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As “Dry January” unrolls, it’s time to examine the physical side of fitness. With three larger gyms and a half-dozen smaller studios, the options for finding an appropriate level of fitness maintenance is up to you. Their offerings are multiple: mat-based barre, Pilates, cycling classes, yoga, strength training, HIIT, cardio dance, even sound baths and mitt boxing.

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...

The 26th annual Healdsburg Jazz Festival continues its 9-day immersion in music, with nightly concerts at Bacchus Courtyard Thursday through Sunday and other shows at the Elephant, Farmers’ Market, St Paul’s Church and Sunday afternoon, 2pm, at the Raven...

Measure J, the initiative on the November ballot to shut down a number of Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations  (CAFOs) or “factory farms” in Sonoma County, has encountered widespread opposition among public governing bodies, most recently including the Healdsburg City Council...

Ariel Kelley attended the DNC last week, and found the current political excitement possible not only because of the Harris-Walz campaign and the Democratic Convention—"to me it’s actually about something so much bigger than a few days in Chicago," she wrote....

Even as the city prepares for Sunday’s Healdsburg Crush—a Plaza event to “taste limited production Pinot Noir and Sparkling Wines from over 60 of the top California wine producers”—the city council on Oct. 2 agreed to allow the much larger Healdsburg Food & Wine...

The Healdsburg City Council got its first good look at the latest plans for the Foley Family Community Pavilion last week, and despite some questions about abandoning legacy events from the Plaza altogether, the council liked what it saw.

When it comes to the band’s fondness for British rock, Cummings recalls how he and guitarist/co-writer Randy Bachman were glued to their radios as kids growing up in Winnipeg, Canada. They soon went on to form Guess Who, a stable of hard rock radio in 1970.

The Border Patrol conducted unannounced raids throughout Bakersfield on Tuesday, Jan. 7, descending on businesses where day laborers and field workers gather. Agents in unmarked SUVs rounded up people in vans outside a Home Depot and gas station that serves a breakfast popular with field workers. "It was profiling; it was purely field workers,” said the manager of a local gas station.

"I am an affordable housing advocate, but Measure O and its aftermath are riddled with issues. I see it as a huge, uncertain affordability experiment, not a plan..." So writes a long-time Healdsburg resident about the city's plan to create an exclusion zone from the Growth Management Ordinance...