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Last year’s girls basketball team from Healdsburg, the Lady Hounds, were a force to be reckoned with, amassing a 24-5 record overall and dominating the North Bay Redwood League with an 11-1 record. They took that success three games deep into the Division 4 playoffs,...

There’s more than one high school in Healdsburg. As well as the public Healdsburg High School, three miles up Bailache Road south of town is the Rio Lindo Adventist Academy, a private boarding school for grades 9-12. The total enrollment is only 108, on...

An alumni student and an alumni parent have been filling in the coaching duties with the current Healdsburg Girls Tennis Team. And the girls couldn’t ask for better training. Vikram Johnson, alumni of Healdsburg High (2021) and for four years the #1 boys tennis singles...

Any game that begins with the opposing team scoring two touchdowns without running an offensive play is not off to a good start. That’s what happened Friday night at Rec Park, as the visiting Fortuna Huskies scored twice on turnovers—an interception and a fumble—to...

The atmosphere was electric as a rosy Friday afternoon turned into Friday night at Rec Park, where the Healdsburg Greyhounds hosted the Eagles of Berean Christian, a Walnut Creek private school. The Hounds, winless over the past two years, were in the hunt for...

The Healdsburg High School athletics program is midway through its first normal autumn in several years. A total of 149 students are participating in the season’s sports, from a football team of 43 to a girls’ golf squad of five to a cheer team...

In some ways, Healdsburg High and Sonoma Valley have similar football programs—new coaches, young rosters, each coming off disappointing seasons. And going into the Sept. 8 game, both were winless this year. In Sonoma last Friday, however, it was the host Dragons who earned their...

“We have a great team,” said Mary Beth Chandler, head coach of the Healdsburg High School varsity girls tennis team. She points not only to the winning record so far this season but the energy her players bring to their game. Those players include Isabel...

The Healdsburg High School fall sports calendar is filling up with games, matches and sets in five sports—boys football, co-ed cross country, and girls golf, tennis and volleyball. Football The first football game on Sept. 1 found the Hounds on the short end of a 56-27...

The Healdsburg High School varsity football team is ready to turn the page. The team, which hasn’t won a league game since 2017, is preparing for the 2023 season with dogged determination under new head coach Randy Parmeter. Long associated with the program at El...