Nutcracker ‘Orphanage’ Grows Every Year
One of the world’s largest collections of nutcracker dolls gazes down on breakfast diners at Healdsburg’s Costeaux French Bakery this time of year, promoting the holiday spirit at the 100-year-old bakery. From mid-November into mid-January, hundreds of the small wood effigies of spirits, tin...
Calendar: March 19-27
Humorist David Nihill returns to the Raven on Sunday, where last year he built a connection with the local audience as he developed his Irish-American act. Plus times, dates and addresses of other upcoming events...
Big Rigs, Centaurs, Spirits and a Marching Band
The 75th annual Twilight Parade went off without a hitch—a blaze of color and familiar faces flowing through town like a river of lights. Don’t forget the music—including a marching band....
Storm KOs tree, Power Line on Reed Court
It has been called a lot of things: the Pineapple Express, Atmospheric Rivers, a Cyclone Bomb and the Open Storm Door. Whether or not Healdsburg residents need to come up with their own name for it, there’s every indication the January Storms of ’22...
Esmeralda has eyes on Cloverdale resort site
For the past year, Devon Zuegel of Esmeralda Land Company has engaged in talks to purchase nearly 270 acres of land at the south end of sleepy Cloverdale, and to develop it into a new town, or neighborhood, to be called Esmeralda.
Trains and Boats and Automobiles, Oh My!
Steve Castelli, a model car enthusiast and drag racer, had a toy vehicle collection that was legendary; with the assistance of his daughter, Tina Castelli, the Healdsburg Museum assembled these mechanical wonders, "a tribute not only to Steve, but to forward motion itself.”
Corny fun on April Fools’ Day
The Healdsburg Senior Center teamed up with the Friends of the Healdsburg Senior Center and the Healdsburg Kiwanis Club to host a drive thru April Fools Corn Dog Party for seniors on April 1.
The Ruse fends off added conditions
The phrase “good neighbor” dominated the conversation like a motif in Mozart, with each side clearly on different sides of the definition. Team Ruse persistently argued their plans had been vetted by the state and national health organizations, and met local ordinances. For the appellants, however, being a good neighbor meant something different: outreach, compromise and keeping promises.
Home team winning big at Rec Park
The Healdsburg Greyhounds varsity baseball team continues to put up the numbers in its 2026 season, both in league games—they are 4-1—and overall with a 10-3 record. They only lost one game at home all year, an unfortunate 10-1 fail against Analy on March 25.
No ‘remote’ public comment
City Council votes against reinstatement
The Healdsburg City Council decided Tuesday night to continue limiting public comment to in-person and written submissions, declining to reinstate live remote participation via Zoom after a detailed review of legal, operational and security concerns.
“After a thorough and wide-ranging discussion,...
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Things to do in Healdsburg, April 30 – May 8
Healdsburg Community Nursery School celebrates its 60th anniversary with an on-site Makers Market and an online auction, on Friday, May 1. No admission fee, and families of all ages are invited to visit 4:30-6:30pm ...






















