Healdsburg News

Plans for a high end hotel and restaurant in Healdsburg have been cancelled. Developers were hoping for a 70 room hotel and PlumpJack restaurant to go up on a 3 acre parcel one and a half blocks south of the plaza known as "Mill Street Row"...but that's not going to happen.

My tasting room hostess at Chalk Hill Estate has a dream: to be reincarnated as one of her employer's horses.

Submitted by SHNS on Tue, 07/07/2009 - 15:59. Al Wolf's cell phone rings. He listens.

It took me a long time in my evolution as a wine lover to truly understand the amount of money and sweat and energy that goes into building a world class winery over decades, even centuries.

O n a recent Sunday morning in downtown Petaluma, 34-year old Geoff Kruth sits sipping a coffee and looking relaxed in a simple blue T-shirt and jeans.

Chris Andre, courtesy of Greg Lindgren. Rye on the Road's mobile bar unit, inspired by the bar at Rye on Geary Street in San Francisco.

A couple of months ago, a Sonoma job listing flew around the internet . Not only was it posted everywhere, but it was emailed to me by about 100 people and even made news in places like the New York Times and LA Times.

Posted on June 22nd, 2009 11:22 PM By Bill Ward IA love going to Napa, but one of the biggest reasons I prefer Sonoma goes back to my childhood.

Development of this city's historic, long-vacant railyard has received a giant boost with the Town Council's recent approval of a master plan and environmental impact report.

A Healdsburg man was sentenced to five years and four months in state prison Wednesday morning in Sonoma County Superior Court for arsons at local businesses three years ago.

I was in Healdsburg over the weekend and discovered a new store called The Red Paprika.

The City of Healdsburg has come up with a plan to address a projected budget deficit of nearly $900,000. At a planning session on Monday city leaders considered eliminating one foot patrol police officer, layoffs in the Planning Department and closing the municipal pool during the winer months.

The City of Healdsburg has some tough decisions to make as a Tuesday deadline nears.

Healdsburg Family Housing held a ceremonial ground-breaking for an affordable and green housing development on its site near downtown Healdsburg Wednesday.

With a wedding planned for California's wine country in the middle of the recession, my fiance and I worried not just about what we were spending, but also about our guests.

Find out more about Brian: Brian Yaeger is the author of Red, White, and Brew: An American Beer Odyssey .

Listen to the report It's a marketing gig at the Murphy-Goode Winery in Healdsburg.

After all, the July event is taking place in a region where $400-a-night hotel rooms and $240 fixed price meals can intimidate even the most budget-savvy traveler.

The town of Healdsburg in Sonoma -- known for its swanky boutiques, elegant hotels and restaurants, as well as numerous wineries -- is set to have a new development of affordable housing.

The woman leaning against the tasting bar at Papapietro Perry Winery thought she'd identified the soul-icious blues music being played over the sound system.