If you’re dreaming of owning a luxury home in Sonoma Wine Country, but don’t have a few millions to spare, there might be a Hail Mary option. The San Francisco Bay Dream House Raffle is holding its 18th and final contest — the grand prize this year is a sleekly designed, 4,500-square-foot home at 3818… Keep Reading
Target said Tuesday that it will close nine stores in four states, including one in New York City’s East Harlem neighborhood, and three in the Bay Area, saying that theft and organized retail crime have threatened the safety of its workers and customers. The closings, which will be effective Oct. 21, also include three stores… Keep Reading
The Bay Area Air Quality Management District Tuesday issued an air quality advisory and Sonoma County followed with a health advisory due to smoky air from wildfires burning in Northern California and Oregon. The air quality advisory is in effect through Wednesday. Dalton Behringer, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service, said poor air quality… Keep Reading
Ground squirrels scurried around the Oak Knolls Picnic Area in Santa Rosa’s Spring Lake Regional Park on Sunday morning as an excavator got to work removing chunks of concrete. The park’s Upper Shady Oaks Picnic Area will no longer be a gathering spot for those looking to enjoy a meal outside amid the numerous trees… Keep Reading
Santa Rosa will move forward with negotiations with two development teams that seek to overhaul two prominent parking sites downtown. The Santa Rosa City Council, in a 5-2 vote Tuesday, approved a proposal to enter into exclusive negotiations with Napa-based developer Rogal Projects for the redevelopment of the city-owned garage on Third Street. The approval… Keep Reading
After months of staff work, the Santa Rosa City Council is set to advance a pair of potential deals with developers that could transform two prominent city-owned downtown properties into housing. The city seeks to redevelop the parking garage on Third Street just east of Old Courthouse Square and the former White House department store… Keep Reading
When Marissa Freeman showed up on the Ridgway High School campus her freshman year, she had five academic credits to her name and was emotionally depleted. She had dropped out of the ArtQuest program at Santa Rosa High and felt damaged by, as she described it, experiencing art as a source of competition and judgment.… Keep Reading
People who think they know local history through luminaries like Luther Burbank, Jack London and men whose names appear on buildings, monuments and big headstones in the cemetery, will now get a different and deeper story when they visit the Museum of Sonoma County. The museum, housed in the old 1911 Santa Rosa Post Office… Keep Reading
Mike Chavez has fond memories of Santa Rosa Plaza. He would often meet up with friends at “Agraria,” the 12-foot-long marble statue of a hand installed in 1996 at the mall’s entrance on B Street in Santa Rosa. Now, he gets to help shape the mall’s new look — his company, Mike Chavez Painting, is… Keep Reading
Remember this time last year, when water stores depleted by several years of drought left water managers and consumers alike hoping desperately for a wet winter ahead? Well, Sonoma Water says the region’s main reservoirs — Lakes Sonoma and Mendocino — ended this August with the highest combined storage level since 1985, the first full… Keep Reading
