Three-Peat! Packers Go the Distance Again
The term “three-peat” is well known though rarely earned in sports. But the Healdsburg Prune Packers proved themselves in exclusive company by winning their third consecutive championship title in the California Collegiate League (CCL).
The entire series, as it is every year, is played in...
Council Sticks with 5-District, Rotating Mayor Decision
It was Assistant City Manager Andrew Sturmfels' last meeting in Healdsburg before he begins work for Sonoma County, but the same old City Council was on the dais to double-down on their controversial decision to set a 5-district limit for Healdsburg's new government....
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...
Harvest: ‘For me, Christmas lives inside a cake’
My family’s tradition is the bûche de Noël. A Christmas log. It arrives on an antique silver platter, dusted lightly with powdered sugar for snow, as if it has just been lifted from the forest floor.
Last Election of its Kind
On Tuesday night, four of the five residents on the ballot for the Healdsburg City Council whiled away the after-dinner hours downtown, waiting for the results of the day’s general election. Although newcomer Heather Hannan-Kramer was nowhere to be found, Ariel Kelley and her...
Raven Players Delay New Play Opening
The traditional home of the Raven Players is, and always has been, the Raven Theater. This week, however, the Players are trying on not just a new play, but a new stage: Their upcoming production of Stephen Sondheim’s Company will take place at the Windsor High School Theater Building, starting June 28...
July Ends With North Village Fire
On Monday afternoon, the last day of July, multiple fire agencies responded to a vegetation fire that spread from the North Village development north of town. North Village, which includes housing and shopping areas, is expected to open in the autumn but is still...
Fairy Doors Open into Imaginary Spaces
Walk through the town of Healdsburg on any given day and one will often find a family or a group of children running around trying to find as many doors as possible. The doors spark imaginations—who doesn’t want to know where the fairies reside when they are not working?
Healdsburg Fire Station No. 2 opens its doors
Friends and family of firefighters, passersby and the curious converged on the new Healdsburg Fire Department Station No. 2 on Saturday, to take a first look at the now-completed building.
Movies Headed Back to Healdsburg
Not all meetings of the Planning Commission are controversial. Sure, some get appealed to the City Council and a few end up in court; many pass a project on to the residents of Healdsburg in the form of higher buildings, more traffic and less...
Arts & Entertainment
Healdsburg Happenings, Jan. 8-20
SINGING AND DANCING! Members of the Young At Heart Theatre rehearse for the upcoming performances of ‘Fosse!’ at the Raven. The education theater group will also present ‘Come Together,’ based around the music of the Beatles, this same weekend.






















