Prune Packers continue to win big in summer baseball
The dominance of the Healdsburg Prune Packers over the Pacific Empire League, and all of their Northern California rivals in college summer ball, continues. They opened the 2025 season on June 6 and reeled off eight straight victories before encountering PEL rival the Humboldt Crabs on June 18, losing the middle game of a three-game series by a 6-3 score. Now they've won 10 in a row, and counting...
There’s only one R&RHoF
Visiting Cleveland isn’t complete without checking the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame off the bucket list. If in Cleveland, it’s an easy checkmark. It’s Cleveland after all. Despite former claims to fame, Cleveland’s currency now is a museum commemorating rock music, the Rock Hall.
Healdsburg Braces for New Year’s Storm
Last week, the National Weather Service issued a “coastal flood warning” for the entire Sonoma County coastal area—including Healdsburg. But a quieter-than-expected rain event over the weekend averted the dire warnings that the higher-than-normal tides would bring to coastal cities.
This week, however, the weather...
Shakespeare in the Piazza, with pizza
'Two Gentlemen of Verona' is one of Shakespeare’s earlier works. I’ve always thought it was one of the Bard’s easier plays to follow, written before he got all “Shakespeare-y.” It’s the tale of besties Valentine and Proteus whose friendship is tested by, of course, a woman.
‘Buckle of the Prune Belt’ from above
Holly Hoods was taken aback when three men walked into the downstairs office space of the Healdsburg Museum and Historical Society one morning last week. One of them was unknown to the museum director, but he seemed to know a lot about Healdsburg history,...
Parenting the whole child
Have you ever been with your child or grandchild and wondered, “How am I going to get through this day since this child is not listening?”
You start to ask yourself, “Is this ‘Opposite Day?’” since when you say ask them to do one thing...
Healdsburg Happenings, Jan. 23
There’s probably no more room in the kitchen for these hands-on workshops on how to make fresh croissants with a few simple tools. The reason is not the cost but the bakery. It’s the same Quail & Condor that lately survived a whirlwind of attention following its NY Times selection as one of the 22 best bakeries in the country. ..
Cannabis Applicants Jane, Solful win Licenses
By Christian Kallen
It only took about half an hour for the Healdsburg City Council to make up their collective mind in choosing two out of eight applicants for cannabis business licenses in town. And, after a full year of process, eight months of application...
Healdsburg ‘Experience’ Returns for 2nd Year
A robust four days of special wine tastings and pairing seminars, bespoke lunches and dinners, cooking demonstrations, cocktail parties and a live outdoor concert at Rodney Strong Vineyards shines a glamorous light on Healdsburg this weekend, the second year of the Healdsburg Food &...
Harvest: This is how summer begins
"Every year on the Thursday before Memorial Day, the streets of Healdsburg fill with music and marching bands, vintage tractors and streamers, and the laughter of the Twilight Parade," writes Liza Gershman in her bi-weekly "Harvest" column. "This is the rhythm of small-town summer: unhurried, joyful, deeply familiar..."
Arts & Entertainment
Romance about genetic disease is Ron Nash’s latest
The arts did not beckon when Ron Nash was a young man—far from it. “I was in trouble mentally in high school. I was angry, angry, angry,” he said. He even got kicked out of school, but his athletic ability—he was a hurdlers champion in track—earned him a scholarship to college.
