Summer baseball league race all but over
To no one’s surprise, the Healdsburg Prune Packers begin the last full week of PEL (Pacific Empire League) play on Wednesday with an unassailable 5.5 game lead over two second-place teams, their 20 wins against only three losses demonstrating their dominance. With only three or four games left for each team, a different pennant winner is impossible.
Indigenous Poets to Read at The 222
The City Council made an honorary proclamation of California Native American Day at their Sept. 19 meeting, but the local culture scene is taking it further—recognizing three Indigenous poets over the next two months with readings and conversation from the stage at The 222.
“Indigenous...
Paid Parking Comes to Healdsburg—but Is It Legal?
Visitors to Healdsburg are now finding more public parking spots right downtown, in a large central lot formerly reserved for business use. The lot is getting heavy use on weekends, and the competition for those 30-plus slots can be stiff. There’s one catch—it’s not...
Run the Turkey Trot on Turkey Day
The morning before that big Thanksgiving dinner, the annual Healdsburg Turkey Trot 5K race will give residents and visitors a chance to burn a few hundred calories and start the holiday season on a sound physical foundation.
The Turkey Trot, now in its 11th year...
Healdsburg hoopers overcome injuries
Healdsburg’s varsity basketball team plays as hard as any in the county, pulling off the occasional upset while fighting to keep its year record respectable. Second-year coach AJ Crosby said, as the league season began on Jan. 7, “I think we’re starting to hit our stride now.”
Greyhounds hit their stride in 2026
December is a strange month in prep sports—both girls and boys teams are playing basketball and soccer , but a two-week holiday break kicks in before the conference matches begin. That changes this week...
SIP Samples Songwriting Talent This Week
Those who have experienced Songwriters in Paradise have a difficult time coming up with an elevator pitch to describe it. It’s intimate. There’s great music. There is delicious food, and of course there is premium wine. But there’s more than that.
“It’s magical … it’s...
Homecoming Parade: A Slice of Americana
By John Linker
Every high school has a Homecoming, but not every high school holds a Homecoming Parade.
Last Friday afternoon, Healdsburg carried on its yearly tradition of holding one such parade. Four floats, one per class at the high school, were escorted by Healdsburg police...
Healdsburg Happenings, Feb. 26 – March 5
New exhibit at the Healdsburg Museum on the 1970s... St Vincent at Little Saint... Mardis Gras at St. John the Baptist... and more this week in Healdsburg.
Track & Field at Montgomery’s Viking Classic
One of the largest track meets in the area took place last weekend at Montgomery High School in Santa Rosa. Known as the Viking Track Classic, the 33rd year of the meet saw more than 60 high school teams show up for the day-long competition on Saturday, April 20.
Arts & Entertainment
Blues from the Hill Country
“Modern Mississippi music.” If you ask singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Luther Dickinson to define what the North Mississippi Allstars (NMA) create, that’s the answer he’ll give. It’s the path he and his brother Cody have been traveling down ever since NMA dropped their 2000 debut, Shake Hands with Shorty, and one the band members will share when they hit the LBC stage on May 9.
