Assembly Race Finishes With a Flurry
Five of the candidates are Democrats, and one is Republican. The party registration in the five-county region is 51% Democratic, 22% Republican and 19% no party preference.
Little Saint Announces Imminent SingleThread Separation
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...
Local Family Feels Burned in Renaming of Gym
Anthony Frost, now of Cloverdale, posted, “I’m lost for words. H.C Frost was one of the founding board members of Healdsburg unified and donated much funds to build the first gym in Healdsburg. The Frost family has been in this town since the early 1800s,” he claimed.
The Parish Cafe is under new ownership, but the eatery’s recipes and concept won’t change
Correction: The Parish will serve lunch and breakfast, not lunch and dinner.
Influential landscape painter, Healdsburg figure, Wade Hoefer dies
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.
Downtown Hotel Given New Life by City Staff Review
The controversy surrounding Healdsburg’s downtown hotel ordinance, which restricted new construction to five rooms per block face and was passed late in 2018 by a 4-1 vote of the City Council, took a new and for many unwelcome turn last week.
On Thursday, Sept. 7,...
Police Log, Sept. 4
Monday, Sept. 4
12:53am Reckless driving occurred at St. Paul’s Rectory on Matheson Street. The Reporting Party (RP) stated he heard an argument outside, then someone got into a vehicle and drove recklessly around the neighborhood. An officer responded but the vehicle was unable to...
Police Log, Aug. 15-20
Tuesday, Aug. 15
1:51pm. A subcontractor was removed from a job site on Healdsburg Avenue but returned with four other males. When confronted, they claimed they were there to work. They were escorted off the premises again and later the reporting party (RP) noticed damage...
