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The Healdsburg City Council will consider a contract agreement with Dave Kiff — who grew up in Healdsburg and who later served as city manager of the city of Newport Beach — to serve as interim city manager of Healdsburg. If approved, he would take the reins on July 5, after current City Manager David Mickaelian steps down to become the general manager of the Tahoe Donner Association in Truckee.

The 2020 Girl Scout Cookie Season has officially started. For the second year running, winemaker and Mutt Lynch Winery owner Brenda Lynch has created a special “Meet The Cookies” tasting flight for guests to enjoy at the Mutt Lynch tasting room in downtown Windsor.

Measure provides $50 million for emergency preparedness, backfills local property tax revenue losses, and begins updates to 911 Emergency Phone System

Bragging rights and big prizes will be on the line at the 18th annual grapevine pruning championship being sponsored by the Sonoma County Winegrowers on Friday, Feb. 22 at its new vineyard and office location on Guerneville Road.

District Attorney Jill Ravitch announced that on April 10, the California Board of Prison Terms denied parole for the 16th time to 70-year-old former Healdsburg resident Manuel Avalos Flores, who was convicted of the second degree murder of 23-year-old Ricoberto Arroyo in 1981.

At 10 a.m., students poured from classrooms and into protest mode in communities throughout Sonoma County to demand action to prevent gun violence and to remember the 17 high school students and teachers who lost their lives last month in Florida. This slideshow includes protests (and a few counterprotests) in Sebastopol, Windsor, Healdsburg, and Cloverdale.

The Healdsburg Tourism Improvement District (HTID) is seeking an individual from the public to serve on a voluntary committee comprised of one city official and one HTID member to oversee a “Destination Development Fund” that is dedicated to services, improvements and activities that improve the quality of life in the community. This committee will make recommendations to the larger HTID board on where funds should be directed.

The Healdsburg Museum’s next offering is “She Persisted.” The exhibition highlights notable women in local history. Their colorful lives and significant achievements in the 19th and early 20th centuries helped shape the character of our community. The exhibition will include historic artifacts, narratives and photographs, plus an extensive display of local historic artwork by Jane Raabe, Myra Hazen, Ollie Gaddini Bacigalupi, Maude Needham Latimer, Alice Haigh Dixon and Rosinda Holmes.

The following are excerpted from the Healdsburg Police Department daily log and Sonoma County Sheriff Department log entries for the Healdsburg area.

The Ironman triathlon race this Saturday, July 29 will impact traffic on several roads surrounding Healdsburg and in the north county, beginning as early as 7 a.m. and continuing to early afternoon.