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The following are excerpted from Healdsburg Police Department daily log entries.

Stewart Wade, 103 years young, used a walker to get from the car to the stairs, but he climbed the six wooden stairs to the restored Daniels School with only a little assistance.

The county is shutting down the Recycle-town North location at the Healdsburg Transfer Station as of Oct. 31.

Take 401 Piper St. It was a great product, so we priced it at the absolute top end of comparable properties and we found two buyers to bid up the price beyond expectations to sell it in a day. The buyers were out-of-town buyers looking for a retirement place—the perfect buyers.

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On a recent visit to Jon Wright’s Feed Store for chicken feed, I noticed that Jon still has a poster of his customer Joe Montana in his #16 Jersey on the back wall next to the wood burning stove in his office. It brought back the memory of Nicholas Montana, a boy in my fourth grade classroom, who, while reading the book “Ishi: Last of his Tribe” and learning about California botany and the native buckeye tree, asked, “Ms. Kelley, are you talking about conkers?  It was what his grandfather called the nut of the buckeye, and in my mind I saw children throwing them at each other in the Mayacamas Mountains. That led to a parallel motion picture where I envisioned children of the Pomo or Wappo people, or Ishi from his Yahi tribe, also collecting and throwing buckeye nuts at each other, in their time and in this place we now call California.

Just before 8pm on Thursday, Oct. 5, Healdsburg Police Dispatch received a call about a possible attempted kidnapping of two 12-year-olds at Giorgi Park. Officers were dispatched and arrived within three minutes. Upon their arrival the officers were met by adult family members of the...