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February 9, 2026

Healdsburg in bloom with art this weekend

Healdsburg Arts Festival in the Plaza
The Healdsburg Plaza will once again be transformed into an expansive open-air gallery of sculpture, metalwork, glass art and painting—not just oils, but watercolor, acrylic, chalk and anything else that can make a two-dimensional space come alive. There will be fabric arts, woodworkers, ceramics and a hatmaker, some new to Healdsburg but many return participants, in the Healdsburg Arts Festival, 2025.

$1.15M Closes the Books on Roundabout

The Healdsburg Roundabout has proven its worth in traffic control, and a lingering dispute between the city, its contracted engineering firm and the contractor chosen to construct the project was only resolved last week with a $1.15 million settlement in the city's favor.

Flashback: Boys break the pom-pom barrier

1960s Cheerleaders
When a girl wants to be a cheerleader at Healdsburg High School, all she has to do is go to the practices, find a sponsor, perform a cheer in front of the student body and get enough votes to be elected. Simple enough. But what happens when the cheerleading candidate is a boy? Flashback to 1975, when they figured out how to make it happen.

It’s Not Spring till the Market Opens

New chair of the Healdsburg Farmers Market, Shalie Gaskill Jonker, in a sprouting tent at Noble Goat Ranch.
“I think one of the things that people don’t think about is how long the produce lasts,” said Janet Ciel, Healdsburg Farmers Market manager. “So you buy from a farmer’s market that was picked that morning or the night before, but when you buy from a grocery store, that same head of lettuce, it’s three or four or five days in a freaking truck before you ever get it to your home!”

Best of Food and Drink 2024

best of food and drink in healdsburg california
Best Coastal Cuvée of Wine & Vibe For locals who just want a good glass of wine—minus tourist crowds and party vibe—Marine Layer Wines might be the spot. It won this year's Best Tasting Room category in Healdsburg, and that's saying something. This isn’t just...

Healdsburg Happenings, Feb. 20

Image from the short film 'Brat'
"The Shape of Things," a play by Neil LaBute, will be performed on stage at The 222 on two successive weekends, Feb. 21-23 and Feb. 28-March 2. It’s billed as a “fascinating study into the nature of love and art, and what happens when the two collide.” Tickets from free (18 and under) to $105 (gold level seating).

Postcard From the DNC in Chicago

Ariel Kelley in Chicago
Ariel Kelley attended the DNC last week, and found the current political excitement possible not only because of the Harris-Walz campaign and the Democratic Convention—"to me it’s actually about something so much bigger than a few days in Chicago," she wrote....

Healdsburg Happenings, April 17-25

Egg Scramble at Fitch Mountain School
The Rotary Club of Healdsburg invites everyone to join its annual free Easter Egg Scramble on Saturday, April 19, 9am at the Fitch Mountain School (565 Sanns Lane). Designed to be inclusive, accessible and open. Due to the shortage, however, plastic eggs will be used.

Tribune Photos of the Year

Christmas ornament selfie
A self-selected set of nine Healdsburg Tribune images from the year 2025, by Rick Tang.

Healdsburg Happenings, March 6

Dali's Persistence of Memory
It’s time again to set all clocks forward an hour to comport with Daylight Saving Time, to make better use of the longer daylight available during summer. Officially begins at 2am, which becomes 3am when clocks are set forward. DST runs until Nov. 2, the first Sunday in November.
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The good, the bad and the Oscars

Now that the nominations have been announced, let’s talk about them and what people should try to see before the big show. And once we get closer (the Oscars are March 15 this year), I’ll write my annual piece on what will win versus what should win.

Persistence of Memory