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By Christian Kallen Candlelight illuminated the faces of some 75 people under the Plaza gazebo roof an hour after sundown on Saturday, Nov. 11. The human circle was not just present to enact the ritual of Havdalah, to begin a new week at the conclusion...

By Christian Kallen It only took about half an hour for the Healdsburg City Council to make up their collective mind in choosing two out of eight applicants for cannabis business licenses in town. And, after a full year of process, eight months of application...

The eight applicants in pursuit of two business licenses to operate a dispensary in Healdsburg will each state their case before the City Council, and the public, on Monday, Nov. 13. The meeting starts at 5pm in their chambers at 410 Grove St. The meeting...

Healdsburg’s annual Día de Muertos, which in the past few years has become a favorite community tradition, drew its largest crowd yet as up to 6,000 attendees took part in the vibrant and diverse afternoon event. Hosted by Corazón Healdsburg and the city of Healdsburg,...

A little-known country song of recent years begins with the words: “I shook the hand of the man who shook hands with the King.” It’s about being close enough to greatness to touch it—at least second hand. Roy Rogers has touched the hand of so...

At the first meeting of the Healdsburg City Council that followed the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas on Israel, several residents asked that the city use its bridge-illumination policy to turn the renovated bridge over the Russian River blue and white, the colors of...

Seven applicants for Healdsburg’s two allowed cannabis business licenses appeared in private interviews with city staff last Thursday, while an eighth appealed their disqualification in the application process. Late last month, the city’s cannabis team announced the results of the application process itself, with scores...

El Farolito, the popular Mexican restaurant at 128 Plaza St., underwent an overnight name change recently to Gallina D’Oro, or the Hen of Gold. The new name partners well with El Gallo Negro, owner Pedro Diaz’s increasingly popular restaurant in Windsor. Hours, menu and...

Even as the city prepares for Sunday’s Healdsburg Crush—a Plaza event to “taste limited production Pinot Noir and Sparkling Wines from over 60 of the top California wine producers”—the city council on Oct. 2 agreed to allow the much larger Healdsburg Food & Wine...

Occasional visitors to the Healdsburg Plaza may have been entertained during recent summer months by a casually dressed late-middle-aged man with a 12-string guitar, singing loudly from a swiveling office chair with a tip bowl in front of him. He is, by classic definition, a...