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CITY COUNCIL SPLITS ON NEW APPOINTMENT BACKS NOVEMBER SPECIAL ELECTION By Christian Kallen
➝ Council Conundrum, 4
Photo courtesy Healdsburg Parks & Recreation
The Healdsburg City Council held its first meeting as a four-member board on May 16 in the wake of Skylaer Palacios’ surprise resignation from the council on May 2. Naturally, the agenda included a discussion on how to fill that seat—or whether to fill it at all in the short term and just to let the voters decide in November who will take over the remaining two years of her term. Although city staff presented the council with two options, both led to a “special election” later this year to complete Palacios’ term until 2024. But the option to make a temporary appointment until that election was left on the table by the council, which deadlocked on the value of making such a short-term appointment. Councilmember Evelyn Mitchell said she saw “very little upside to appointing someone in the short term,” citing the complexity and time required to “onboard” a new councilmember. “This council really works well together; if you look at our voting record, we’re mostly in agreement on many issues,” she said. “I am also somewhat concerned that if we appointed someone, it would sort of anoint them. It would be us putting our thumb on the scale of who gets elected, which I don’t think would be appropriate...” Despite Mitchell’s optimistic portrayal of the current four members’ ability to work together, they could not agree to appoint a council member or to even take in applications to evaluate the field. The council—Mayor Ozzie Jimenez, Councilmember David Hagele and Mitchell from the dais, and Vice Mayor Ariel Kelly via Zoom—discussed it for some time, yet none of them changed their minds, and the result was a 2-2 split.
REAL DEAL The Real Sarahs return to Healdsburg Plaza on Sunday, July 10, as part of the city’s regular Sundays in the Plaza music series.
Sundays in the Plaza
CITY SCHEDULES EVENTS THROUGH AUGUST By Christian Kallen
Jazz and blues, folk and country, and a little bit of rock’n’roll—that’s the promise of the Sunday in the Plaza music lineup, as announced by the City of Healdsburg Parks Department last week. Performers will be on hand for 11 Sundays, from June 5 to Aug. 14 in these free shows in Plaza Park, from 1 to 4pm. Unlike the Tuesdays in the Plaza, the Sunday programs are picnicfocused—no alcohol is permitted or sold in the city park, and the performing groups are more of the “unplugged” variety,
emphasizing acoustic music—bluegrass, folk, jazz and Americana, a broad genre that includes almost everything else. The weekend series starts the first Sunday in June, when the multi-generational Healdsburg Community Band (HCB) takes the Gazebo stage at 1pm. The all-volunteer, nonprofit organization has been sharing big band, classical and pop arrangements with the community for 40 years, since 1982, including several previous appearances at Sundays in the Plaza. Conductor Tim Ellis will direct the 45-member band in this event sponsored by Healdsburg Community Service. June 12, the following Sunday, finds Brotherly
Mud on stage, an Auburnbased quartet of bluegrass and folk performers who claim to be “the next generation of Americana” and have earned frequent comparisons to Simon & Garfunkel and CSNY. The next Sunday is Juneteenth, and Healdsburg Jazz concludes its sixday festival at the Healdsburg Plaza with a special five-hour (11am-4pm) celebration of the wide range of Black music and art. Performers will include Willie Jones III Quintet, MJ’s Brass Boppers, the Curtis Family C-notes, and poets Enid Pickett and Kamau Daáood, as well as educational areas, vendors and more. The Juneteenth Celebration is sponsored by Healdsburg Community Services.
On June 26, Drew Harrison wraps up June’s Sundays in the Plaza with some Beatles, brought to life by the Bay Area singer/ songwriter. Harrison is the voice of John Lennon in the successful Beatles tribute band, The Sun Kings, and delivers many Beatles favorites, as well as a few of his own songs.
For more information, see www.ci. healdsburg.ca.us.
Upcoming Plaza Performers July 3: Hannah Jern-Miller (Folk/Bluegrass) July 10: The Real Sarahs (Acoustic Americana) July 17: Muleskinner Stomp (Bluegrass) July 24: Little Muddy (R&B/Country/Classic Rock) July 31: Spike Sikes & His Awsome Hotcakes (Jazz/Soul) Aug. 7: Speakeasies (Jazz) Aug. 14: David Correa Trio (Latin)
MARK YOUR CALENDAR WITH MUSIC UPCOMING EVENTS NOT TO MISS Photo courtesy of Petty Theft.
STEAL Petty Theft is a Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers tribute act.
Not to be confused with Tuesdays in the Plaza, Sundays in the Plaza is an opportunity to bring a picnic, sit back, relax and enjoy the melodies. Reminder: no alcohol is permitted during these Sunday concerts.
By Daedalus Howell
To misquote Julie Andrews, “The vineyards are alive with the sound of music.” At least that’s what those venturing anywhere near Healdsburg
and its surrounding environs might think. Below is a sneak peek at some of the many musical offerings coming to the area in the following weeks.
Windsor Summer Nights on the Green Windsor’s annual spate of musical programming kicks off Thursday, June 2 with Foreverland, which is billed as “The Electrifying Tribute to Michael Jackson.” What’s germane is that the band isn’t a ➝ Music Calendar, 5