🌱 Deadly Fire On Prince + New Healdsburg Beer Garden + Timber Crook?

Now, your weekend weather:

• Saturday: Mostly sunny and hot. Some more strong winds possible. High: 92 Low: 61.
• Sunday: Cooling down, with clouds and even a chance of rain in the morning! Otherwise mostly sunny and breezy. High: 73 Low: 49.
• Monday: Plenty of sunshine. High: 78 Low: 48.

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Air over Healdsburg:

Here are the top 3 stories in Healdsburg today:

1. A fatal house fire in central Healdsburg early Thursday morning killed one person and several pets (three cats and four birds), according to the Healdsburg Fire Department. Our fire chief says it was a “chaotic scene." The house that burned is a small blue one on Prince Street between Grant and Piper. From the Press Democrat: "The burning home sits on a narrow residential street in the central part of town. An apartment building behind the home was evacuated but there was otherwise no damage to nearby property. The deceased person was among six people living at the home. The other five were outside when firefighters arrived, Division Chief and Fire Marshal Lance Macdonald said." When firefighters went inside, they reportedly found another resident and the seven pets already dead, but were able to save one dog and one cat. A local firefighter suffered minor burns during the rescue, but he's doing OK. Fire officials say "the cause of this fire is still under investigation and the victim's identity will be released when all family members have been notified." (Healdsburg Patch & Press Democrat; paywall)
2. The Press Democrat has a new, two-part exposé on a "Healdsburg timber operator" whose "checkered land-use history followed him to Sonoma County." The story begins: "To hear Ken Bareilles tell it, the worst thing to happen on his land west of Healdsburg since the 2020 Walbridge Fire was the felling of charred Douglas fir trees that now lie on the ground, dried and cracking, because there’s so little demand at the mills. To hear his neighbors tell it, the worst thing to happen since the Walbridge Fire has been Ken Bareilles. It’s not just the neighbors. He’s seen as a bad actor by environmental watchdogs, regulators and others who have watched his emergency timber operation unfold on 106 acres in the sensitive Felta Creek watershed. Set among lush redwoods and ferns, the creek is a last refuge for endangered coho salmon." Read the full investigation here. (Press Democrat & Press Democrat; paywall)
3. A new beer garden is growing in Healdsburg, and it could open to be public as soon as Fourth of July. Fogbelt Station, the newest location of Santa Rosa's Fogbelt Brewery, will be located in what the Tribune is calling "Healdsburg’s very own Depot District... along the tracks between Old Roma Station and the Healdsburg Depot" next to the river. It will reportedly serve "light beers, dark beers, IPAs, stouts [and] lagers" — along with "beer-compatible food" from "a different menu than what’s available in Santa Rosa" — outdoors along Hudson Street, "where several tables will be set up beneath a large wood pergola." And "additional seating will be on the track side of the red Great Northern Railway caboose, which adds to the 'station' atmosphere." Some more backstory from the Trib: "Paul Hawley and Remy Martin established Fogbelt Brewery in 2013 after several years in the wine business—appropriately, as Paul’s father is John Hawley, whose own tasting room is downtown, and Remy’s dad is Dennis Martin, longtime winemaker at Fetzer. Both are also Healdsburg High graduates, and they worked a season together as wine interns." The caboose itself has a pretty great backstory, too. Click through for the full scoop! (Healdsburg Tribune)

This weekend in Healdsburg:

Saturday, June 11

• Healdsburg Saturday Farmers Market (8:30AM-12PM)
• 8th Annual Velo & Vines Cycling Fundraiser at Arnot-Roberts Winery (9AM)
• Eat Drink Experience Alexander Valley: An Adventure in Food & Wine (June 11-12, 10AM & 2PM)
• COVID-19 Vaccine Clinic at Healdsburg Elementary's Fitch Mountain Campus (10AM-2PM)
• Final Weekend: "Art at the Source" Open Studios, Featuring 5 Healdsburg Artists (June 11-12, 10AM-5PM)
• Read to a Dog at Healdsburg Library (11AM-12PM)
• National Rosé Day Celebration at Bacchus Landing, Feat. Yacht Theme & Live DJ (12-4PM)
• HHS Class of 1967 Reunion at Lake Sonoma (12-6PM)
• Beatles Cover Band The Sun Kings Live at Dry Creek Vineyard (1PM)
• Young at Heart Theatre Production of "The Wizard of Oz" at the Raven Theater (2PM, 7:30PM)
• Monica Da Silva Live at Artista Winery (4PM)
• Live Music Outside Selby Winey Tasting Room on Center Street, Feat. Adam Lieb (4-6PM)
• Americana Festival at Rodney Strong Vineyards, Feat. The Highway Poets (5-7PM)
• John MacKay Trio Jazz Performance at Hotel Healdsburg (5-8PM)
• Healdsburg Prune Packers Baseball Game at Rec Park Vs. San Francisco Seals (6PM)
• Healdsburg Running Company Theater Night: Meet for Drinks & Walk Over to Raven Play (6PM)
• Opening Reception for New Art Exhibit at Gallery Lulo: "Selected Murmurations - Twirling Birds and Wild Creatures," Laine Justice (6-8PM)
• DJ Dance Party at Coyote Sonoma (8PM-12AM)

Sunday, June 12

• Sip & Savor Sundays at Bacchus Landing, Featuring Food Truck (12-4PM)
• Sundays in the Plaza, Featuring Americana/Folk Band Brotherly Mud (1-3PM)
• Young at Heart Theatre Production of "The Wizard of Oz" at the Raven Theater (2PM)
• Sunday School at Idlewild Wines Tasting Room: Mediterranean Island Wines (4-6PM)
• Free "Second Sunday" Pipe-Organ Concert at St. Paul's Episcopal Church (5PM)

Monday, June 13

• Week 1 of Summer Art Camp at Healdsburg Center for the Arts: "Ceramics: Wheel and Handbuilding" With Teacher Linus Lancaster (June 13-16, 1-4:30PM)
• Healdsburg Jazz Festival Opening Night: Tiffany Austin Quintet, Swing and R&B Group, Live at Hotel Healdsburg (5-6:30PM)

From my notebook:

• Results from last week's election keep trickling in, with many races still undecided. Here's the latest. (Sonoma County Government & Press Democrat; paywall)
• After a bunch of grad ceremonies and parties over this past week, the students of Healdsburg are officially out for summer. (Healdsburg Unified School District)
• BTW, you can re-watch the Healdsburg High graduation ceremony on YouTube. The Press Democrat also published a great photo slideshow of the event — there are some real gems in there. (YouTube & Press Democrat; paywall)
• Yesterday's heat broke a record at the Sonoma County Airport temp-measuring station. (Press Democrat; paywall)
• A small grass fire broke out Thursday afternoon near the Sonoma Raceway, ahead of the big NASCAR event this weekend — but firefighters nipped it quick. Here's some cool footage of the aerial operation. (Sonoma Sheriff via Facebook & CAL FIRE via Facebook & Press Democrat; paywall)
• Josephine R. Schrum, who served as a "volunteer with the Council on Aging in Healdsburg for 16 years," has passed away at age 98. May she rest in peace. (Legacy.com)
• We also recently lost William Dreisback, a U.S. Air Force veteran who grew up in Healdsburg and used to play on the "championship Healdsburg HS golf team" in the early 1960s. R.I.P. (Legacy.com)
• This is the last weekend of the "Art at the Source" open studios event organized by the Sebastopol Center for the Arts and hosted by artists across the county, including five in Healdsburg. We've got ceramicist Nancy Morgan on First Street; painter Phyllis Rapp on Sherman; sculptor Catherine L. Bohrman, also on Sherman; ceramicist Robert Weiss out Jack Pine Road off West Dry Creek; and sculptor T Barny out Pine Flat. Go visit them today or tomorrow and see what they're up to! (Art at the Source)
• There's also an interesting new sculpture exhibit at Paradise Ridge Winery in Santa Rosa, featuring the work of Healdsburg sculptor Doug Unkrey. If you remember, Unkrey got "worldwide attention in 2018 when his 21-foot-long, 800-pound ball-peen hammer sculpture was stolen from the lawn of the Healdsburg Community Center," the PD reports. (Press Democrat; paywall)

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— Simone Wilson

About me: I was born and raised in Healdsburg, CA, where I was the editor of the Healdsburg High School Hound's Bark. I have since worked as a local journalist for publications in San Diego, Los Angeles, New York City and the Middle East. I'm currently a senior product manager for Patch.

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