Hopland News

Levitan cooked up Galaxy Desserts with Chef Jean-Yves Charon. "I needed a food guy, and he needed a biz guy," Levitan says.

Published: Monday, November 23, 2009 at 7:16 a.m. Last Modified: Monday, November 23, 2009 at 7:16 a.m. The CHP was investigating a possible head-on crash on Highway 101 near Hopland early Monday involving two vehicles, one possibly a Brinks armored car.

"Viognier is great with turkey," says Jason McConnell, winemaker and co-owner with his wife, Suzanne Jahnke-McConnell, of RIVINO, one of Mendocino County's newest wineries.

Published: Saturday, November 21, 2009 at 4:03 p.m. Last Modified: Saturday, November 21, 2009 at 4:03 p.m. A transient was found dead at his encampment near the Russian River in Hopland late Friday afternoon, authorities said.

Area stakeholders made their case at a State Water Board workshop in Sacramento Wednesday for what they have done over a monthslong quest to improve the use of Russian River water used to protect crops from frost damage.

The Center for Biological Diversity, Northern California River Watch, and Coast Action Group today sent notice of intent to sue California's State Water Resources Control Board for authorizing water diversions that harm federally protected salmon and steelhead trout in the Russian River and Gualala River watersheds.

When the Mendocino County Planning Commission meets this week it will hear requests to build and raise communications towers and several requests for minor subdivisions in Redwood Valley and on the coast.

More than 30 community volunteers - ranging from the very young to the just about "old" - have planned a warm moment of theater that should bring smiles and joy all 'round. "This show is a community effort because it brings together the novices and the experienced actors together, many of them children who have never had an experience like this," ...

Talk about fun: We woke early on a September Saturday and drove for breakfast to a restaurant on the shore of Bodega Bay.

A fire that took about four hours to fight destroyed Diamond Jim's Sporting Goods Sunday afternoon.

"I'm the wine guy, she is the olive gal," begins Jim Milone. He and Yvonne Hall are sitting at the handmade redwood slab picnic table inside the vast wine tasting/olive oil pressing warehouse on the south end of Hopland that is home to Terra Savia wine and extra virgin olive oil and Olivino olive processing.

Jaxon Keys may be one of Mendocino County's newest wineries but its new winemaker Fred Nickel brings a wealth of local experience.

Some people are still friendly here in Ukiah. The friendliness goes back A long time for us.

Published: Wednesday, October 28, 2009 at 12:45 p.m. Last Modified: Wednesday, October 28, 2009 at 12:45 p.m. Cloverdale is considering building a bike and pedestrian path to its rail station in anticipation of eventual commuter train service.

Antone Fernandez of the Lisbon House and John Dougherty, owning the property next are extending the sidewalk from the hotel to the corner of Ukiah and Kasten streets.

When Beckstoffer Vineyards purchased the Hopland acreage formerly owned by Alex Thomas, the company was thrilled about the prospects for water.

As the grape harvest winds down, Hopland's wineries celebrate with their semi-annual Hopland Passport next weekend on Oct.

An unusually strong storm struck Northern California Tuesday morning bringing heavy rains and winds to the region.

The first big rain of the 2009-10 season will bring the Ukiah Valley somewhere between two and four inches of rain and as much as six inches in the higher elevations.

Congressman Mike Thompson hosted an event at Fetzer Valley Oaks in Hopland and recognized Plowshares and the Food Banks of Ukiah, Willits and Laytonville.