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"I was so happy to see that the City of Healdsburg has given us a chance to suggest an official City flower, plant or tree as representative of Healdsburg," writes reader Mary Kelley. "I was especially pleased to see that all of the options are California Native Plants. There are five different plants from which to choose, and the sixth option is a category which encompasses a variety of species of Oak trees."

The big news this week is that the Sonoma County-born white rhinoceros Otto Lang celebrated his first birthday on Tuesday. He was born April 2, 2023, with a birth weight of about 100 pounds—after Safari West’s rhino-love doctors spent nearly 15 years trying to...

Statistics find only small amount of residents can buy median priced homes

Trump is not above the law

At the Aug. 7 meeting of the Healdsburg City Council, the first five speakers in the open public comment period had a common topic: honey bees.  Starting with Candice Koseba of Sonoma County Bee Company and ending with Michel Thiele of Apis Arborea, the speakers...

Healdsburg’s Community Housing Committee has a full agenda for its April 30 meeting, which will be held on Monday at 5 p.m. at Healdsburg City Hall.

Most of the Sebastopol Police Department’s (SPD) computer systems have been restored since the July 11 compromise that’s still under investigation, according to Sebastopol Police Chief Kevin Kilgore. Law enforcement will wait until the investigation’s end to determine whether the incident amounts to a cyberattack, he said.

The Cloverdale Citrus Fair announced this week that it’s debuting a new scholarship competition at the 2022 Citrus Fair. The Ambassador Scholarship Program is a shift from the fair’s long-standing queen pageant and is open to all high school juniors and seniors from Cloverdale and Geyserville. The 2022 Citrus Fair will take place Feb. 18-21.

The Healdsburg Jazz Festival will bring it home from May 31 to June 9.