Healdsburg Pic of the Day: Ice Cream Flight
Lindsay Joelle took this pic a couple weeks ago of the "ice cream flight" option on the menu at Noble Folk. "How cool that you can get an ice cream flight out of cute lil mini scoops?!" she says. "The mint was the most natural mint...
Healdsburg’s New Fire Substation: Construction Update
Construction continues on a new, 4,162-square-foot "substation" for firefighters at the more rural north end of town. The concrete slab that will serve as a base for the main building was poured last week, the city says. Next, "the wall framing, truss installation, and roof sheathing...
Wildfire Left Toxins in Soil Outside Healdsburg: Study
A new study out of Stanford on the harmful toxins left behind by wildfires was partially based on soil samples from a nature preserve on Healdsburg's outskirts, in the Alexander Valley area, according to Nature Communications magazine. While smoke inhalation is a more immediate and well-known...
Sonoma County Crab Season On Hold
Our local Dungeness crab season is on hold again this year, "due to the risk of humpback whales and endangered sea turtles being caught in fishing equipment," the Eater SF food blog reports. State officials will do their next risk assessment on Dec. 21, but right now it's looking...
In Memoriam: Dennis Parrish
Friends of Redwood Auto Body owner Dennis Parrish say he passed away recently in his early 60s. Dennis has reportedly been running his "full service frame, body and paint shop" on Kennedy Lane for more than four decades. "We lost a local giant," says friend Daniel Stevens,...
Sports
Renamed Gym Opens for Wrestling
Grapplers of the North Coast Section met for the first time earlier this month in the remodeled former Frost Gym, soon to be officially christened Drew Esquivel Hall. This year’s wrestlers are for the most part, if not entirely, first- and second-year wrestlers, and coach Scott Weidemier is careful to give them the kind of exposure that will grow their skills and enthusiasm for the sport instead of frustrate them...
