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“Peter & Albert, Sept. 14” reads the marquee at the Raven Theater. And while the names are familiar, their conjunction is not. Dig a little deeper and it begins to make sense. That’s Peter Asher of Peter and Gordon. Although Albert Lee only rarely...

The music festival that put Healdsburg on the jazz map begins this weekend, starting with a Juneteenth Celebration in the Plaza on Saturday, June 17, and ending nine days later on June 25 with another celebration, this one an immersion in the brassy, rhythmic...

Another one-of-a-kind Healdsburg resident passed away earlier this month from cancer at age 77, according to the Press Democrat: local textile artist and art teacher Sylvia Seventy. The fascinating, multimedia, Pomo-inspired “vessels” she made (pictured above and below) became quite well-known in certain circles of...

The 3rd annual Healdsburg Wine & Food Experience begins on Thursday, May 16, but that's not the only thing going on in Healdsburg Happenings this week. More music, meetings, farmers markets and a Fire & Safety Expo in Cloverdale...

Then there's this: A scooter near the Memorial Beach Veterinary Hospital on Healdsburg Avenue was stopped for speeding. The driver was cited for driving on a suspended license, violating probation, lacking proof of insurance and driving without a license. More Police News ...

The Healdsburg High girls soccer team continues to play well, both at home and on the road, giving their opponents reason to fear meeting the Greyhounds on the pitch. To put it bluntly, they haven’t lost a match yet, though their 11-0-2 record can’t be called perfect. It is, however, impressive...

Nearly a dozen people followed one another to the speaker’s podium at last week’s City Council meeting, many of them teens from local schools or the Girl Scouts. All of them agreed on one thing: It was time for Healdsburg to have a Magical Bridge Playground.

Audiences headed for a performance of the Raven Players’ production of Cinderella who are expecting anything along the lines of a Disney musical are in for a bit of a surprise, says drama critic Harry Duke...

The City Council’s informal decision on Dec. 16 to adopt a five-district, selected mayor format for city government in the redistricting process drew immediate reactions from several community members, who felt the decision was made unnecessarily quickly and short-circuited public discussion of the options. Here are a few of their comments:

That big clock is finally ticking for the train’s arrival in Healdsburg—it’s no longer only a memory or a pipe dream. Last week brought the news that the Sonoma-Marin Area Rail Transit (SMART) District had been awarded an $81 million grant from the state to extend the rail service from its current terminus, at the Sonoma County Airport, though Windsor to Healdsburg’s northern city limit by 2028—including construction of a new or remodeled rail bridge over the Russian River.