Outdoor lovers looking for a way to visit California state parks for free are in luck. California State Parks issued a reminder Tuesday about three fee-free ways to explore more than 200 state parks, including some in Sonoma County. The California State Parks Library Pass, available to all state residents, allows Californians to use their… Keep Reading
SANTA ROSA, California (KPIX) — A Santa Rosa man has found a creative way to raise money for needy Bay Area families by using his passion in life to construct his own way of giving. From his workshop in his home garage, Frank Wheeler saws small pieces to create what will become a wooden bowl,… Keep Reading
An hour’s drive north of San Francisco, rows of gnarled and twisted vines terrace up the slopes of gently rolling hills in Sonoma County, California – which, alongside its neighbour, Napa, has been one of the world’s premier wine-growing regions for more than a century. Many of the region’s first commercial vines were planted in… Keep Reading
SANTA ROSA BEACH — Now-retired Air Force Staff Sgt. Brian Schiefer wasn’t supposed to be alive Wednesday. He was, in fact, supposed to have died more than a decade earlier. Instead, Wednesday was the day Schiefer accepted the keys to his new Santa Rosa Beach home from the Gary Sinise Foundation, whose R.I.S.E. (Restoring Independence Supporting… Keep Reading
The floor of Jen Grady’s classroom at Mattie Washburn Elementary School was shaking ever so slightly. On the plush grid of her multicolored carpet, 10 pairs of feet landed with muffled, rhythmic thuds. As the students, all first-graders, hopped, they sounded out the letter “r,” a tricky consonant for many 6- and 7-year-olds to master.… Keep Reading
Vintage Wine Estates, a locally based group of California and Pacific Northwest brands such as B.R. Cohn and Ace Cider, on Tuesday said it acquired a 120-year-old Midwest contract winery, brewery and distillery, with plans to make it an Eastern U.S. hub for production of ready-to-drink adult beverage mixes and cider. The Santa Rosa-based company… Keep Reading
When Ines De La Luz showed up for work at the Amy’s Kitchen factory in Santa Rosa, California, wearing an arm brace, prescribed after she couldn’t move her hand at the end of a fast-paced shift making frozen burritos in July 2020, she says a supervisor ordered her to remove the brace and return to… Keep Reading
Invoking the kind of restrictions on activities that marked the early months of the pandemic, Sonoma County starting Wednesday will prohibit large gatherings — indoors and out — in an effort to tamp down the alarming spread of COVID-19 from the super-contagious omicron variant. For now, health officials in other Bay Area counties say they… Keep Reading
SANTA ROSA, CA — Millions of people in the United States abandoned their jobs during the coronavirus pandemic in search of a career with better benefits and, in some cases, more lucrative pay. If you’re considering a similar change, Santa Rosa is among several U.S. cities where you’ll get paid more for your work. U.S.… Keep Reading
FORT BRAGG, CA — The responsibility of the entire operation of the Fort Bragg Food Bank falls on the capable shoulders of Director Amanda Friscia. The outreach of the Food Bank extends as far north as Leggett, as far south as Gualala, and as far east as Covelo. It provides for ten food distribution centers… Keep Reading
