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March 11, 2026

Snapshot: Seasonal Spirit in the Movies

Wishing everyone Happy Holidays, Happy Hanukkah, Merry Christmas and a joyous New Year—grateful for our blessings lest we take what we have for granted rather than count them each day. Here's some holiday movies that always make for a seasonal uplift.

Soccer teams tune up for 2026 Redwood league play

Soccer at Healdsburg
This winter’s unsung sports success is the Healdsburg Girls Soccer program, boasting a 5-0 record as 2025 comes to an end. Coach Edgar Gonzales and assistant Brian Saini have found a formula to produce wins on the grass, at home or on the road.

Healdsburg High’s All League players named

Brooklyn Viramontes
The All League teams for the North Bay League (Redwood) have been announced for most fall sports. The named players in football will be revealed following the last playoff games this week, on Dec. 1

Healdsburg Goes Big on Independence Day

The nation’s Independence Day is celebrated on Monday, July 4, and like many communities, Healdsburg plans a party.  A morning duck race will be held in the Plaza, with live music and other low-impact recreation. Then will come time for the sundown fireworks display, produced...

Dog About Town

Dear Editor, My name is Solito. I am a Healdsburg resident and a passionate reader of The Healdsburg Tribune. You may have seen me around town—I frequent the plaza, selected sidewalks, the bookstores and many of the cafes with outdoor seating. I could call myself...

Process begins for SMART Station Area Plan

The City of Healdsburg has begun planning for the eventual arrival of SMART, perhaps as soon as the end of 2028. The planning began at Monday’s City Council meeting, when the five-member board heard from Planning Director Scott Duiven about the formation of a Healdsburg Station Area Specific Plan.

Local Family Feels Burned in Renaming of Gym

The Frost Hall sign on what is now the Drew Esquivel Gym
Anthony Frost, now of Cloverdale, posted, “I’m lost for words. H.C Frost was one of the founding board members of Healdsburg unified and donated much funds to build the first gym in Healdsburg. The Frost family has been in this town since the early 1800s,” he claimed.

Goodbye, Mr. Pinot

Joe Rochioli was one of those people whose chosen trade had an impact far beyond his friends, his family or the town in which he grew up—Healdsburg. He helped start the Future Farmers Fair (still held on Memorial Day weekend), hit home runs for...

Centenarians Celebrate in Healdsburg

Four centenarians get a birthday cake
Senior-home staffers threw a joint birthday party for the Big Four last Friday afternoon, on the final day of February. They branded it a “centenarian celebration.” The first two birthday girls wheeled into the snug party lounge were Healdsburg natives Marge Lampson and Marge Barnard, who remember attending public school together in Healdsburg.

The future comes to Cloverdale

Zuegel and Yarne of the Esmeralda Land Company
Devon Zuegel, founder and president of Esmeralda Land Company, and Michael Yarne, its director of development, stood before an often skeptical audience of close to 300 at the Cloverdale Veterans Memorial Building on Feb. 5 to explain, and defend once again, their ambitious plans for a “Chautauqua of the West” on former logging, Masonite and gravel mining property in Cloverdale.
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Arts & Entertainment

Sally and David Hubbell

Fundraiser: Canapés for a cause

While the Paul Mahder Gallery has held fundraisers in the past, this one focused not on the well-to-do, but rather on those who do without.
Stage actors at the 222

Racial debate on The 222 stage