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January 17, 2026

Dia de Muertos With a Local Accent

Healdsburg’s annual Dia de Muertos festival returns to the Plaza on Sunday, Oct. 30, complete with marigold-adorned altars, a classic car show and live musical performances. Cosponsored by Corazón Healdsburg and the City of Healdsburg, the day-long celebration connects many of the region’s large Latino...

Inside Jendala’s Creative Space

Jendala and her 'jingle truck'
The Healdsburg Arts Festival is back again this year, pared down to one busy day in the Plaza. Starting Saturday morning at 10am until 7pm, more than 40 artists will sell their personal and unique artwork of every description—from watercolors, oils and acrylics to...

Now more than ever, Sonoma County youth are struggling with mental health

As more and more youth experience negative mental health impacts fueled by years of natural disasters and a pandemic, local school counselors and mental health experts are seeing an uptick in requests by adolescents for social-emotional support. “We see students experiencing social-emotional effects due to...

Boosters Deliver $74,000 for Greyhounds

Booster present check
Whatever the result of the year’s first gridiron game at Rec Park, the halftime period is worth its weight in gold—in the form of a giant check written out in the amount of $74,160 to the high school’s athletics programs...

Mexican hero becomes a family legend

Ballet Folklorico de Cloverdale
Local drama takes another step forward with the next play at the Raven, "Who Will Dance with Pancho Villa?" But the production, which opens on Jan. 22 for an eight-performance run, is hardly new. Gabriel Fraire and his brother John wrote it over 30 years ago and it had its first off-Broadway performance in New York in 1994.

Corazón Healdsburg events coming soon

Corazón Healdsburg has been actively working to put the Latinx community in Healdsburg and surrounding areas to the front. Among its many resources and programs, upcoming events in April and May are scheduled to celebrate the community. On April 30, several local partners are joining...

Bird Bikes Take Flight to Another Location

Bird Bikes at Healdsburg City Hall
In his bi-weekly City Manager’s Report of April 4, Jeff Kay broke the news that the Bird Bikes program, providing a “micro-mobility” option for Healdsburg residents and visitors, has been canceled well ahead of its expected expiration date in early 2026. “Bird recently notified the City of their intent to terminate the agreement and we regret to announce that the e-bike share program will be concluding its operations in Healdsburg,” Kay wrote.

Swamp sisters in Southern Gothic play

'Sugar Bean Sisters' in Cloverdale
Reviewer Harry Duke last spent time with The Sugar Bean Sisters eight years ago at a production by the Spreckels Theatre Company in Rohnert Park. His general reaction at the time was that it was a very strange show. If anything, now it's stranger.

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.

Pride rises in Wine Country

Professionals with Pride
The June 8 flagpole event starts at 2pm, featuring speakers and entertainment for about a half-hour after which the group will adjourn to the nearby Healdsburg Bar & Grill (245 Healdsburg Ave.) for an after-party and auction...
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Ballet Folklorico de Cloverdale

Mexican hero becomes a family legend

Local drama takes another step forward with the next play at the Raven, "Who Will Dance with Pancho Villa?" But the production, which opens on Jan. 22 for an eight-performance run, is hardly new. Gabriel Fraire and his brother John wrote it over 30 years ago and it had its first off-Broadway performance in New York in 1994.