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Seven applicants for Healdsburg’s two allowed cannabis business licenses appeared in private interviews with city staff last Thursday, while an eighth appealed their disqualification in the application process. Late last month, the city’s cannabis team announced the results of the application process itself, with scores...

Little Saint, the ambitious all-vegan restaurant, market and event venue at 25 North St., dropped an early Christmas surprise last week when it was announced that the owners, Laurie and Jeff Ubben, will take over full management of business when Vertice Hospitality concludes its...

The colors of olives, moss, dry reeds, pillowy clouds, brown earth, slack water, dusty sunsets and dark amber fields are also colors of Healdsburg, where they are prominently displayed in the paintings of artist Wade Hoefer in local galleries, restaurants, private residences and hotel lobbies. His distinctive large canvases are people-less landscapes that are an unmistakable part of Healdsburg’s aesthetics, a wine country palette of his own dominion now shared in perpetuity with his adopted hometown. Hoefer died just over a week ago on Aug. 11 at a local hospital. He was 72.

The Border Patrol conducted unannounced raids throughout Bakersfield on Tuesday, Jan. 7, descending on businesses where day laborers and field workers gather. Agents in unmarked SUVs rounded up people in vans outside a Home Depot and gas station that serves a breakfast popular with field workers. "It was profiling; it was purely field workers,” said the manager of a local gas station.

Dear Editor: To exploit every single aspect of a small town is not to appreciate—it is to dishonor.  After fully participating in the Vertice LLC a.k.a. Single Thread “Farm” community input meeting (2/7/24) held in Healdsburg’s former movie theater, I remain committed to asking questions about...

The Town of Windsor was declared a winner in a national engineering awards competition for its own roundabout bisected by the SMART rail.

Students from West County High School (WCHS) have voiced their concerns over two plaques at the school they believe promote racism and xenophobia. An April 13 West Sonoma County High School District Board of Trustees meeting included an agenda item about the plaque removal request. Public comments focused on concerns regarding what the plaques may represent.

Correction: The Parish will serve lunch and breakfast, not lunch and dinner.

David Hagele and Evelyn Mitchell were unanimously approved as mayor and vice mayor of Healdsburg for 2024, to follow the year-long term of Mayor Ariel Kelley.

On Tuesday, Nov. 28, the city’s Planning Commission will meet to review the planned H4 Hotel at 400 Healdsburg Ave. for the third time, and developer Piazza Hospitality hopes the third time will be the charm. The hotel would be the fourth in Piazza’s group...