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Oscar preview Hits and misses in the Academy’s nominations this year 4
HEALDSBURGTRIBUNE.COM
OUR 161ST YEAR
NO 6
FEBRUARY 5, 2026
HHS ‘legend’ Cassidy Jourdan leads the charge ● Fourth-quarter ‘eruption’ distracts from Piner basketball victory By Caleb Knudsen Photo by Christian Kallen
Lady Hounds fight for position Cassidy Jourdan, a former HHS athletic star and now coach of the girls basketball team, goes over strategy with the team during practice on Feb. 2. Center Claire Berry (11), facing the camera, was not able to play in the Feb. 4 game due to her ejection from the recent Piner game. — MORE PAGE 12
Process begins for Station Area ● $1.13 million grant to kickstart planning Staff Report The City of Healdsburg has begun planning for the eventual arrival of SMART, perhaps
as soon as the end of 2028. The planning began at Monday’s City Council meeting, when the five-member board heard from Planning Director Scott Duiven about the formation of a Healdsburg Station Area Specific Plan and the formation of two Community Advisory Committees to contribute to the process. The project is funded by a $1.13 million grant from the Metropolitan Transportation Commission through its Transit-Oriented Communities
(TOC) program. The program encourages cities to concentrate housing, jobs and services near public transit so people can get around more easily without relying on cars. While Healdsburg’s recently adopted Housing Element positions the city well to meet TOC requirements related to affordable housing production, preservation and protection, preparation of a Specific Plan is necessary to address TOC — More on page 3
Only a week remains in the 202526 North Coast Section basketball season, and the Healdsburg girls are destined again for the post-season Shaughnessy tournament, as they have a lock on one of the top four places in the six-team league. They won’t make the top spot—Ukiah is 8-0— but second place is within reach for the 4-4 Greyhounds. It’s been a strong showing under first-year coach Cassidy Jourdan, who herself was a Healdsburg High star athlete—not only in basketball but volleyball and softball as well during her four years at HHS, from 2008–2012. “I loved sports,” she said. “I loved them all. I even went to college for sports management. It really was my entire life.”
So committed, and excellent, was she that she will claim a place in the school’s Athletic Hall of Fame at the “Legends Ball” celebration on Feb. 22 at Villa Chanticleer. The mixed results for this season have something to do with the fact that the girls lost four senior starters last year. Only center Claire Berry remains, and ironically she was at the center of a kerfuffle in last week’s Piner game that made headlines in the region’s sports pages. “It kind of started with the JV game; tensions were kind of high,” recalled the coach of the Jan. 30 games at Smith Robinson Hall. The tension continued when the two varsity squads took the field. Piner’s Robert Reece is a very passionate head coach, loudly exhort— More on page 6