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December 12, 2025

Healdsburg Happenings, Nov. 27 – Dec. 5

Runners at the starting line
Healdsburg's annual Turkey Trot got underway on schedule Thursday morning at 8am, as competitors raced though town for the Drew Esquivel Scholarship fund. The 2025 winners were Vincent Friesen (Castro Valley), Antony Cortes (Petaluma) and Kaeden Anderson (Healdsburg); top women's finisher was Rebecca Wheeler (8th place, San Francisco).

Snapshot: Seasonal Spirit in the Movies

Wishing everyone Happy Holidays, Happy Hanukkah, Merry Christmas and a joyous New Year—grateful for our blessings lest we take what we have for granted rather than count them each day. Here's some holiday movies that always make for a seasonal uplift.

Here Come the Holidays, Ready or Not!

Fun Runners do the Turkey Trot
The Healdsburg Chamber of Commerce is making a big deal about the holidays—like most chambers generally do. There are champagne soirees, wreath-making classes, a holiday hit records festival at Little Saint, the Merry Healdsburg tree-lighting in the Plaza and if one can wait long enough, a New Year’s Eve Celebration at Coyote Sonoma...

To Whom Goes the Golden Man? Oscar Favorites

Ralph Fiennes in 'Conclave,' nominated for several Oscars
Critic Jared Rasic writes, "Once again, I’ve divided my guesses into what should win vs. what will win, but with so many of the nominees this year coming from movies I genuinely enjoyed, I’ll be happy no matter who takes home the little bald man."

Flashbacks: HHS mural spans Healdsburg history

HHS mural
A recent thread on Facebook suggests that the large mural on the west side of Smith Robinson Gym might be painted over and that its history is lost. Principal Tait Danhousen and District Supervisor Chris Vanden Heuvel both say there are no plans to paint over or otherwise change this artwork at the Healdsburg High School campus. A quick search of Healdsburg Tribune archives discovered the following article, from February 1989.

Library to Close Aug. 25 for ‘Modernization’

Children's Library
The top-to-bottom modernization of the Healdsburg Regional Library will begin in September and last through spring 2025, the county’s library system has confirmed. But the library at 139 Piper St. will close to the public a week earlier, on Aug. 25, a week before the temporary 'mini-library' opens on Sept. 3...

‘Thanksgiving Trotters’ Raise $100,000

The 14th annual Turkey Trot got underway on a brisk but clear Thanksgiving morning, as more than 3,000 runners competed in what’s become known as the Live Like Drew challenge. It was a younger-than-normal crowd: Of the 2,679 who finished the 5k loop, half of the top 10 finishers were in their teens,...

Lady Greyhounds Sweep League Playoffs

The Lady Greyhounds defeated Rancho Cotate by a comfortable 12-point margin, giving them the right to hang the NCS-Redwood pennant in the Smith Robinson gym for the second year in a row.

Point Fire Torches Dry Creek Valley

Hillside on fire
As thick smoke poured across Sonoma and Napa counties, more than 300 residents of the northern Dry Creek Valley and its foothills rushed to evacuate, along with hundreds more lake and tasting-room visitors...

New Year’s Lights Shine on Local Stages

Stage show
here’s quite the variety of live theater from which to choose to warm our hearts and minds, and to escape the North Bay’s cold winter nights. Harry Duke points out a few shows worth seeing...
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Healdsburg Bar & Grill

Latest HB&G ‘refresh’ features Charlie Palmer recipes

Danya Richter, who has co-owned the Healdsburg Bar and Grill, has a new business partner, Steve Alkire, and a celebrity chef Charlie Palmer onboard to direct the kitchen.