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February 23, 2026

Healdsburg Happenings, Oct. 23 – 31

Dia de Muertos dancers in Healdsbyrg
Healdsburg’s annual celebration of Mexico’s All Saints Day is Sunday Oct. 26. Live music, food  vendors, a car show and a dance will demonstrate the culture of Dia de Muertos at the Healdsburg Plaza, from noon to 6pm. Note: the location may be changed depending on the weather.

JANE opens the door to high heaven

Owners open JANE Healdsburg
In this "web extra," we take readers inside the JANE Dispensary. It officially opened last week right next to the Coyote Sonoma, a tasting room for Wilson wines and live music venue (aka the “Coyote Den”).

Media Exec Reborn as Donkey Protector

The seasonal legend is that the carpenter went door to door in Bethlehem looking for lodging while his very pregnant young wife was carried by an ass. Thirty-three years later, that grown child rode a donkey into Jerusalem to culminate his ministry. Whatever one...

Inclusion means everyone at new playgrounds

Magic Bridge Playground, Mountain View, CA
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.

Valorizing Valette for its Wine

When one thinks of celebrations at The Matheson in downtown Healdsburg (the town’s de facto club room), one usually goes straight to the top, literally the top-floor Roof 106 brasserie and bar where all manner of shindigs have occurred over the years. However, this year’s release of Valette Wines, which shares a proprietor with The Matheson, was a decidedly ground-floor affair.

Healdsburg Chooses the Color of Peace

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...

‘Tour of the Vineyards’ Gets Pumped Up

Cyclists on Healdsburg back road
The annual Giro Vigneti, started in 1986 and formerly known as the Healdsburg Century, will return to Sonoma County’s Wine Country on Saturday, May 17. Registration is still open for this historic bicycle tour, starting and ending at Bacchus Landing...

‘Fugitive’ on the loose with high school pranks

Healdsburg High School sign
An incident reported on the evening of Sept. 5 by the Healdsburg Police Department in their weekly media bulletin may have been related to a game of “Fugitive,” played by high school students in the neighborhoods between the Community Center and Badger Park. “In short, students chase each other around town and ‘shoot’ each other with a variety of devices including Airsoft guns and Orbeez pellets,” wrote the Principal.

‘Formula Businesses’ Get a Hearing

'Vote Local' sign in Healdsburg
A formula store is defined in the General Plan as, “A business that is required by contractual or other arrangement to maintain any of the following: standardized services, menu, decor, uniforms, architecture, signs or other similar features and is not part of a locally- or regionally-based group of businesses...”

Healdsburg Teens Bring Algae Battery to Climate Fest

Among the 70-plus environmental information booths slated to line the Healdsburg Plaza for the town’s second annual Climate Fest on April 21, is one that might stink a little: Three teens from Healdsburg High School have plans to show off a large battery pack they made out of living algae.
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Arts & Entertainment

Stage actors at the 222

Racial debate on The 222 stage

Fair warning that this is the sort of play to which audience members will want to bring tissues. It is not a fluffy play by any means, forcing its audience to listen carefully and think deeply about difficult topics.
Christine Webster plays the blues

Turning music into magic