North Bay Leadership Council projects economic effects of water shortage At a conference in Petaluma last Thursday, the North Bay Leadership Council presented an “Economic Insight” report showing the consequences to the local economy of reduced water supply. According to the report, a 30% water... Continue
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Describing Zipper is pretty much synonymous with describing its owners, Elizabeth Cashour and Steven Saden: fascinating, fun, eclectic and surprising, as well as welcoming, accessible and possessed of an exceptional aesthetic. Fine, but what is the shop? It’s a modern mercantile emporium, according to Cashour... Continue
The new owners of the Pizzeria Capri Ristorante, the Gundeid family, made pizza for parking lot parties after every Dragons home football game this season, a practice started by the former owner, Jacob Begeorges. The pizza tradition has been going on for some 10 years.... Continue
Certain burglars in Sonoma had an easy time of it this week, browsing residential streets for unlocked cars, getting in, finding keys or the remote control garage door openers, and either driving off in the car or, using the remote, getting into the garage, and... Continue
Friends, family and admirers will bid goodbye this week to one of California’s great ladies. Barbara Bundschu, great-granddaughter of Jacob Gundlach, founder of California’s oldest family-owned winery, Gundlach-Bundschu, of Sonoma, and granddaughter of Thomas Geary, a congressman from Santa Rosa from 1890-1895, was an independent... Continue
The driver emerged unscathed, but his 1978 Buick Regal had its front bumper crushed by a Sonoma County Transit bus Wednesday morning at the corner of Broadway and West MacArthur Street. Deputies responding to a call around 11:30 a.m. found the side of the bus... Continue
Calling themselves the “Save Our Neighborhood Organization,” residents of the proposed site for new Sonoma Valley Hospital buildings announced at a public meeting last week their determination to fight the hospital’s construction plan. Hospital officials, who had called the meeting to demonstrate that they have... Continue
At 11:30 p.m. last Wednesday police were dispatched to the Casa Grande parking lot and found two males rummaging through a pickup owned by Mary’s Pizza Shack and trying to open doors on various other cars until they got in a Green Ford Explorer and... Continue
To cleanse the palate between wines, tasting rooms often offer taste-bud-neutralizing wafers and tap water. Here’s a better idea: a cold one pulled at Ernie’s Tin Bar, the best kept secret in Sonoma County. Located in the no-man’s land where Lakeville Highway and Stage Gulch... Continue
The Sonoma County Regional Parks announced this week that its campgrounds can now be reserved via a new website, available “24/7” for choosing favorite campsites. Reservations are taken up to a year in advance. The five campgrounds operated by the county are Gualala Point and... Continue