The Healdsburg Tribune
By Shaun McCaffery
It seems everyone in Healdsburg knows someone who grew up here or works here but is struggling to make ends meet because of the incredibly high price of housing. For 24 years we haven’t been able to keep up with our housing needs because of the far-fromperfect Growth Management Ordinance (GMO). The GMO is one of the major driving factors behind the tremendous increase in housing costs. Fortunately we still have a chance to start fixing it.
Measure O, which is on the ballot this November, responds precisely to this problem by making adjustments to the GMO in the two specific areas best suited for the kind of housing that can do the most to alleviate prices for middleclass families. This housing would be state-of-the-art, water-smart, economically designed multi-family units (apartments, mainly)—all close to transportation. These geographic areas, adding up to just 15% of the town, are filled with underutilized and neglected parcels, like the old gas station on Piper Street. These lots are perfect sites for the type of housing that can begin alleviating prices for all of us. But this will not happen without Measure O. Sadly, nothing would happen.
Now the flipside: Healdsburg residents are deeply concerned about how growth impacts our town’s unique charm and livability. We always have been. In last week’s issue of The Healdsburg Tribune , we saw an argument that New York City-style density
Tasting Room Tipping Point?
DOWNTOWN PROPOSAL COULD DISPLACE BELOVED SHOE REPAIR SHOP
By Simone Wilson
A relatively modest proposal to build a 1,220-squarefoot, 45-person tasting room inside an existing warehouse in downtown Healdsburg has ignited a familiar debate among residents about the town’s core character.
This would be the 28th wine-tasting room in Healdsburg, city planning officials said at a heated hearing on the proposal last week. An age-old question lingered in the air: How many tasting rooms is too many for one small town?
Adding fuel to the debate were community concerns that a current tenant, the 50-year-old Ramos Shoe Repair shop, might be displaced during construction—potentially
driving out one of Healdsburg’s oldest and most beloved businesses, a last bastion of simpler times.
“Healdsburg has changed a lot,” current owner Jorge Ramos, whose father Demetrio opened the shop in 1974 and just passed away over summer, told the Tribune this week. “It’s kind of sad, in a way. People with money think they can do whatever they want.”
Ramos said he hasn’t yet heard anything about the proposal from his landlords, who have always been good to him—but if he did have to close his doors due to construction, he said he might consider moving his shop to Windsor, or even retiring early.
Christian Foley-Beining, owner of the Chris Foley Fine Leather shop in the next building over, said of the tasting-room proposal: “We have so many things like this. There are all these boutiques, wineries. Ramos is one of the last places in town where you can get something
practical done.”
The plan for 430 Foss St. came before the City of Healdsburg’s Planning Commission on Sept. 24 because owners of the 4,000-square-foot building needed a “conditional use permit” in order to serve alcohol there.
Those owners, Healdsburg residents Rod Matteri and his mother Carole Mascherini—who also happen to own Garrett Ace Hardware together— dabble in winemaking on the side, according to their architect, and want a place in town to serve it.
Their application describes a tasting room open from 10am to 7pm daily, with live acoustic music from Thursday through Sunday. “Occasional events are proposed in conjunction with the tasting room and are estimated to be between 15 and 20 events per year,” the application says. “Interior improvements within the building include… a new bar with five seats; a large table with twelve seats;
and six smaller tables.”
Overhead, a new second story on the building would house two longterm apartments—an addition that drew kudos from commissioners.
Garrett’s owners Matteri and Mascherini did not respond to a request for comment. They were represented at last week’s city meeting by Healdsburg architect Alan B. Cohen, whose designs can also be seen in the Mill District development rising further south along Healdsburg Avenue and the new Foley Family Community Pavilion going up right across Foss Street from the proposed tasting room.
“The tasting room is allowed, and it makes sense why they want it,” Planning Commissioner Carrie Hunt said at the meeting—but “I’m not over the moon for another tasting room in Healdsburg. I do hope that we find ways to maximize space like this to benefit our community of residents and families and workforce,
HOMECOMING PARADE: A SLICE OF AMERICANA
LIVELY TOWN TRADITION MAKES UP FOR TOUGH FOOTBALL GAME
By John Linker
Every high school has a Homecoming, but not every high school holds a Homecoming Parade.
Last Friday afternoon, Healdsburg carried on its yearly tradition of holding one such parade.
Four floats, one per class at the high school, were escorted by Healdsburg
not just tourists.” Hunt called the Ramos family “staples in our community” and said “it’s really important that they don’t feel kicked out.”
Still, she and other planning commissioners granted the Garrett’s owners a permit to serve wine at 430 Foss St., mainly on the grounds that city rules allow for one tasting room per “block face.” The project’s architect, Cohen, explained at the meeting: “The family that owns the property is starting a small sparkling wine company, so they thought it would be ideal to incorporate a tasting room in the building. Obviously that’s not possible on Healdsburg Avenue but since it has frontage on Foss Street, that was an option. It’s a small tasting room, but we think it will work.”
During the public comment period, around a halfdozen Foss Street residents and business owners aired their concerns—some more
police as they meandered through the town’s neighborhoods—starting at the high school, making a couple of rounds around the Plaza and ending at Rec Park, where students stood by for halftime activities. The sudden appearance downtown of hyped-up high schoolers on floats seemed to surprise, then delight, many a passerby. In fact, this very reporter, newly retired from a long career teaching English and AVID at Healdsburg High, was likewise surprised—and delighted—to find himself as a last-minute parade participant, riding shotgun with Spanish teacher Andrea Ruiz in an enormous $100,000 black Chevy pickup truck with all the bells and whistles. This year’s theme was “seasons.” Each class—freshman, sophomore, junior and senior—was assigned ➝ A Slice of Americana, 5
➝ Downtown Proposal, 6
➝ Open Mic, 7
Rendering by Alan B. Cohen, courtesy of the City of Healdsburg
400 BLOCK An architect’s sketch of the mixed-use building proposed along Healdsburg Avenue, two blocks north of the Plaza.
GOINGS ON AROUND TOWN THIS WEEK & NEXT
Desert Rock
Montana-based indie band King Ropes brings their “ramshackle psychedelic Americana noise pop” to the cozy secondfloor concert space at Little Saint, that vegan-food emporium at 25 North St. Doors open at 6pm on Thursday, Oct. 3; show is free, but reserve your seats at littlesainthealdsburg. com/happenings.
Design Fest
The same people who’ve been throwing San Francisco Design Week for nearly 20 years bring a mini version to Healdsburg this Friday, Oct. 4, and Saturday, Oct. 5. The first-ever “Design Healdsburg” festival will play out in various local studios—exploring interiors, architecture, landscape, lighting and art. More info and tickets at designhealdsburg.com.
Dance Party
Friends of the Healdsburg Senior Center host their annual “Celebration!” fundraiser at the center on Oct. 4, from 5-7pm. Enjoy some wine and hors d’oeuvres, enter to win lots of fun prizes and dance to bops from the ’50s, ’60s and ’70s. Grab your tickets in person at 133 Matheson St. Farmers’ Market
Do your fall shopping at the weekly Healdsburg Farmers’ Market at North Street and Foss Creek. Stop
HEALDSBURG HAPPENINGS
by the next one on Saturday, Oct. 5, from 8:30am to noon, for the best fresh local produce in the area.
Beauty-Versary
Head up to the Nova Boutique Salon & Spa in Cloverdale at 11am on Oct. 5 to pamper yourself and celebrate the ninth anniversary of a growing local business with pedicures, “teeny tattoos,” a wine walk and more. 114 E. First St., Cloverdale.
Pumpkin Patch
For fams who love fall, Orsi Family Vineyards is hosting their annual (free) pumpkin patch day from 11am to 3pm on Oct. 5. Also on the agenda: grape stomping, face painting, lawn games, a snow-cone machine and more, 2306 Magnolia Dr. RSVP at orsifamilyvineyards.com/events.
Puppy Love
As is tradition, the Humane Society of Sonoma County will set up its notorious doggie-kissing booth at Merriam Vineyards’ fall pickup party from 1-4pm on Oct. 5. Paella will also abound. 11650 Los Amigos Rd. at the south end of town. Tickets at exploretock.com/ merriamvineyards.
Bike Ride
The “Move! Healdsburg” group hosts its next community bike ride from the Healdsburg Plaza to the Dry Creek General Store and back on Sunday, Oct. 6. It will be a chill, 14-mile ride along West Dry Creek for all ages. Meet at the Plaza at 9am.
Winery Launch Rural Healdsburg’s newest wine brand—Overshine
Wine Co., replacing Armida at 2201 Westside Rd.—will host a combination launch party and harvest party on Sunday, Oct. 6, from 2-5pm. BBQ dinner and live music by MJ’s Brass Boppers. Sister wine brands Idlewild and Comunità are sure to be close at hand. Tickets at exploretock.com/armida.
Monk at the Trunk
One whole Sunday night dedicated to wily jazz legend Thelonious Monk at the Elephant in the Room pub. Spike Sikes and other local jammers will pay tribute on Oct. 6 from 6-9pm. $10 at the door, 177 Healdsburg Ave.
More Jazz Greats
That same night at The 222 a few blocks north, brilliant local father-and-son team Carlos and Gabriel Pereira will play Brazilian jazz for a “community artist showcase” at 7pm, 222
Healdsburg Ave. Tickets are $10 at the222.org.
City Council
The next meeting of the Healdsburg City Council is on Monday, Oct. 7. In addition to other city business, expect an Active Transportation Plan presentation. Starts promptly at 6pm in Council Chambers at 401 Grove St., also online at facebook.com/ cityofhealdsburg.
Swing Lessons
Learn to do the East Coast Swing at The 222’s monthly dance night on Oct. 7, including an hour-long lesson and afterparty. Both classic and contemporary tunes will play from 6:309:30pm, 222 Healdsburg Ave. Tickets are $15 at the222.org.
Hot Topic
Healdsburg’s city housing director, Stephen Sotomayor, will discuss an
LETTERS
UTILITY BILLS HAVE DOUBLED FOR SOME RESIDENTS
SINCE RATE HIKE IN MAY
I received a utilities bill from the City for my August usage. $1,096.84! That’s up from $727.77 in July, which was also outrageous. I called the utilities department several times the week of 16 September, left a message and received no response.
I cannot pay this bill, not now, not ever. After 30 years of teaching our little ones in the Healdsburg Unified School District, I retired in 2015. I receive $4,754.74 from the California State Teachers’ Retirement System and $516.82 from Social Security monthly. I live alone in the 1923 house that my parents purchased 76 years ago in the historic overlay. Despite the drought being over, I continue to use many of the saving strategies from that time: • Handwater the yard in the am and/ or pm, lightly Always run only full loads in the washers • Fewer showers or baths Charge my Tesla at a supercharger in Windsor I do require medical equipment at night ... In August of 2024 I used nine units more water than August of 2023. This was, of course,
one of the hottest summers we’ve had. Those nine units extra cost an extra $471.51 this year. My bill in August 2023 was $625.33, compared to $1,096.84 this year. That’s pretty close to double.
This is, ladies and gentlemen, completely unacceptable for me, as a senior. I believe [city councilmembers] are trying to force me out of my family home, and I also consider this to be elder abuse.
Idea: If each of them chipped in $219.36, that would cover my bill!
Judith Sanderson Healdsburg
My city utility charge for August jumped from just over $300 to $564. I was shocked to
increasingly hot local topic at the Senior Center next Wednesday, Oct. 9, from 1-2pm. Learn more about housing developments and opportunities here in town and discuss the pros and cons of Measure O. 133 Matheson St. Just show up!
Welcome, Weed
Solful, the first of two marijuana dispensaries with city approval to set up shop in Healdsburg, officially opens its doors to the public with a ribbon-cutting at 10am on Friday, Oct. 11. The whole weekend will be a celebratory affair inside Solful’s renovated Victorian, 465 Healdsburg Ave.
Makers Market
Back for its fourth year, the Fall Makers Market at Rodney Strong Vineyards will feature the season’s best crafts from dozens of local artisans. Stop by
from noon to 4pm on Saturday, Oct. 12, at 11455 Old Redwood Hwy. Healdsburg Crush Before the Healdsburg Wine & Food Experience, there was Healdsburg Crush—an outdoor wine-tasting extravaganza downtown that can still boast it’s the “ONLY wine tasting event held on the Healdsburg Plaza.” (The Experience is relegated to the West Plaza Parking Lot.) More than 60 of California’s top wineries will be pouring again this year from noon to 4pm on Sunday, Oct. 13, benefitting the Boys & Girls Club. Tickets from $135-$185 at healdsburgcrush.com.
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see such an increase. My bills have averaged about $300/month for the last couple of years so this was a surprise indeed. I knew the rates
were to increase, but I had no idea it would be this much. Even though we’re not in a drought we continue to conserve water, but we seem to get
penalized for using less. We rarely run our A/C, we don’t waste water— what more can we do?
Photo courtesy Food Network
CRUSH TIME A drone captured
Healdsburg Crush in the Plaza during the 2022 event, with the gazebo roof in the foreground.
Sharyn Sarquis Healdsburg
Photo by Christian Kallen
DECISION POINT Citizens and officials gather at a Healdsburg City Council hearing on new water and wastewater rates on May 6, 2024. Councilmembers approved the rate hikes later that month.
Healdsburg’s Newest Festival: All About Design LIFESTYLE
10 DESIGN-RELATED EVENTS PLANNED OVER 2 DAYS THIS WEEK
Staff Report
For a town of just 12,000 or so, Healdsburg is rife with festivals. Wine festivals. Food festivals. Art festivals. Jazz festivals. Songwriting festivals. Tech festivals. The list grows each year.
And let 2024 be known as the year that the “Design Healdsburg” festival came to town—a two-day exploration of all things design, at a series of 10 events hosted at local studios.
DesignBayArea—the same team behind the nearly 20-year-old San Francisco Design Week, attended by 7,000 design lovers just a few months
ago—decided to bring a pared-down version of their format an hour and a half north this week. According to the group’s executive director, Dawn Zidonis, they chose Healdsburg for its “history of honoring the importance of design in regards to city planning and development” and its status as “a mecca among design aficionados as a destination and as a preferred place to open design studios.”
Some of the events on the schedule for Friday, Oct. 4, and Saturday, Oct. 5: • A talk on “the creativity of place” at SkLO, a new emporium for Czech-style handblown glass at 105A W. North St.
• An open studio at Gallery Lulo, the avantgarde jewelry collective at 303 Center St.
• A fireside chat at the CraftWork co-working space on Center Street, about “how landscape architecture and design contributes to the reciprocal relationships we have with the land”
• Another architecture workshop at Flowers Vineyard & Winery out Westside Road Festival organizers have even bigger ambitions for next year. “The first inaugural edition of Design Healdsburg has been crafted to be very small and intimate to be reflective of the region,” said Zidonis of DesignBayArea. “For the first year we are only promoting locally, and expect a few hundred attendees.
For 2025, we’ll be ramping up not only our regional promotion, but our international outreach.”
Photo by Adam Potts
HIGH END A few of the festival’s events will be held at the SkLO showroom on North Street, which just opened last year.
Courtesy of Design Healdsburg
WARM WELCOME Another festival event, a walk-and-talk on “local art and products,” will be held Oct. 4 inside the chic new Rena Charles Gallery at 439 Healdsburg Ave.
SNAPSHOT
Healdsburg Forever
THE ‘CHARITY’S CHARITY’ CELEBRATES ITS 20TH ANNIVERSARY
By Pierre Ratte
These are just a few of the 100-plus people who came together two weeks ago at Lambert Bridge Winery to celebrate Healdsburg Forever.
Healdsburg Forever?
What exactly is Healdsburg Forever? It’s kind of a charity’s charity. Say, what? It’s kind of a “fund of funds” in reverse. In reverse? No, really, what is Healdsburg Forever?
Healdsburg Forever is an endowed, communityadvised fund, associated with Community Foundation Sonoma County, which focuses competitive grant money on local charities in the Healdsburg area— including Geyserville, Alexander Valley and parts of the Russian River Valley. It was noted at this 20th anniversary celebration
that convincing donors to give to a community endowment was not easy at first. Why not just give to a charity directly?
Fundraising started slowly. Over time, with Carol Beattie’s leadership in revitalizing the composition and energy of the board before and through the pandemic, and now with Alan Preston at the helm, Healdsburg Forever became the place to give for those who want to support a fund which vets grants to Healdsburg nonprofits.
Ozzie Jimenez, Larry Mills and Sarah Hafner are chairs of the grants, growth and communications committees, respectively. With 22 other prominent members—all unpaid volunteers—Healdsburg Forever efficiently stewards gifts through a competitive process.
The annual gathering on Sept. 19 celebrated the organization’s proven ability to steward funds that meet the diverse and competitive needs of our growing community for 20 years.
RIVER AND WINE NEWS FROM THIS WEEK IN HEALDSBURG HISTORY
By The Flashbackers
100 years ago: October 9, 1924
DAM COMING DOWN AS RAIN ARRIVES
With the welcome opening of the rainy season, Lake Sotoyome is, figuratively speaking, to be folded up and put away until next summer. The new dam, construction of which was completed late in the summer season, is being lowered, bit by bit, under the terms of the permit granted by the state engineer. Flashboards will be removed from the face of the dam, one at a time, until all the water in the lake formed around Fitch mountain has been released and the Russian river flows without obstruction through its regular course. The dam base, constructed
Fun facts: Healdsburg Forever gave $400,000 to 12 nonprofits in 2024. Focus areas were food security, health, human resources, youth and
with a view to permanency and the saving of the money required to put in a temporary structure each summer, now faces the important test. Every condition is favorable, but it remains to be seen if the erratic Russian river will permit the concrete caps and the deep sunk piling to remain in its path. The base is below the level of the normal river bed, and there is no reason to believe that it will not stand the test of winter’s high water, but it will be watched anxiously nevertheless by those responsible for its construction.
75 years ago: October 7, 1949
DISPLAYS TO BE FEATURED FOR NAT’L WINE WEEK
Displays will be placed in several stores and business establishments throughout Healdsburg next week in observance of National Wine Week, October 8 to 15. Murals of vineyards in this section and colorful wine arrangements will call attention to the banner, “The Finest Dry
education. Over the course of its history, Healdsburg Forever has awarded 220 grants to 65 local nonprofits, totaling $2.9 million. Its endowment now stands at $2.1 million, ensuring future community needs will be addressed.
Lambert Bridge Winery
graciously donated its facility for the event. Jimenez and Christian Sullberg from Noble Folk took a beat from 280 weddings to volunteer their ice-cream cart and delicious treats.
The Greg Hester Trio added satin jazz notes to a perfect garden gathering.
There are reportedly more than 3,000 nonprofits in Sonoma County. Those who are undecided on which to give to and want to support local community services should consider donating to Healdsburg Forever. (Visit HealdsburgForever.org.)
FLASHBACKS
Wines Are Bottled Here.”
Featuring displays will be the Frozen Food Locker Plant, Plaza Hotel, 339 Club, Vic and Sid’s, Plasberg’s Liquor Store, Fred and John’s, Buffi’s Hotel and Frank Sillano’s.
50 years ago: October 3, 1974
RUSSIANS IN THE VINEYARDS
Everyone knows the French love wine. The Germans are pretty good at making it, too, not to mention the Italians. And there’s no doubt about how well the Americans squeeze grapes. But how many people think of the Russians as interested in wine? Well, after a visit by an 11-man delegation from the Russian agricultural ministry last Saturday, Sonoma Vineyards President Rodney Strong can attest that they are. The occasion was part of a visit to American wine country by L. F. Chaitouro, chief general director of the industry of viniculture, ministry of food (the equivalent of our secretary of agriculture), and other
top wine industry leaders. Sonoma Vineyards was the only county winery included in the Russians’ tour, which also took them to wineries in Napa County and the valley regions. Strong reports the Russians, whose vineyards are mainly in the Crimea, were especially interested in Sonoma’s perma-set
September
system, and double jacketed stainless-steel tanks caught their eye. They also wanted to know as much as possible about treatment of the harvest, particularly what is done to prevent wine from going bad due to clouding, browning and tartrates. The Russians raise some two hundred types of grapes. The 11-man group is the highest-level delegation ever to visit the US from Russia.
The Flashbackers are docents for the Healdsburg Museum. The Healdsburg Museum is open from 11am to 4pm, Wednesday through Sunday, at 221 Matheson St.
MILESTONE Healdsburg Forever has distributed nearly $3 million to dozens of local orgs in the 20 years since it was founded.
Photo by Pierre Ratte
Photos courtesy of the Healdsburg Museum & Historical Society
TOURIST TRAP Buffi’s Inn at the Healdsburg train depot.
FALL RITUAL Crews dismantle the seasonal dam at Memorial Beach in
1961, decades after its first run.
INDUSTRY FOREFATHER Healdsburg wine boss Rodney Strong in his early days as owner of Sonoma Vineyards.
Hounds Lose Close Game in Season Opener
A DISAPPOINTING NIGHT AT REC AFTER EXPLOSIVE NON-DIVISION WINS
By John Linker
In front of a Homecoming crowd gathered for the Healdsburg Greyhounds’ first official league football game of the 2024-25 season, the varsity team fell 13-18 to the San Rafael Bulldogs last Friday night at Rec Park.
The Hounds are coming off a series of exciting non-division games that saw them break their three-year losing streak with three wins and two school records for senior quarterback Nova Perrill II. They took their first loss to Montgomery the week prior—but charged into Friday’s big home game looking sharp, confident and ready. It was a tale of two halves. Hopes were high through the first half as the Hounds held off the Bulldogs to score the game’s only points through halftime. In the first five minutes, the Hounds’ offensive line provided such staunch protection for their quarterback, Perrill, that he put up the first score of the night with an eight-yard pass to a leaping Max Morris in the end zone. Christian Camacho Ruiz landed the extra point, bringing the score to 7-0.
The first half then fell into a steady change of downs between teams. While the Hounds’ offense stalled for the rest of the half, their defense—with the help of some notable tackles by John Wallace and Morris, each with six total—managed to overpower the threatening pass game of the Bulldogs, led by junior quarterback Lachlan Royston and tight end Haden Berlinsky. This
evenly matched, backand-forth play ended the half with the score still at 7-0 for Healdsburg.
After a lively halftime show full of colorful floats and the crowning of royalty for Healdsburg’s Homecoming, the second half of play took a discouraging turn.
San Rafael’s Berlinsky returned the opening kickoff for a whopping 78-yard touchdown. Within 11 seconds of the second half, the score was 7-6. Even though the Bulldogs missed the extra point, this felt like a pivotal moment that turned the tide.
Head coach Criss Rosales didn’t think it was a question of momentum. “It all had to do with failing to make the adjustments we talked about at half time, and failing to execute those adjustments,” he told the Tribune after the game.
Indeed: The Hounds struggled to get anything going in the third quarter, while the Bulldogs played near-perfect football. An interception turnover and a costly penalty soon led to another San Rafael touchdown. After a failed twopoint conversion, the score was still a tight 7-12. With 5 minutes, 20 seconds to go in the third quarter, the Bulldogs took advantage of a thwarted punt by Healdsburg—and from the Hounds’ own 25-yard line, struck again with another touchdown pass by Royston.
The Bulldogs settled into an efficient running game and controlled the clock for the rest of the night. The Hounds rallied back in the fourth quarter, but not until it was too late. With only 45 seconds left in the game, quarterback Perrill connected with Morris again for a 22-yard pass. The missed two-point conversion forced an unsuccessful
onside kick, and the hardfought game ended with a score of 13-18.
Still, since San Rafael is slated as one of the favorites to win the newly formed Mountain Division, the game’s evenly matched play and close score say a lot about how far Healdsburg has come—and how far they might go this season. For the first time in years, the Hounds appear to be league contenders.
This Friday night, Hounds (0-1 league, 3-2 overall) go on the road to play the Novato Hornets (1-0 league, 3-1 overall) at Novato High School at 7pm. Last week against Archie Williams High School, the Hornets showed off an offense that can both successfully run and pass, but won by only three points. Look for another close game.
a particular season, and tasked with dressing up the class float accordingly. Like in years past, school officials judged the floats, and the winners received a certain number of “spirit points” toward an ongoing contest between classes.
The 2024 parade was small but full of lively spirit, teenage enthusiasm and a specific charm that added to the local color of Healdsburg. As our caravan puttered through the borough, kids ran out to visit and wave to the slow-moving spectacle—reminded by their parents of the longstanding tradition, and perhaps treated to stories of when they, themselves, partook of the event.
The highlight of the parade was the circling of the plaza—not once, but twice. Tourists took a
break from their idling and shopping, wine enthusiasts jumped from their cushy tastings, coffee shops emptied in frenzied query and window shoppers turned their gaze to the oncoming show of true Americana in action. All stood witness to the boastful cavalcade.
Driven by teachers and parents, the floats were not only seen, but heard: The seniors sang their own rendition of “Winter Wonderland” while throwing styrofoam snowballs from their winter float. Bubbles scattered. Confetti drifted. And for a short while, the entire town stopped its business to honor and pay tribute to its students.
Each year, Healdsburg’s annual Homecoming Parade presses pause on everyone’s busy life. Even for just a few minutes, we all stop to enjoy a moment of fun-filled spectacle and perhaps a bit of reflection on what really counts. And for this former
teacher, the moment was filled with joy and nostalgia. I visited my beloved Healdsburg High School that night for the first time since cleaning out my classroom in June. I saw the excited recognition in familiar young faces who sat in my room for one, two, even three years—and, music to my ears, I heard the chorus of “Linker!” as they spied me in the passenger seat of a big, glitzy truck.
Ms. Ruiz, a Wisconsin transplant, is in her eighth year of teaching at Healdsburg High. “This parade is one of my favorite things about Healdsburg,” she said on Friday. “It gives the tourists something to wonder about. These floats are the best I’ve seen!”
The seniors won this year’s competition with their winter float—adorned and outlined with silver and blue Christmas lights. The sophomores, who built an autumnal atmosphere with a backdrop of fall colors and
a trailing cloud from a fog machine, came in second.
During halftime at the football game, Homecoming royalty in the parade jumped onto the field from their latest-model chariots— the likes of Chevrolet trucks and Cherokee Jeeps, kindly
donated for the event—to claim their crowns. This year’s Homecoming court is as follows: Freshmen: CeCe Michener and Pierce McWilliams
• Sophomores: Preston Saulsberry
Juniors: Addison Terhune and Vinny Loupy
Seniors: Jennifer Sanchez Castro and Luis Montoya Caballero Well done, HHS.
Photos by Joe Rowland
OUTNUMBERED Healdsburg High School sophomore Frank Rea (2) leaves it all on the field during a Sept. 27 home game against San Rafael.
GAME FACE Healdsburg senior Nathaniel Rowland has been a key defensive player so far this season.
Photo by Joe Rowland
ENDLESS SUMMER The junior class float—an ode to warmer weather.
TIPPING POINT
ideological, but most about the street’s parking problems and cacophony of tangled traffic, which they fear will get worse.
Foss is a unique street in town. A one-way alley of sorts that runs parallel to Healdsburg Avenue for a single block, it causes all kinds of confusion among drivers looking for parking. It may very well be the only street in Healdsburg that has ever been compared to New York City.
At the tasting-room hearing, Foss Street resident Charlene Schnall challenged planning commissioners to come watch the circus. “You have RVs, you have trucks, you have cars—all day long, backing up,” she said. “And then you have other trucks and other cars turning because they don’t know it’s a dead-end street. It’s a joke. I think before you approve this, you owe it to us, as people that live there, to come look at that street and figure out how to accommodate safety. If you don’t do that, I don’t think you’re doing your job.”
Threads about the tasting-room proposal in the “What’s Happening Healdsburg” and “Beverly Healdsburg” Facebook groups have racked up more than 100 comments since neighbors found out about it. Some locals are throwing around words like “travesty.”
Others argue that another nice indie wine spot might be better than a big gray warehouse. A few city
planning commissioners, too, suggested at the hearing that this proposal could be a good thing for the neighborhood.
Cohen, the architect, argued: “Part of the hope is that it will replace what’s really an underutilized space in the downtown to have a warehouse with something that’s more pedestrian-oriented that will hopefully draw people
down Foss Street and activate the street a little bit.” His designs are rather low-key, compared to some of the big developer ideas passing across the desk of the Healdsburg
City Planning Commission lately—including major downtown hotels and, indeed, other tasting rooms, like one that Stressed Vines Cellars just opened further south on Healdsburg
LEGAL NOTICES
puede pagar a un abogado, es posible que cumpla con los requisitos para obtener servicios legales gratuitos de un programa de servicios legales sin fines de lucro. Puede encontrar estos grupos sin fines de lucro en el sitio web de California Legal Services, (https://link.edgepilot.com/s/ cac2aadb/GJ85plLoX02vBCJD44H_ CQ?u=http://www.lawhelpcalifornia. org/), en el Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes de California, (https:// link.edgepilot.com/s/6a4483c2/ DE5IarO2FkGwNDy3u2wmyg?u=http:// www.sucorte.ca.gov/) o poniéndose en contacto con la corte o el colegio de abogados locales. AVISO: Por ley, la corte tiene derecho a reclamar las cuotas y los costos exentos por imponer un gravamen sobre cualquier recuperación de $10,000 ó más de valor recibida mediante un acuerdo o una concesión de arbitraje en un caso de derecho civil. Tiene que pagar el gravamen de la corte antes de que la corte pueda desechar el caso. The name and address of the court is (El nombre y dirección de la corte es): SACRAMENTO COUNTY SUPERIOR COURT 720 NINTH STREET, SACRAMENTO, CA 95814
The name, address, and telephone number of plaintiff’s attorney, or plaintiff without an attorney, is: (El nombre, la dirección y el número de teléfono del abogado del demandante, o del demandante que no tiene abogado, es): Matt R Young, Matt Young Law, PC, 1111 Howe Ave, Suite 150, Sacramento, CA 95825, (916) 898-2282 ,DATE (Fecha): APRIL 18, 2024. Clerk, by (Secretario) B. PRASAD,Deputy (Adjunto). (Publication Dates: SEPTEMBER 12, 19, 26, OCTOBER 3 of 2024 Healdsburg Tribune) Statement of Damages(Personal Injury or Wrongful Death) Case Number (24CV007637) MATT YOUNG LAW, PC, MATT YOUNG, ESQ. (SBN 247622), 111 HOWE AVENUE, SUITE 150, SACRAMENTO, CA 95825 (916) 898-2282 ATTORNEY FOR:Plaintiff, MARINA ESTABROOK SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SACRAMENTO, 720 9TH STREET, SACRAMENTO, 95814, BRANCH NAME: GORDON D. SCHABER
PLAINTIFF: MARINA ESTABROOK DEFENDANT: ANGELA ROSE KETELHUT STATEMENT OF DAMAGES (Personal Injury or Wrongful Death) To: ANGELA ROSE KETELHUT (name of one defendant only): Plaintiff: MARINA ESTABROOK (name of one plaintiff only): seeks damages in the above-entitled action, as follows:
1. General damages a. Pain, suffering, and inconvenience $145,000.00
2. Special damages a. Medical Expenses (to Date) $22,569.41 Date: AUGUST 19, 2024 MATT YOUNG, ESQ. (Publication Dates: SEPTEMBER 12, 19, 26, OCTOBER 3 of 2024 THE HEALDSBURG TRIBUNE)
under the fictitious name or names above on N/A. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. Signed:JACK MCLAUGHLIN, PROP. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Sonoma County on August 29, 2024. (Publication Dates SEPTEMBER 12, 19, 26, October 3 of 2024 The Healdsburg Tribune).
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT - FILE NO: 202402422 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: 1. CK SKIN STUDIO, 624 PARKSIDE DR, SANTA ROSA, CA 95404, COUNTY SONOMA: Is hereby registered by the following owner(s): CHRISTINE K WHITE, 624 PARKSIDE DR, SANTA ROSA, CA 95404: This business is being conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious name or names above on N/A. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. Signed: CHRISTINE K WHITE. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Sonoma County on AUGUST 21, 2024. (Publication Dates SEPTEMBER 12, 19, 26, October 3 of 2024 The Healdsburg Tribune).
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT - FILE NO: 202402761 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: 1. WORLD SERIOUS, 2. WORLDSERIOUS.NET, 48 MERRILL ST, GEYSERVILLE, CA 95441, COUNTY SONOMA: Is hereby registered by the following owner(s): RANDALL WARREN QUICK, P.O. BOX 577, GEYSERVILLE, CA 95441: This business is being conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious name or names above on 07/12/2024. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. Signed: RANDALL QUICK, OWNER. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Sonoma County on SEPTEMBER 03, 2024. (Publication Dates SEPTEMBER, 19, 26, October 3, 10 of 2024 The Healdsburg Tribune).
estos formularios de la corte y más información en el Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes de California (https:// link.edgepilot.com/s/6a4483c2/ DE5IarO2FkGwNDy3u2wmyg?u=http:// www.sucorte.ca.gov/), en la biblioteca de leyes de su condado o en la corte que le quede más cerca. Si no puede pagar la cuota de presentación, pida al secretario de la corte que le dé un formulario de exención de pago de cuotas. Si no presenta su respuesta a tiempo, puede perder el caso por incumplimiento y la corte le podrá quitar su sueldo, dinero y bienes sin más advertencia. Hay otros requisitos legales. Es recomendable que llame a un abogado inmediatamente. Si no conoce a un abogado, puede llamar a un servicio de remisión a abogados. Si no
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT - FILE NO: 202402422 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: 1. NUMEDICINES INTERNATIONAL, 5650 VOLKERTS RD, SEBASTOPOL, CA 95472, COUNTY SONOMA: Is hereby registered by the following owner(s): SONA CUPPOVA, 5650 VOLKERTS RD, SEBASTOPOL, CA 95472: This business is being conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious name or names above on N/A. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. Signed: SONA CUPPOVA, OWNER. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Sonoma County on July 29, 2024. (Publication Dates SEPTEMBER 12, 19, 26, October 3 of 2024 The Healdsburg Tribune).
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT - FILE NO: 202402733 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: 1. JACKINFRANCE.COM, 2. GOOD-AGENT.COM, 729 I STREET, PETALUMA, CA 94952, COUNTY SONOMA. Is hereby registered by the following owner(s): JACK MCLAUGHLIN, 729 I STREET, PETALUMA, CA 94952: This business is being conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL. The registrant commenced to transact business
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT - FILE NO: 202402923 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: 1. CAST WINES, 8500 DRY CREEK ROAD, GEYSERVILLE, CA 95441, COUNTY SONOMA: MAILING ADDRESS: PO BOX 310, GEYSERVILLE, CA 95441: Is hereby registered by the following owner(s): 8500 DRY CREEK ROAD LLC, PO BOX 310, GEYSERVILLE, CA 95441: This business is being conducted by A LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious name or names above on 07/12/2024. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. Signed: JOHN A SEIFRICK PRESIDENT. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Sonoma County on SEPTEMBER 18, 2024. (Publication Dates SEPTEMBER 26, October 3, 10, 17 of 2024 The Healdsburg Tribune).
A petition for probate has been filed by SIGIFREDO A. LERMA JR, in the Superior Court of California, County of SONOMA. The petition for probate requests that SIGIFREDO A. LERMA JR be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of decedent. The petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act, (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.
A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: at 9:30 a.m. on Novermber 01, 2024, Dept. 23, Sonoma County Superior Court, Probate Division, 3055 Cleveland Ave., Santa Rosa, CA 95403. To join online, go to Zoom.us/join Or by phone, Dial 1-669-254-5252, Meeting ID: 160 825 4529 Passcode: 611386
IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.
IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR OR A CONTINGENT CREDITOR OF THE DECEDENT you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in subdivision (b) of Section 58 of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of delivery of the notice to you under Section 9052 of the California Probate Code. OTHER CALIFORNIA STATUTES AND LEGAL AUTHORITY MAY AFFECT YOUR RIGHTS AS A CREDITOR. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law. YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT - FILE NO: 202402941 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: 1. GROUNDED CORE, 8961 OAK GROVE AVE, SEBASTOPOL, CA 95472, COUNTY SONOMA: MAILING ADDRESS: SAME: Is hereby registered by the following owner(s): MICAH A. LOVE, 8961 OAK GROVE AVE, SEBASTOPOL, CA 95472: This business is being conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious name or names above on N/A. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. Signed: MICAH A LOVE, FOUNDER. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Sonoma County on SEPTEMBER 20, 2024. (Publication Dates SEPTEMBER 26, October 3, 10, 17 of 2024 The Healdsburg Tribune). FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT - FILE NO: 202402932 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: 1. OTORO, 1280 HEALDSBURG AVE #101, CA 95448, COUNTY SONOMA: MAILING ADDRESS: SAME: Is hereby registered by the following owner(s): WOOMEE, INC., 1280 HEALDSBURG AVE #101, CA 95448: This business is being conducted by A CORPORATION. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious name or names above on 06/2018 I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. Signed: MICAH A LOVE, FOUNDER. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Sonoma County on SEPTEMBER 19, 2024. (Publication Dates SEPTEMBER 26, October 3, 10, 17 of 2024 The Healdsburg Tribune). NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF DELBERT LUIS LERMA, CASE NO. 24PR00606 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, and contingent creditors, and persons who may be otherwise interested in the will or estate, or both of NATIONAL MORTAGE LLC., D/B/A/ MR. COOPER:
Avenue, near the roundabout. But with Foss Street’s quirks in the mix and Ramos Shoe Repair on the line, all eyes are on tasting room No. 28 right now. Your move, Garrett’s.
LEGACY Jorge Ramos, 67, still uses many of his dad’s machines from the original Ramos Shoe Repair shop that opened on Plaza Street in the ’70s. Jorge moved the shop a few blocks over in the ’90s because of rising rent.
Photo by Simone Wilson
Photo courtesy of Patti Ramos-Hurtado
PATRIARCH Healdsburg immigrant Demetrio Ramos began
Monterrey, Mexico,
son. He later became a pioneering Latino business owner here in town.
Spotlight: Healdsburg Arts Festival ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
Staff Report
The growing, annual Healdsburg Arts Festival took over the Plaza for what organizers believe to be its 10th year last Saturday. An estimated 500-plus people showed up to peruse the 50 booths that artists set up that day to show off and sell their paintings, sculptures, jewelry, woodworks, metal art, ceramics, glass works and fiber-arts creations like hats and felt flowers. A poet was even present, writing poems for attendees in real time.
Pumping live music from the Plaza gazebo during the event were the Healdsburg Ukulele Club, the Trad Jass Jammers and Moon Alley Music.
And on hand to feed the masses were Gino’s Greek Food, Crepes du Jour and the Downtown Bakery’s famous pizza bus. Kathy Birdsong of the Healdsburg Center for the Arts, the event’s main organizer, says that “art vendors were so happy with the turnout” and “all had a successful day in terms of sales and contacts.” She adds:
“We have received dozens of thank you’s from the vendors, including comments about how beautiful it was, how friendly everybody was and how helpful our volunteers were. Although planning took months of hard work, we left feeling uplifted.”
Shorts Fest Opens Portal to Dozens of Little Worlds
HEALDSBURG’S OWN RAVEN
THEATER: BETTER THAN TIKTOK?
By Simone Wilson
Just steps from the Healdsburg Arts Festival over the weekend, behind the doors of the Raven Theater on North Street, another local festival with an almost cult-like following in the hundreds played out behind the scenes: the Healdsburg International Short Film Festival. Signs around town of these loyalists were subtle—a blue
festival pass tucked inside a shirt collar, or a program splayed open on the bar at Duke’s or John & Zeke’s between screenings. Those in the know, knew. The event kicked off with a champagne soiree and a screening of around 10 short films on Friday night, then spilled into Saturday and Sunday with three more two-hour screening sets each day, for a total of 44 films from 18 countries—France, Jamaica, Ghana, Italy, Australia and more. Some movies were just minutes long; each opened a door
to an entire world outside Healdsburg.
“It’s hard to talk, actually, after that,” host Karin Demarest said at the end of Night One. “What an amazing evening.” The audience grunted back in agreement, still dazed and transported. Festival curators whittled down the selection of 44 from an original 500 submissions, and their final pool contained many more hits than misses.
A couple of the hits even originated from the small nation of Sonoma County. One of those, a combination of live action and animation called Moving Day that followed the Toy Story -esque adventures of a Sharpie scribble on a cardboard box, won the festival’s new “Cinematic Trailblazer Award,” a nod to its bang-for-budget factor. Petaluma filmmaker Sean Mirkovich won $500 in prize money, donated by the Taste of Tea restaurant next door.
Another big winner: The Diamond , a bizarro friendship journey from Sweden, took the weekend’s Grand Prize, as determined by a panel of remote celebrity jurors that included actor Ed Begley Jr. and everyone’s favorite local underground rockstar, Tom Waits.
(Waits himself has played the Raven in years past, for those lucky enough to catch him, and used to run
with the theater’s founders. It’s the kind of lore that feels thick in the dark when the lights go off.)
The two audience favorites at the short film festival this year, chosen by theatergoers via QR code at the end of each screening, were Once More, Like Rainman, following a young autistic actress to one typecasting audition after another, and Jerome , a portrait of an inner-city Black kid struggling in the absence of his father.
Among this particular audience member’s least favorite films were the interspersed music videos, some of which would have been skip-able on YouTube—a throwaway vibe that seemed out of place among the other mini masterpieces.
Festival organizers have time and space to perfect the format. They put on their first short film festival in Bodega Bay in 2011, according to organizer Pamela Demorest, then moved it to the unlikely film-crazy town of Healdsburg in 2012. Last year, the festival made a triumphant return to the Raven for its largest run yet, and grew even larger this year. Organizers say it will now become a regular annual event at the Raven—our yearly portal to life outside the bubble.
has no place in our town. I totally agree. But there’s just one problem. That argument is a red herring. Measure O has no impact on zoning density. It protects our downtown and existing residential areas from overdevelopment and makes absolutely no changes to our zoning or allowed density. With Measure O we have a simple, thoughtful and focused approach to housing policy that is informed by years of public input. There is no fine print or hidden agendas. For those community members seeking a civil discourse without rumors of “land grabs” or “superdensity,” the city website explains what Measure O does in plain, straightforward language. (Visit Healdsburg.gov/1126/ Measure-O.)
Please, before you vote, learn the facts. Talk with the housing experts. Measure O is founded on solid principles that are in tune with our small-town character, our concerns about water and climate, and our desire to address the very real
housing needs of our fellow residents. For these reasons, Measure O is endorsed by Corazón Healdsburg, Generation Housing, the Sonoma County Democratic Party, Reach for Home and State Sen. Mike McGuire. It deserves your support and your vote! Make no mistake—fixing Healdsburg’s housing crunch is a long process, and it will not happen overnight. As a county planning commissioner, I know the challenges we face, the hurdles to housing and the pace at which projects make their way through the planning process. I am certain
that even with the planning tools permitted by Measure O, this will not be “too much too fast.” There is still much work to be done to create a Healdsburg with housing we can all afford, and we will not get there without Measure O.
Shaun McCaffery has lived in Healdsburg for 21 years. He served on the Healdsburg City Council from 2012 to 2020, sits on the board of Reach for Home and currently serves as chair of the Sonoma County Planning Commission.
Photo by Rick Tang
PLAZA PARTY Local painter Valerie Pustorino speaks with Healdsburg Arts Festival attendees near her booth.
TRAILBLAZER Festival jurors thought the low-budget
MR. HEALDSBURG Festival emcee Conrad Cecil steals the show at the International Short Film Festival with his Shakespearean flair and infectious love of theater and cinema.
CRIMES AND CONCERNS REPORTED TO HEALDSBURG POLICE
Residents and others are encouraged to call Police Dispatch as needed at (707) 431-3377, operational 24/7
Monday, Sept. 16
3:21am The Reporting Party (RP) on March Avenue stated that his vehicle was stolen. The FLOCK license plate camera system indicated that the vehicle was headed southbound on Hwy 101 at 2:25am. On Sept. 19 at 9:04am, the vehicle was recovered on Fourth Street in Santa Rosa by Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office. It was returned to the registered owner.
4:39pm The RP on Grove Street stated that a man violated a restraining order by contacting the RP through Facebook. A report was taken.
4:54pm The RP indicated there was a reckless driver headed northbound on Center Street driving erratically and following the RP. Officers were advised to be on the lookout for the vehicle.
8pm The RP at Safeway on Vine Street indicated a person inside the store left with a bottle of alcohol.
Officers responded and arrested a 40-Year-Old (YO) man for violating probation, shoplifting, and destroying and concealing evidence. He was transported to county jail.
Tuesday, Sept. 17
8:30am The RP on Canyon Run indicated that a man violated a restraining order by speaking to the RP about topics other than their daughter and visitations. An officer responded and took a report.
9:10am A tenant at the
Canyon Run Apartments on Canyon Run disturbed management by banging on the management’s window, screaming and calling them inept. The RP wanted to press charges. Officers responded and contacted management and the suspect. An incident number was provided to the RP.
• 1:25pm A vehicle on Lytton Springs Road was stopped for speeding and having defective brake lights. A 52-YO man was arrested for being a felon in possession of ammunition, possession of methamphetamine, possession of drug paraphernalia and on outstanding Sonoma County warrants regarding possession of drug paraphernalia, possession of methamphetamine, and assault and battery. He was taken to county jail.
• 5:41pm A transient on Healdsburg Avenue harassed workers and customers and refused to leave. Officers responded and released the man after counseling him.
• 7:07pm Petty theft occurred at Safeway on Vine Street. A man stole $100 worth of food from the delicatessen. The RP wanted to press charges. Officers responded and took a report.
• 11:24pm A vehicle on Grove Street was stopped for a non-working headlight and no front license plate. A 47-YO man was cited and released for possession of drug paraphernalia and possession of illegal fireworks without permission.
Wednesday, Sept. 18
4:12pm The RP on Healdsburg Avenue stated a man came into the business repeatedly and disturbed employees and customers. Officers responded and located the man in front of Big John’s Market. Officers determined no crime at that time had been committed.
5:14pm An unwanted
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man was on the property of L&M Motel on Healdsburg Avenue. He was subsequently across the street in his vehicle continuously honking his horn, then yelling and circling the property in the vehicle. Officers responded and provided management with no trespass documentation.
5:51pm A man who did not appear to be moving was on the ground at Alley 4 at Fitch Street. Officers responded and transported the man to Healdsburg General Hospital.
Thursday, Sept. 19
3:51pm Petty theft of a $20 wallet occurred on Healdsburg Avenue. The RP planned to contact the owner of the store to determine if the person wanted to press charges.
The RP was provided an incident number.
• 10:09pm A fireworks violation occurred on March Avenue.
10:54pm An officer contacted two people at Healdsburg Food Pantry on Healdsburg Avenue. A 52-YO woman was cited on an outstanding Sonoma County warrant regarding failure to appear in court and depositing debris near water.
Friday, Sept. 20
1:03pm A man at Healdsburg Chevrolet on Healdsburg Avenue yelled toward the business but not at anyone directly. He had a bottle in a bag and acted as though he would throw the bottle. Officers responded.
The RP requested that the man be removed from the property. The man was advised he would be trespassed if he returned to the business. Trespass paperwork was processed.
2:04pm A fraud occurred at Safeway on Vine Street.
The RP tried to help his friend fly from Indianapolis to California and bought an Amazon gift card to help with the cost of the plane
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ticket. The RP’s friend stated that the gift card was already used when he gave her the information. An officer advised the RP that the whole interaction was a scam.
3:40pm Approximately 10 men beat up one man at the 7 Eleven on Healdsburg Avenue. Five suspects fled in a vehicle southbound.
The victim left the scene in another vehicle before officers arrived. Both vehicles were entered into the FLOCK license plate reader system. After being located, the victim declined medical assistance and declined to press charges.
Saturday, Sept. 21
• 2:33pm The RP, a driver with Sonoma County Transit, had an issue with a passenger at Safeway on Vine Street. The passenger hit the driver with a flower. The victim wanted to press charges. A 71-YO woman was cited and released for battery.
• 4:41pm A violation of a court order occurred on Foothill
4:56pm The RP at Healdsburg Liquors on Center Street indicated he tried to redeem
and threw the
Sunday, Sept. 22
Photo by Christian Kallen
STATION The Healdsburg Police Department is located at 238 Center St. The lobby is open 7am to 7pm daily.