A wave of closures and layoffs at Goodwill stores in the Bay Area is the latest sign of the staggering losses suffered by retail and service-industry businesses amid the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdown. Goodwill Industries of the Greater East Bay has announced it closed eight retail stores and laid off 61 employees on Friday.… Keep Reading
Copperfield’s hosts online “Hooked” talk Are some of the decisions we make about what we eat beyond our control? Is food an addiction, like drugs or alcohol? To what extent does the food industry know, or care, about these vulnerabilities? Michael Moss, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter formerly with the New York Times, answers some… Keep Reading
One of the few liberties gained by Californians during the pandemic — ordering cocktails to go from bars and restaurants — could be enshrined in state law under a new bill in consideration at the state Legislature. Local bar and restaurant owners credit carry-out food and drink orders with helping to prop up their struggling… Keep Reading
Burbank Housing plans to move to bigger offices in Santa Rosa this spring. The Santa Rosa-based nonprofit builder and operator of affordable housing throughout the North Bay purchased a 15,360-square-foot office building at 1425 Corporate Center Parkway from Becoming Independent on Jan. 29 for $2.8 million, the companies announced this week. A nonprofit that helps… Keep Reading
Vintage Wine Estates, which has built a portfolio of over 50 wine and spirits brands from the California Wine County and the Pacific Northwest to become one of the largest U.S. wine producers, has inked an agreement with a special-purpose acquisition company to become publicly traded. The deal between London-based Bespoke Capital Acquisition Corp. and… Keep Reading
Everyday travelers in search of a refined but affordable getaway to Sonoma wine country now have an inviting new place to stay thanks to the opening of the newly constructed La Quinta by Wyndham Santa Rosa Sonoma. Situated in a prime location off of Highway 101, just minutes from Santa Rosa’s bustling downtown, the hotel’s… Keep Reading
To get the buzz of cannabis in a faster, easier to control, more socially acceptable way, the latest focus is drinking it. “It makes sense as an ingestion method, especially for new consumers. Smoking anything in front of people is not popular,” Aaron Silverstein, managing director and enologist with BevZero. The Santa Rosa-based company specializes… Keep Reading
A homegrown Santa Rosa maker of Mexican spices and tortillas started in a small storefront, before growing into a formidable county food processor, now plans to expand its national prowess having ceded family control to an outside investor group. La Tortilla Factory has sold a majority stake in the company to Idaho-based Flagship Food Group, the… Keep Reading
SANTA ROSA, Calif. Keysight Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: KEYS), a leading technology company that helps enterprises, service providers and governments accelerate innovation to connect and secure the world, has introduced a suite of end-to-end solutions that enables an ecosystem of Open Radio Access Network (O-RAN) vendors and mobile operators to verify interoperability, performance, conformance and security… Keep Reading
Although the coronavirus continues infecting Sonoma County residents at an alarming rate and more people in the community have died in January than any month in the pandemic, the county’s top public health official Monday loosened severe restrictions on businesses and public life. In opting to lift the latest stay-home order in place since Dec.… Keep Reading
