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March 7, 2026

Bonjour From Paris! A Postcard From the Olympics

Lady Liberty in Paris
Most people have a dream. A dream for their future: A dream job, a dream house, a dream of who they will become or a dream trip of a lifetime. My husband, Louis, always dreamed of attending the Olympic Games—a dream made even more special when it was held in one of our favorite cities, Paris. The City of Lights...

5 Candidates for City Council’s 3 Seats

City Hall
In Healdsburg, five candidates filed for three four-year terms that will be on the ballot. They included the incumbents in those seats—Dave Hagele, to run for a third consecutive term; Ariel Kelley, to run to fill a second term; and Ron Edwards, who won a two-year term in 2022 and is running for a full four-year term this year. Two challengers also filed, Linda Cade and Heather Hannan-Kramer...

Taking climate action one step at a time

Members of anti-idling committee
The 24-inch-by-20-inch blue signs have popped up at a number of streetside locations around town: in front yards and shop driveways, at Rec Park and Bell’s Ambulance, even at the Big John’s intersection. They’re anti-idling signs, encouraging drivers to “Turn Your Key, Be Idle Free!”

Flashback: Aven Theatre opens in 1950, to become the Raven

Old Aven Theatre, Healdsburg
The new Aven theatre on North Street is nearing completion. Designed by Gale Santocono of San Francisco, the stucco and concrete block building is 73 by 130 feet, with a seating capacity of 738....

Mill Street Antiques Leaves the Building

There are now about a dozen dealers in the former plywood warehouse on Mill Street at the corner of Healdsburg Avenue, selling old clothes and hats, back issues of no-longer-published magazines, faded bird art, grain shovels, hand pumps, Hawaiian shirts and old radios, crockery...

Film: Brief and to the Point

Movie still of 'One Last Summer'
Formerly residents of Sebastopol, Pamela and Kirk Demorest moved to Nevada County last year to take care of family matters, but that hasn’t lessened their commitment to presenting the best Healdsburg Short Film Festival they can. It starts Friday, Sept. 27...

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...

Jazz Festival Returns to Healdsburg

Jazz singer
The City of Healdsburg began holding Juneteenth celebrations with the lifting of the Covid restrictions, and since then it’s also marked the kick-off of the Healdsburg Jazz Festival. The local nonprofit, which has brought world-class jazz to this Wine Country town since 1999, always...

Citrus Fair Has the Juice

Healdsburg has its Future Farmers Fair in May, Petaluma has the Sonoma-Marin Fair in June and Santa Rosa has the Sonoma County Fair in August. But for fans of Americana, the first one on the calendar, and perhaps the best, is the Cloverdale Citrus...

Farm + Market: Rhythms of the harvest

Pre-dawn harvest in Healdsburg's Alexander Valley
"This is my 20th year photographing harvest—since 2005—and I still love this time," writes Liza Gershman. "I’ve spent nights with vineyard crews lit only by headlamps and moonlight, capturing the exact moment the fruit leaves the vine. My favorite moment is when the deepest darkness turns into light and the sky opens up. I rarely see sunrise outside of harvest. There’s a reverence to it. A rhythm. A knowing..."
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Arts & Entertainment

Sally and David Hubbell

Fundraiser: Canapés for a cause

While the Paul Mahder Gallery has held fundraisers in the past, this one focused not on the well-to-do, but rather on those who do without.
Stage actors at the 222

Racial debate on The 222 stage