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COMMENTARY — On Jan. 21, the Healdsburg City Council met to consider a $7 million donation from the Foley Family Foundation to build the approved community space, performance center and farmers market at 3 North. Over 100 citizens attended, and many walked away embarrassed and dismayed by our elected’s performance. Based on a show of hands, an overwhelming majority was eager to embrace this unique and generous offer and was excited to see the city finally move forward with a project that was years in the planning and adopted by council in 2017, but lacked funding. All with virtually no strings attached.

A few months ago I lived in country with healthcare available for pretty much everyone. I also lived in a country that seemed to be opening its arms up wider and wider for people of various sexual preferences, gender identifications, religious beliefs; in which...

You’ve probably heard that your hometown golf course is hilly, which means you play a hole that’s several hundred yards downhill, which makes the ball carry forever, and makes you think, “You know, I’m pretty good at this.”  Then you take a sharp turn to...

With one of the largest congregations in town and Sunday worship services at 10 a.m. that draw 300 members and visitors each week, the First Baptist Church of Windsor (FBC), is the only house of faith in this community with a private elementary and junior high school.

When I started my career in newspapers 43 years ago, we still set our classified ads with lead type. In 1985 I trained myself on our first Apple Macintosh computer at The Healdsburg Tribune. I retired my beloved Canon FTb film camera in 1996 and launched our first internet website in 1999.

John Sugg, 62, had a ringside seat for some of the biggest blazes that swept across Santa Rosa this past October. The President of the Sonoma Patient Group, which is the second oldest medical cannabis dispensary in northern California, Sugg lives west of 101 near Cleveland Avenue.

Looking for a lost pet or a new four-legged friend? See the list of incoming strays and the slideshow of cats and dogs available for adoption from the Sonoma Humane Society, Healdsburg Center.