist Catholic Church one morning last week—Father Rafael Karekatt was dressed in his ceremonial finery, offering prayers and shaking holy water inside and all around a brand new Mercedes Sprinter ambulance, blessing...