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Healdsburg
March 11, 2026

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,...

Police Log, May 12-18

Police car with Chief Matt Jenkins
In the early morning hours of May 14, a hit-and-run accident occurred on Hudson Street at Front Street. The RP requested police check the area. Officers arrived on scene and located the RP’s vehicle that was legally parked with damage to the body. Officers located a trail of oil leading to a suspect vehicle possibly involved in the accident. The vehicle was towed for evidence and a report was taken

Healdsburg Happenings, Sept. 4 – 12

Dancers in the Healdsburg Plaza
Pachanga! The city’s celebration of arts grants winners is Saturday Sept. 6 at the Healdsburg Plaza, starting at 5:30pm. This free and family friendly event shines a spotlight on the talented recipients of the Diversity in the Arts Grant as a Latin American fair with live music, dancers, photographers, visual artists and more.

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...

What is the Brown Act?

Ralph M. Brown
A recent article in this paper made reference to the Brown Act, and it warrants explanation what exactly that is. Most people have the correct understanding that it relates to government transparency, to ensure that public business is conducted in an open and transparent...

Healdsburg gets high marks for hosting REIBT

The 76th annual Redwood Empire Invitational Basketball Tournament produced not only good high school basketball, but singing, dancing, rapping and some old-fashioned foolishness at the Smith Robinson Gym...

Foley Community Pavilion Begins Construction

The atmospheric rivers parted, the bomb cyclone passed, the skies cleared and about a hundred people assembled at noon on Tuesday at the former Purity Building—which began life in 1921 as an agricultural warehouse for wine grapes—to mark the beginning of its transformation into...

Fitch Mountain roadway under repair

Road repair around Fitch Mountain
Healdsburg residents have grown used to the traffic control signs on both Matheson Street and Powell Avenue that warn that the road ahead, at 1846 North Fitch Mountain Rd., is closed and not expected to open until the end of September. Is it on track to open on time?

Police Log, August 2 – 11

Image of police and cotton candy
Healdsburg Police "media bulletin" transcribed and published weekly. Includes a range of reportable incidents, from petty to felonious. Read this week's report...

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...
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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