Arista Winery Sells Healdsburg Tasting Room
The recent trend of local wineries reducing costs by selling off their prime Healdsburg properties — including Thumbprint, Ketcham, Truett Hurst and Comstock, off the top of my head — continues this winter with the McWilliams family’s Arista Winery and tasting room on Westside Road.
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Council to consider approving amendment to water shortage contingency plan
The Healdsburg City Council has a short agenda on tap for its next meeting on Tuesday, Jan. 18. However, the council will be looking at several important items, including an amendment to the Healdsburg Municipal Code updating the Water Shortage Contingency Plan, and the Project Homekey grant acceptance and purchase/sale agreement for the L&M Motel, the future site of the city’s interim housing site.
Jordan Vineyard & Winery embarks on multi-year plan to craft a habitat for pollinators
Earlier this spring, Jordan Vineyard & Winery announced the launch of a multi-year planting program to turn several acres of non-native grassland into a preserved habitat for pollinators such as the Western Monarch butterfly, natives bees and other insects.
Drug overdose-related deaths continue to be a concern in Sonoma County
In the past year, the pandemic has had many effects on mortality, including deaths from COVID-19, however, drug overdose deaths continue to be a concern and appear to have been exasperated by the pandemic according to a report from Jenny Mercado, a Sonoma County epidemiologist.
Russian River Redevelopment Oversight Committee announces elections
Candidate filing papers for the 2009 Russian River Redevelopment
Benedetti car wash is headed to Sebastopol Avenue
The Sebastopol City Council gave the highly debated Benedetti car wash the greenlight after nearly three hours of discussion at its extended March 2 public hearing and deliberation.
Five-hour standoff leads to arrest in Forestville
A Forestville man was arrested Tuesday following a five-hour standoff with Sonoma County deputies.
High schools plan pandemic-proof graduations
How do you hold a mass event like a graduation at a time when mass events are forbidden? Very, very carefully, it turns out.















