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What makes Healdsburg’s market particularly unique is the continued dominance of non-primary residence purchases. In 2024, 61% of all purchases were for second homes or investment properties, with rural properties showing an even higher rate at 76%. This tracks with 2023 when 64% of properties were purchased as non-primary residences, writes a local realtor.

A comprehensive study is being prepared to look at various non-binding options

Several budget amendments will free up $1.4 million in Healdsburg’s Measure T funds to support a number of new city projects and initiatives such as homeless support and planning, targeted business loan forgiveness and universal basic income among others.

A handful of west county post offices are closed in response to the evacuation alerts from the Walbridge Fire. People in the areas with closed post offices are being directed to the main post office, located in Petaluma, to pick up their mail.

As part of our letters section this week, the Tribune is publishing letters from students at The Alexander Valley School about what they’re thankful for this year.

MONDAY, JANUARY 7

Gone fishing

Concluding the Sebastopol City Council’s third budget discussion earlier this month, Mayor Una Glass called for Sebastopol city staff to prepare a final city budget for the fiscal year 2021-22 for adoption at the upcoming July 20 city council meeting.

9:48am A phone indicated that the phone’s owner was in an accident on Healdsburg Avenue. An officer responded, but the phone’s owner was gone on arrival and unable to be located. Phone calls to the device were not answered... And more news from the weekly Police Logs.

For the past year, Devon Zuegel of Esmeralda Land Company has engaged in talks to purchase nearly 270 acres of land at the south end of sleepy Cloverdale, and to develop it into a new town, or neighborhood, to be called Esmeralda.