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HEALDSBURG LEADS THE COUNTY IN HOME VALUE INCREASES
Healdsburg, California Healdsburg, California
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PROPERTY MORE VALUABLE, YET LESS AFFORDABLE THAN EVER By Dan Pulcrano
The good news for homeowners: your house value went up. The bad news: your property taxes did too.
Photos by Ray Mabry Photography
TAXES UP Assessor Deva
Marie Proto released the 2022-23 assessments.
Healdsburg’s red hot real estate market led the county, shooting up at more than twice the Sonoma County average, making property here more valuable and at the same time even less affordable than before. The numbers were contained in the 202223 Assessment Roll prepared by Sonoma County Clerk-RecorderAssessor Deva Marie Proto. Overall, properties rose by 6.46%, according to the assessment roll. The City of Healdsburg experienced the county’s largest increase: 13.6%. Properties countywide are at an all time record of $108 billion, reflecting the assessed value of all real and business property as of Jan. 1, 2022. According to the real estate service Zillow, the average home in Healdsburg cost $1,148,305 in June. It pegged the yearover-year increase at 14%. ➝ Home Values, 3
CAST-AWAYS Dan Stryker, Troy Thomas Evans and Hunter Scribner give a toast to ‘Twelfth Night,’
at West Plaza Park three days a week until Aug. 6.
Shakespeare in Pronouns
NINE NIGHTS OF OPEN-AIR ‘TWELFTH NIGHT’ STARTS JULY 21 By Christian Kallen
The world’s most popular playwright brings another show to Healdsburg this month—a fourweek run of Twelfth Night, by William Shakespeare. The comedy is one of several of Shakespeare’s that includes gendershifting characters, which adds both to the comedy
and the modernity of the play. The Raven Players, under the direction of Steven David Martin, intend to double-down on the artifice in some way, as this production is fully titled Twelfth Night (with a twist). As in several of the Bard’s plays, its elements include love, lust, mistaken identity and bawdy humor—which means its real subject is true love. This production is updated from its original setting in Illyria (on the Aegean Sea) and set in the Roaring ’20s of just a
century ago, with period music and dance. Shakespeare continues to provide inspiration and material for small theater groups like the Raven Players. Last summer, they produced The Complete William Shakespeare (Abridged), a fast-moving parody of all Shakespeare’s plays, at the same venue, West Plaza Park. Earlier this year, the Raven Players produced The Book of Will at the Raven Theater on North Street. Again directed by Martin—who also nailed
down a lead role—the play by Lauren Gunderson dramatized the collection of Shakespeare’s plays and scripts in the years following his death, leading to the 1623 publication of the First Folio. That influential compilation included 36 plays, among them Twelfth Night. The performance’s cast includes Dan Stryker, Troy Thomas Evans, Hunter Scribner, Jeanette Seisdedos and Katie Watts-Whitaker. Performances begin at 7:30pm at West Plaza Park in Healdsburg, on
Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays through Aug. 6. There are no matinees and no Sunday performances. The park is located in the green behind what was formerly the Bear Republic, along Foss Creek. “This production is free to attend (thanks in large part to Barbara Grasseschi and Tony Crabb),” said Raven Performing Arts Theater director Tom Brand. “So, folks can bring lawn chairs and blankets.” As the play is performed during sunset hours, layered clothing is also suggested.
WITH THREE OPEN SEATS, MAJORITY OF COUNCIL IS UP FOR GRABS CANDIDATES WILL BE ON THE NOVEMBER BALLOT By Christian Kallen File Photos
There has never been a better time for local residents to think about participating in local democracy. In the Nov. 8 general election, three Healdsburg City Council seats will be on the ballot: two four-year terms and a two-year term to fill the remainder of Skylaer Palacios’ term. Palacios resigned in May, and the council decided to continue with only four members until the election.
MITCHELL: Seeking reelection This unexpected decision broke recent precedent. The last time a city council member resigned, the open seat was filled by appointment. Usually, terms are for four years, and alternate general elections have either two or three terms open. The seats currently
JIMENEZ: Still deciding
held by Evelyn Mitchell and Osvaldo (Ozzy) Jimenez will be the fouryear terms. Mitchell was elected in 2018 and has confirmed she will seek re-election, debuting her campaign in this year’s Twilight Parade. Incumbent Jimenez, currently serving as
PALACIOS: Resigned
Healdsburg’s mayor, was appointed to the seat he holds. He is filling out the four-year term won by Leah Gold in the 2018 election. When Gold resigned in mid-2020 amidst racial justice controversies, she recommended that a “person of color” succeed her, and
Jimenez was selected to fill out the four-year term. Jimenez has not yet declared whether or not he will run for the council seat, despite several inquiries from the Tribune, saying in an email, “I’m withholding my announcement until I ➝ Council Seats, 2