🌱 More Controlled Burns + New Plaza Tasting Room + 101 Trailer Crash

First, your daily weather:

• Monday: Sunny and warming up after the rainy weekend. High: 83 Low: 51.
• Tuesday: Partly sunny and even warmer! High: 85 Low: 56.

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Air over Healdsburg:

Here are the top 3 stories in Healdsburg today:

1. After three days of controlled burning last week out by Lake Sonoma, the Northern Sonoma County Fire District — aka, the agency in charge of protecting Healdsburg's highly flammable outskirts — is planning four more burns this week while the weather is still pretty mild. The first will be held today, out at an 11-acre ranch near Calistoga; the second is planned for tomorrow out Pine Flat Road; the third will be held Wednesday at Healdsburg's Rio Lindo Academy, in the crook of the Russian River near Digger's Bend; and the fourth is scheduled for Friday along a 15- to 25-acre ridge above Lake Sonoma. "We have partnered with Sonoma Land Trust, Audubon Canyon Ranch, and the Rio Lindo Academy to conduct these burns," district officials say. "We will also receive assistance from CAL FIRE, Calistoga Fire, South Coast Fire, the Good Fire Alliance, and the Northern Sonoma County Air Pollution Control District." Our fire district says it has burned more than 500 acres in the past year and a half, in an attempt to "reduce fuel loads and prevent future fires or at least reduce the intensity of wildfires" in the area. If you want to see what these kinds of burns look like, district officials posted some pretty great aerial footage of last week's Lake Sonoma operation online. (Northern Sonoma County Fire District via Facebook & Northern Sonoma County Fire District via Facebook)
2. A huge RV-type trailer flipped over on the 101 through Healdsburg last Friday afternoon, causing hours of freeway delays, according to witness reports. Photos and video posted to Facebook showed the trailer lying on its side, smoking heavily and apparently blocking all southbound lanes. "That's been like that since before 2pm today," one neighbor wrote in a Facebook thread Friday. "I drove through at 3:30 and traffic was stopped." And another added: "We tried to get through at 430 to pick up our kid in Windsor but we couldn't get through or around." I haven't seen any reports of injuries — hope everyone came out OK! (Sonoma County Scanner Updates via Facebook & Facebook Groups & Facebook Groups)
3. There's a new local business in town. Trattore Farms, which produces olive oil and wine, held its official tasting-room opening in downtown Healdsburg on Friday — complete with a shiny red tractor on display at the corner of Plaza and Center streets. Their tasting room has been open for a few weeks already, but this was the formal ribbon-cutting. You can now taste both their "Rhône style wines" and olive oils, grown in the Dry Creek Valley, at 320 Center Street from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily. (Healdsburg Chamber of Commerce via Facebook & Trattore Farms via Facebook)

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Today and tomorrow in Healdsburg:

Monday, June 6

• Burial of Healdsburg Resident Elena Scalese at Oak Mound Cemetery (10AM)
• Flag Raising Ceremony for Pride Month at Healdsburg City Hall (5:30PM)
• Aikido Summer Session at Healdsburg Community Center (June 6-29, 5:45PM)
• Healdsburg City Council Meeting (6PM)

Tuesday, June 7

• Healdsburg Tuesday Farmers Market (9AM-12:30PM)
• Brown Bag Book Club at Healdsburg Library: "Sacre Bleu" by Christopher Moore (12-1PM)
• "The Winemaker Experience" at Blanchard Family Wines, Featuring Tasting & Tour (3:30PM)
• Healdsburg Running Company Magnolia Loop Run, Ending With Clothing Exchange in the Parklet & Live Music in the Plaza (6PM)
• Tuesdays in the Plaza, Featuring Rock Band Kingsborough (6-8PM)
• District English Learner Advisory Committee (DELAC) Meeting at Healdsburg Unified School District (6-8PM)

From my notebook:

• Looks like we got between half an inch and an inch of rain over the weekend. (Press Democrat; paywall)
• Related: Who saw that cool rainbow thingy form above Healdsburg as the Warriors beat the Celtics yesterday? (Facebook Groups)
• Two separate buildings in Geyserville burst into flames Saturday "within minutes of one another," local fire officials say — "definitely a rare event here in Northern Sonoma County." They add that "both structures appear to have been unoccupied" and that "the cause of both fires are being investigated." (Northern Sonoma County Fire District via Facebook & Press Democrat; paywall)
• Meanwhile, the big 570-acre Old Fire over in Napa County is now 100 percent contained, officials say — with no reports of damaged buildings or civilian injuries. (Press Democrat; paywall)
• The Redwood Empire Food Bank's free "summer lunch program" for kids starts today and runs through August 12. Here's the full list of pickup sites across the county, including three in Healdsburg. (Google Sheets & Redwood Empire Food Bank & Press Democrat; paywall)
• Local nonprofit Corazón Healdsburg is celebrating the first graduating class of third graders who each saved up to $500 for college through the org's few-year-old "Healdsburg Kinder2College Fund." (Ariel Kelley via Facebook & Corazón Healdsburg via Facebook)
• The Press Democrat has some great pics of the pride parade down in Santa Rosa over the weekend. Healdsburg's out-and-proud mayor, Ozzy Jimenez, was an official parade "honoree" — reportedly riding in a convertible between floats, "waving at families flanking Fourth Street." (Press Democrat; paywall)
• Another longstanding tradition at Healdsburg Elementary and its Fitch Mountain Campus, the "HHS Senior Walk," also returned last week. High school seniors "walked through the halls of HES and FMC to thunderous applause and awed students," school leaders say. (Healdsburg High School via Facebook & Healdsburg Elementary via Facebook)

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