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Winter Shelter Shakeup for Healdsburg

December 18, 2023

The county's official list of "warming centers" for the homeless this season does not include St. Paul's Church on Matheson Street, which has historically served as Healdsburg's local shelter. Instead, the go-to will now be L&M Village — our new motel-turned-shelter at the south end of...

Annual Wee-Hour Pilgrimage Wakes Up Healdsburg Neighbors

December 14, 2023

If you heard a bit of a racket in the streets of downtown Healdsburg in the wee hours yesterday morning, it may have been the annual "peregrinación en honor de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe," or pilgrimage for Our Lady of Guadalupe. The march, complete with a full...

Corazón Healdsburg Gets Big Gift From Comcast

December 14, 2023

Comcast donated $45,000 to local nonprofit Corazón Healdsburg and handed out 100 laptops to families at a festive event, which also included a screening of the new Trolls Band Together movie.

Wildfire Left Toxins in Soil Outside Healdsburg: Study

December 13, 2023

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

December 12, 2023

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: Barry Steele

December 12, 2023

Well-known local businessman Barry Steele reportedly passed away last month. The former owner of the Fairview Inn & Suites at the south end of town "died unexpectedly" at age 81 "on the land he loved in Geyserville," his obituary says. More from the obit: "Barry 'Like...

In Memoriam: Dennis Parrish

December 12, 2023

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,...

In Memoriam: Marina Pace

December 12, 2023

Marina Pace, director of marketing for The 222 arts venue in town, passed away in late October from pancreatic cancer. She was in her late 60s. Marina was "a world traveler, talented artist, animal lover, and remarkable soul," her obituary says. She and her former...

Who Has the Cheapest Corkage Fees in Healdsburg?

December 12, 2023

There's an interesting piece in the latest issue of the Trib on the rising price of corkage fees for the BYOB experience at restaurants in town. SingleThread leads the pack at $150 per bottle. Agave is on the much lower end at $8 per bottle — and...

Immigrant Stories Coming to Healdsburg Wine Library

December 12, 2023

Did you know that there's a "wine library" housed inside the Healdsburg branch of the Sonoma County Library? And they just got a grant to "listen to and save the oral histories of immigrant families employed in our local wine industry," according to a rep for the wine...

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