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December 1, 2025

The City in Colors: Building Coalitions, Drawing Districts

Liz Stitt of Redistricting Partners speaks
As of Jan. 13, the DistrictR tool was live and functional, and anyone can draw up a city map of four, five or six districts, with the five-district model the only option for a rotating mayor, as Healdsburg has at present. Various tools are located in the upper right corner, as is common in such applications—a hand tool to move the map, a pen tool to select a district and color it, an eraser tool to fall back on. Residents have another three weeks to work with the mapping tool....

Dog About Town

Dear Editor, My name is Solito. I am a Healdsburg resident and a passionate reader of The Healdsburg Tribune. You may have seen me around town—I frequent the plaza, selected sidewalks, the bookstores and many of the cafes with outdoor seating. I could call myself...

Work Begins at L&M Village for the Unsheltered

On Sept. 1, the workers’ trucks finally started rolling into the parking lot at the former L&M Motel at 70 Healdsburg Ave., as crews started replacing walls, installing appliances and converting what were once the most affordable motel rooms in town into something else—a...

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...

Short Film Fest Returns with ‘Best Of’ Program

Still from film 'Angst'
Tthis isn’t just the “Best of” the 2024 festival, it includes films from the past 10 years of festivals. “Next week includes all winning films from the four festivals we have produced,” said Pamela Demorest, who co-founded the Festival with husband Kirk Demorest.

Test-Driving the World of Work

There’s yellow caution tape over the door and a dead body in the middle of the room. Her name is Sarah, according to the three younger-than-expected investigators, and she has been shot twice.  The investigators evaluate the location of the bullet shells and the gunshot...

Singing the Heart’s Song With Jendala

Laura Husch
Mark Themig, a close friend of Jen’s in recent years, was in a position to coordinate both city and community resources for the ceremony. “I think it was exactly what Jen would have wanted and enjoyed herself,” he said of the April afternoon gathering at Villa Chanticleer.

Independence Day Events for the Holiday

July 4 falls on a Tuesday this year, but that midweek date won’t greatly affect the way Healdsburg celebrates Independence Day. If anything, it gives the city and its residents more opportunities to turn Independence Day into something special. With one exception: There will not...

Harvest: A taste shared between coasts

Oysters on a plate with lemon
Oysters were a growth process for me. I’ve never been much for foods that require time to “learn to enjoy,” but summer parties on Nantucket often include bountiful trays of oysters and chilled shrimp, and nothing else. And if the evening stretches into a string of gatherings, there is often little else to eat. One night a friend laughed and said, “You’re really missing out on something delicious.”

Yale Whiffenpoofs to land on Raven stage Sunday

Yale Whiffenpoofs
The very name “Whiffenpoofs” is whimsical, but followers of the collegiate music space know that the repertoire and reputation of this Yale University a cappella group is anything but laughable. Sure there are old Yale drinking songs, certainly a bit of jazz-era energy, as well as more modern pop. But are they classical? And what exactly is a “whiffenpoof” anyway?
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Arts & Entertainment

The Klezmatics

Klezmatics return to Healdsburg for the Holidays

Topo, in Fiddler on the Roof, was a Klezmer musician, “schlepping his way from shtetl to shtetl… a distinctive image of pre-war Jewish life in the Ashkenazi communities of Eastern Europe,” according to worldmusic.net.