Healdsburg News

Philharmonia Healdsburg, a group of professional musicians from the Bay Area and beyond who perform classical music, will give two concerts this weekend at the Raven Performing Arts Theater in Healdsburg.

A Healdsburg Vice Mayor Susan Jones, who retired in 2010 after nine years as Healdsburg Police Chief and who was elected to City Council in November 2010, has been recruited to serve as interim police chief in Calistoga starting Monday.

Healdsburg is joining a growing number of cities looking for a sales tax increase to help salvage their teetering budgets.

A Healdsburg will juxtapose business with pleasure tonight as City Council will deliberate on weighty finance issues just as salsa music at the first Plaza concert is hitting its stride in the second set.

Although you can - and even, perhaps, should - make a galette at any time of year, I start thinking about them as spring's harvest kicks into full steam.

On Tuesday nights for the next 14 weeks, it's mostly about the community of folks who call Healdsburg home.

A Several cast members of Healdsburg's successful first "Dancing With the Stars at the Raven" event last November have joined together to create a new Latin dance festival in Sonoma County in September.

A "Looking and Learning" is the theme of the 2012 Sonoma County Master Gardeners "Bloomin' Backyards" event in the Healdsburg area .

A Bright sun framed members of the American Legion, Sotoyome Post 111, as they gathered Monday in front of the American Legion marker "Dedicated in Memory of World War Veterans 1933." The Boy Scouts Color Guard attended with flags at the annual ceremony before more than 100 people at Healdsburg's Oak Mound Ceremony.

A What with barbecue season descending on us over Memorial Day weekend, we thought we would take the question one step further for our "Readers' Choice Healdsburg 2012" contest this week.

Posted by PD staff in Cities , Featured Articles on May 26th, 2012 tags: Babb , Chambers , City Council , Growth , Healdsburg , Jones , Plass , Winston , Wood Jim Winston authored and helped pass a voter approved measure in 2000 that restricted the number of new dwellings in Healdsburg to 30 per year.

Jim Winston lives about a mile outside Healdsburg city limits, but he's had outsized effect on determining how the town grows.

Soda Rock Winery, the best winery for social gatherings and winery weddings in Sonomas Alexander Valley, recently held its annual charity event for the benefit of the Children of Vineyard Workers Scholarship Fund.

A The 63rd Annual Healdsburg Future Farmers Country Fair continues this weekend at Recreation Park.

Memorial Day weekend looms - OK, some of us are already in the mood and mode - and with it the Northern California summer of 2012.

A Memorial Day observances to honor the fallen will begin at 10 a.m. Monday with the traditional gathering at Healdsburg's Oak Mound Cemetery.

Call it a reverse evolution or maybe just a return to its roots, but ~RAVENOUS CAFE~ has reopened in its original eight-table space next to the Raven Theater after shuttering the 420 Center Street bungalow it inhabited for nearly a decade.

A A grand opening and dedication for the Harry and Maggie Wetzel Native Plant Garden will be held Saturday, May 26 at 10 a.m. along Foss Creek at 3 North St.

Healdsburg's Twilight Parade, a throwback to to its agricultural roots, kicked off the Future Farmers Country Fair on Thursday with thousands of spectators lining the downtown streets.

A Cheers, screams and applause shook downtown Healdsburg Thursday as more than 60 floats, bands, horses, antique cars and gymnasts strutted through streets lined with spectators.