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March 2, 2026

Fires of Change

Images of the Tubbs Fire devastation that swept across Sonoma County just under five years ago, in October 2017, invariably trigger reminders of just how sudden and complete the disaster was. That’s understandably how Embers of Awakening begins, but that is not where it ends:...

Summer’s school of hard rock

'School of Rock' on stage
Andrew Lloyd Webber bought the stage rights to the 2003 Richard Linklater/Mike White film starring Jack Black and joined with playwright Julian Fellowes (Downton Abbey!) and lyricist Glen Slater (The Little Mermaid) to bring the tale of Dewey Finn’s transformation of a group of prep school students into rock stars to Broadway as a musical. It's now at the Raven Theater in Healdsburg.

Take a Time Machine Into Healdsburg’s Past

The past comes to life, albeit on a reduced scale, at the Healdsburg Museum this week with the new exhibit “Modeling Healdsburg: Creations of a Master Woodworker.” It is a collection of replicas, micro-sculptures and reconstructions by woodworker Jon Lacaillade, who for past museum...

Top 5 Local Stories of 2024

Inside a hot air ballon
There’s a tradition in the news biz, at year’s end, of retracing all the major stories that unfolded during the 12 months prior. It feels like a healthy exercise—an opportunity to zoom out and let the bigger picture sink in, free from the frantic 24-hour news cycle (or, weekly in our case). It’s also a great reminder, though small-town life can seem humdrum, that we’re surrounded at all times by modern-day lore and legend...

TEDx Returns With Inspiration

TEDx Sonoma County returns to the spacious, comfortable Jackson Theater on Saturday, March 2, for a lively afternoon of intellectual stimulation and life-changing inspiration from a dozen speakers who have something to say.

Best of Healdsburg 2025 Party Photos

Best of Healdsburg 2025 Party
View our online photo gallery from the Best of Healdsburg 2025 party. See your picks for the best businesses in Healdsburg, California right here!

Midpoint in the Fall Sports Season

The Healdsburg High School athletics program is midway through its first normal autumn in several years. A total of 149 students are participating in the season’s sports, from a football team of 43 to a girls’ golf squad of five to a cheer team...

Songs, spicy food and wine at SIP Healdsburg

SIP Healdsburg at La Crema
Patrick Davis, writer of a number of successful songs for other artists, organizes the SIP series. He founded the SIP series in the Bahamas in 2013; it's their fourth appearance in Healdsburg, now underway.

‘Formula Businesses’ Get a Hearing

'Vote Local' sign in Healdsburg
A formula store is defined in the General Plan as, “A business that is required by contractual or other arrangement to maintain any of the following: standardized services, menu, decor, uniforms, architecture, signs or other similar features and is not part of a locally- or regionally-based group of businesses...”

Snapshot: The OG conservationists

Amish country in Ohio
Living in a tech-dominated world, it’s hard to imagine a day or year without a cellphone or car, yet that is every day, every year, for the Amish.
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Arts & Entertainment

Cast of 'A Good Deal'

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.
Stage actors at the 222

Racial debate on The 222 stage

Christine Webster plays the blues

Turning music into magic