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May 25, 2026

Healdsburg Year in Review: Schools

Every year, SoCoNews compiles a list of the year’s most noteworthy events, happenings and newsmakers and writes a comprehensive timeline that looks back at the year.

At the Fair, Feb. 14-17

The Cloverdale Citrus Fair couldn’t have been welcomed in with better weather last weekend. The fair, which was held from Feb. 14 to Feb. 17, celebrated its 128th year.

Police Log: March 9 – 15

Police cars downtown
Tuesday, 11:38pm The RP said she was followed by an unknown vehicle when she entered Healdsburg. She was advised to drive to the Healdsburg Police Department on Center Street. The other vehicle drove by the RP at the police department and turned around...

Looking back at 1906

106-year-old North County man recalls legendary

Council Sticks with 5-District, Rotating Mayor Decision

Raina Allan and Andrew Sturmfels
It was Assistant City Manager Andrew Sturmfels' last meeting in Healdsburg before he begins work for Sonoma County, but the same old City Council was on the dais to double-down on their controversial decision to set a 5-district limit for Healdsburg's new government....

Laguna Farm lives on despite closing CSA program and move from Cooper Road

Laguna Farm has ended its community-supported agriculture (CSA) program and farmstand on Cooper Road in Sebastopol, but the farm lives on, according to former co-owners Jennifer Branham and Ignacio Romero.

Commentary: Teaching for America

Last year, I was lucky enough to have been selected as Corp Member for Teach for America, a non-profit organization that places teachers in high need schools throughout the United States. My placement is in the Mississippi Delta, a region that has experienced long-standing high poverty, low graduation, and very poor college admission rates. Here, I have taught English to some wonderful students at Amanda Elzy High School in Greenwood, Mississippi. Unfortunately, many of these students are years behind grade level in a variety of subjects and often do not have the resources or opportunities that I was fortunate enough to receive in Healdsburg.

Watch where you step: rattlesnake season in Sonoma County

With the warm weather of summer, people like to get out and about in California famous natural environment, but in doing so we enter the territory of one misunderstood, but still dangerous, native species — the rattlesnake.

Easter Egg Hunt TO GO hasn’t even happened yet, but already it’s a smashing success

Sebastopol super-volunteer Elizabeth Smith, Jim Corbett from Peacetown, Kiwanis volunteers and five students from Analy’s Speech and Debate Team were out behind Toyworks Saturday assembling hundreds of bags of pre-filled eggs for local families to pick up and hide around their yard as a part of the second annual Sebastopol Family Easter Egg Hunt TO GO.

Local senior centers roll out programs to help seniors during COVID-19

Local senior centers are stepping up and rolling out several different programs to help ensure that seniors are getting access to fresh food, prescriptions and other necessities during the COVID-19 pandemic and the associated statewide shelter-in-place mandate.
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