Graton News

Published: Wednesday, January 6, 2010 at 6:53 p.m. Last Modified: Wednesday, January 6, 2010 at 6:53 p.m. Two wondrous moments stand out in Tuesday night's epic confrontation at Santa Rosa City Hall over whether the council should ease the city's financial pains by extending its garbage-collection contract with North Bay Corp.

It's time to ring in the New Year and if you are a celiac, you may feel as though your options are limited.

Vera Gonzalez, left holding her grandson John Ruben Ybarra, 3 months, watches as her son Christopher Ybarra cuts down one of the tallest Christmas trees at Larsen's Christmas Tree Farm in Petaluma, Friday November 28, 2008.

Watch out for those holiday shoppers as you commute through the county the week of November 29.

City Bike: I couldn't agree with you more than what Editor Ets-Hokin recanted about in a recent column, "Shiftless and Clueless." I drive a '71 Landcruiser and a bicentennial Bultaco, and there's not an airbag, bell, buzzer, or whistle within five feet of those machines.

The presence of migrant workers in the west Sonoma County town of Graton has a long history, beginning with Chinese immigrants at the turn of the 20th century and then again when the black roller clouds of the dustbowl forced farmers west during the Great Depression.

September is harvest time in the fertile valleys of Sonoma County, which means a cornucopia of opportunities to sample nature's bounty.

Fire crews in Sonoma County battled a house fire south of Sebastopol Sunday evening that destroyed a two-story home, a battalion chief said.

I visited five farm stands in Sebastopol on Saturday and compared the Gravensteins from each.

A Graton man is being held after allegedly crashing into two vehicles parked at different locations near the Sonoma County Fairgrounds Sunday night.

Much of Northern California's wine country is pretty annoying. If you're not faced with ostentatious wealth - wineries built to look like fake chA teaux, white-tablecloth restaurants - you're dealing with a self-consciously down-home vibe, like $12 hamburgers and kitchen stores selling distressed antique tin that's supposed to look like it came out ...

Willow Wood Cafe in Graton has been the best choice for years, but it's often crowded.

TWO AREA teens were charged with retail theft at the Walmart Supercenter. Jenna Schuecher, 17, 110 Blake, Godley, was stopped Wednesday, July 22, by loss prevention officers and charged with taking JVC headphones.

Find out more about Nancy: Nancy Manchester is a lifelong foodie and wine-lover, having worked in everything from fast food to fine dining in her youth.

Graton is a blink-and-you'll-miss-it spot that you might pass through on your way to the western part of Sonoma County .

Today's work of art is one that I own and is hanging on the wall in my kitchen. It's by a local artist, Rik Olson , who's an illustrator as well as a fine artist.

The ancestral homeland of the Coast Miwok includes all of Marin and southern Sonoma counties, with the City of Sonoma being at the eastern limit of their territory at the time of Spanish contact.

Kathleen Acord, 47, a longtime employee at public radio and television station KQED in San Francisco, was pronounced dead at the scene, authorities said.