Briefs

It's that time of year again when around 2,000 winos and foodies pay thousands of dollars each to flock to our little town for the four-day Healdsburg Wine & Food Experience — a procession of fancy meals, tastings, parties and hangouts, starting next Thursday, May...

Burton Barnes, a local patriarch and ag enthusiast who also served in the U.S. Navy and then Air Force during the Korean War, passed away last month as well, at age 93. He leaves behind his wife Patricia, four kids and six grandkids, according...

This just happened last month, and it's even more relevant now: The Alliance Medical Center next to Healdsburg Hospital on University Avenue has installed a backup solar-power system that will allow the clinic to stay up and running during wildfires and other emergencies, even...

I'm seeing rave reviews all around from the St. Patrick's Day parade and street party that took over downtown Healdsburg on Sunday morning. Our local St. Paddy's tradition was started a few decades ago by the former owner of the bygone B&B dive bar...

We finally have an answer in the last remaining unsettled race from the primary election ballot we filled out earlier this month: the contest for Healdsburg politician Jim Wood's second-district seat in the California State Assembly, representing the state's entire North Coast. Although election...

A unique local school called the Odyssey Wine Academy, which for the past few years has been offering wine education classes here in Healdsburg, is now teaching classes in Spanish. Odyssey is reportedly the only place in Sonoma County where you can get your...

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...

There was a scary car accident Wednesday on Fitch Mountain, when someone driving a red Toyota Corolla careened off the right side of the road just before 5pm, smashing through a fence and into a house, according to the Press Democrat. Fortunately, the driver...

One of the public art projects funded by the city's first round of grants last year, a mashup sculpture called "Adopt-A-Stop" that fuses an old red bicycle frame with a stop sign, was installed in April and is now settling in along the Foss...

We’ve been getting all sorts of gifts from the sky in recent weeks. One big one came last Thursday night as the Northern Lights returned to the North Bay and a wave of aurora borealis flashed its pretty colors much further south than usual, in an encore from spring....