Police Log, July 1-17
Monday, July 1
7:53am The Reporting Party (RP) wanted a person in the bathroom at Quail & Condor to leave. The person had a guitar with her. An officer responded, but the subject was gone on arrival (GOA) and unable to be located (UTBL).
1:08pm The...
New Laws With Local Impact Take Effect
Rental deposits, gun taxes, fast track for housing projects are among the new laws passed in the first half of 2024 that take effect this month...
Police Log, June 24 – 30
Senior Hit-and-Run, Juvenile Drinking and Driving, Impersonation and Graffiti were among the incidents that appear in our Police Log for the week of June 24-June 30...
Fireworks Canceled for Healdsburg Independence Day
"The paper comes out a day early this week because Thursday’s news is already settled—it’s Independence Day, the Fourth of July in Healdsburg," begins our article. But things do change - the city's fireworks display was canceled for July 4, though the Kids Parade, Duck Dash and other weekend events will go forward as planned...
Montage Parking Lot Challenge Gets Results
Montage Healdsburg’s plan to remove 107 blue oak trees to build a new parking lot has been withdrawn by the developer. The plan, approved by the Planning Commission at its May 28 meeting, drew immediate protest from a group of local environmentalists, who took the formal measure of filing an appeal of the approval....
Former Visitors’ Center for Rent
The two-story Mediterranean-style cottage at 217 Healdsburg Ave., which for years served as the public walk-in presence of the Chamber of Commerce, is for rent. Though small—it’s less than 700 square feet, 347 on the ground floor—its location could not be better for the right customer: Next door to the H2Hotel and a block’s walk from the Plaza...
New EV Charges Planned to Close the Gap
Healdsburg has been coming up short some $37,000 annually on its EV charging program, the City Council learned a couple of weeks ago. For every $44,000 it costs for the electric chargers to operate, including the actual price per kilowatt hour to run the...
Police Log, June 17 – 23
Late Checkout, A Stolen Tractor, Battling Brothers and Donuts on Canyon Run were among the incidents reported to Healdsburg Police in mid-June...
‘Purple Pipes’ to Deliver Recycled Water to City Landscapes
The first stage of the project took place in mid-June on Kinney Road, west of Highway 101 near Opperman & Son Inc. At about the same time the pipe was installed on Kennedy Lane just east of the freeway, from there turning up Healdsburg Avenue to University Avenue, and at the Memorial Bridge...
Rail Trails, an Idea Whose Time is Summer
Enter the rail trail. The concept developed in the 1980s as railroads across the country were decommissioned and a growing population sought new trails to travel. Thus the Rails to Trails Conservancy was formed out of timely necessity. Nearly 2,500 rail trails nationally now span 25,000 miles, as practical a reuse of a transportation corridor as one could conceive...

















