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Healdsburg Prune Packers Kick Off New Summer Baseball Season at Rec Park

June 5, 2024

Tonight is the big kickoff game at Rec Park for the Healdsburg Prune Packers' 2024 summer baseball season. Our town mayor will be throwing the first pitch, as is tradition. The Prune Packers are a century-old team playing in the California Collegiate League, which...

June 5, 2024

Big restaurant on North Street: Not even three months after shutting down the decade-old Chalkboard restaurant on the ground floor of Hotel Les Mars, billionaire Bill Foley is opening a new Mexican restaurant called Arandas in the space on June 17. Foley's local holdings...

Healdsburg Vegan Restaurant ‘Second Story’ Closing at Little Saint

June 5, 2024

Little Saint, the 10,000-square-foot food and event space at 25 North St., will be closing its fancy upstairs vegan restaurant on June 14 — just shy of one year after opening it. The offshoot restaurant is called Second Story, and it occupies the same...

Pepper’s Diner, the New Adel’s, Set to Open June 3

June 1, 2024

Update on the Pepper's restaurant about to open next to the Best Western Dry Creek Inn — aka, the second coming of Adel's diner. Restaurant manager Ali Haidar was rushing around all week in an effort to open today, but now he says he...

Healdsburg High Senior Faces on Banners Downtown

June 1, 2024

The City of Healdsburg is honoring this year's graduating class of Healdsburg High School seniors with banners of their faces hung around the downtown area. It's a tradition that started, I believe, as a response to the COVID lockdown that stifled some of the...

‘Edge Esmeralda’ Event Kicks Off in Healdsburg

June 1, 2024

Remember when I told you about the Edge Esmeralda "popup village," a monthlong festival for futuristic ideas coming to Healdsburg for all of June? Well, the start date is upon us: Programming officially starts tomorrow. The two young women at the head of the...

In Memoriam: Latisha “Tish” Vasquez

June 1, 2024

This is a heavy one. Healdsburg High graduate Latisha "Tish" Vasquez, who was born and raised in Cloverdale and Healdsburg but had been living in Oregon recently, just took her own life at age 26, according to family friend Brenda Norberg. She was "loved...

Healdsburg Oak Tree at Community Garden, 130 Years Old, Might Be Chopped Down

June 1, 2024

The ancient and beloved local oak tree that grounds a new Healdsburg community garden is at risk of being torn out by local government officials. It's a "spread valley" oak, at least 130 years old, at the "Lil Ag Equity Garden" run by local...

$2M Healdsburg Property With Only Pool Goes Viral

May 28, 2024

A funny thing happened recently where a $2 million rural Healdsburg property with only a pool went semi-viral online. It all started when an X account called "Zillow Gone Wild" tweeted out a link to the 5-acre property on Chalk Hill Road, writing: "Everyone...

Two Big Healdsburg Wineries for Sale

May 28, 2024

Two big Healdsburg wineries are up for sale right now: the Comstock winery at 1290 Dry Creek Rd., that giant wine-tasting emporium you see on your left as you drive out of town, and the Quivira & LaFollette winery out further in the valley...

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Sports

Greyhounds Hand Vikings Back-to-Back Loses

April 16, 2025

Hopes are always high at the beginning of a baseball season, and when they are rewarded by a five-game winning streak midway through league play, hopes can soar. That’s the position the Healdsburg High varsity baseball team is in this week, having won 5 in a row and looking for more...

Celia Vallotton of the Healdsburg Greyhounds

Softball Team Wins Big, Lets Another Slip Away

April 16, 2025

Brandon Hausman playing tennis for Healdsburg

Tennis Boys Play On Through April

April 9, 2025