Letters To The Editor

Leave the zoning alone

"I am an affordable housing advocate, but Measure O and its aftermath are riddled with issues. I see it as a huge, uncertain affordability experiment, not a plan..." So writes a long-time Healdsburg resident about the city's plan to create an exclusion zone from the Growth Management Ordinance...

The May 6 council meeting generates instant feedback, with readers commenting on the Growth Management Ordinance and new water rates...

Immense thanks

When our forefathers drafted the California Constitution in 1849, they included a requirement that “One or more grand juries shall be drawn and summoned at least once a year in each county.” Today, California is the last state still to have a comprehensive standing...

City’s Ordinance Problem Downtown Healdsburg may soon have another luxury hotel, thanks to an error by city staff in publishing notice of a 2018 ordinance that would have prohibited the hotel. Unfortunately, the error wasn’t a one-off.  The city’s 20 most recent ordinances—going back to April...

Wow, we really loved seeing old, lifetime Healdsburg people share their talents, especially Dana DiRicco and Lorraine Ham (94 years old) teach us, and young people too, how to properly make a pie crust—revealing all their secrets! And everyone was wide-eyed seeing a whole hive...