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March 3, 2026

Local Greeting for the First Lady

Jill Biden, First Lady of the United States, arrived at Sonoma County Airport on Jan. 18 and was met by local officials and demonstrators, before heading to Healdsburg for a fundraiser and delivering a message of hope and determination.

Healdsburg Braces for New Year’s Storm

Last week, the National Weather Service issued a “coastal flood warning” for the entire Sonoma County coastal area—including Healdsburg. But a quieter-than-expected rain event over the weekend averted the dire warnings that the higher-than-normal tides would bring to coastal cities. This week, however, the weather...

Healdsburg High School Celebrates Grads

Graduates throwing hats in the air to celebrate
Under a sizzling June sun, parents, teachers, family and friends celebrated the 117 students of the Healdsburg High School graduating class of 2022. This is a class that not only has successfully completed years of schooling in order to move on to a new chapter,...

Harvest: Secrets of local gardens

Healdsburg's gardener Bob Buck
Healdsburg is full of food secrets. Someone knows who has the best mulberries (the word on the street is Preston and Millbrook Farms). Someone else swears by the broccoli at Noble Goat. There’s a bee person everyone keeps telling me I have to meet—and a seed guy, too.

The future comes to Cloverdale

Zuegel and Yarne of the Esmeralda Land Company
Devon Zuegel, founder and president of Esmeralda Land Company, and Michael Yarne, its director of development, stood before an often skeptical audience of close to 300 at the Cloverdale Veterans Memorial Building on Feb. 5 to explain, and defend once again, their ambitious plans for a “Chautauqua of the West” on former logging, Masonite and gravel mining property in Cloverdale.

Healdsburg joins in national No Kings protest

No KIngs protestor holding signs
It was a sunny Saturday last when up to 2,500 people lined Healdsburg Avenue between the freeway exit and the Mill Street Roundabout, chanting and chatting with one another about the common emergency everyone found themselves in.

Healdsburg grapples with the best

wrestlers start match
Under coach Scott Weidemier, the wrestlers of Healdsburg High—in all classes, both boys and girls—continue to “punch above their weight” in the competitive 11-team North Bay League.

108 ‘Tiny Desks’ Represent Student Lives Lost

“I wasn’t sure when we would ever finish, but it looks like we now have 108 desks, one for every student killed in a school shooting since 2018,” Linus Lancaster said on the as he and his art class revealed 108 small desks, each to commemorate a student life's lost to gun violence.

New bond election for SMART follows Windsor opening

Last to board the Windsor SMART train
On the same day a welcome party was thrown for the commuter rail service in Windsor, a voter-led group called 'the SMART Initiative" announced it was beginning a campaign to renew the quarter-cent sales tax that funds the Sonoma-Marin Area Rail Transit system “and secure the future of public transit in the North Bay,” according to a June 13 statement from the agency.

Healdsburg Happenings, Sept. 11 – 20

ALEBRIJES Whimsical carvings at a street market
It's time once again for the monthly ‘Tianguis’ open-air market, with food trucks, craft booths, live entertainment and the community gathered together. From 4-6pm Saturday at the City Hall parking lot at 401 Grove St.
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Arts & Entertainment

Cast of 'A Good Deal'

Romance about genetic disease is Ron Nash’s latest

The arts did not beckon when Ron Nash was a young man—far from it. “I was in trouble mentally in high school. I was angry, angry, angry,” he said. He even got kicked out of school, but his athletic ability—he was a hurdlers champion in track—earned him a scholarship to college.
Stage actors at the 222

Racial debate on The 222 stage

Christine Webster plays the blues

Turning music into magic