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The Healdsburg City Council (from left): Ron Edwards, Chris Herrod, Mayor Ariel Kelley, Evelyn Mitchell and Vice Mayor David Hagele. (Photo/Facebook)
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Healdsburg selects first Jewish mayor since 19th century

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For the first time in more than 100 years, Healdsburg has a Jewish mayor. On Dec. 5, Ariel Kelley was appointed to the yearlong position by her peers on the […]

A house just outside St. Helena, Napa County, burns in the Glass Fire, Sept. 29, 2020. (Photo/Napa County Sheriff)
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In North Bay, fire and smoke disrupt an already unusual Yom Kippur

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Erna Salm in the 1940s at the piano at the family home in Flossmoor, near Chicago. (Photo/Courtesy Susan Salm)
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Piano that survived Holocaust finds its forever home in the North Bay

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