Sebastopol News

Michael Hershey is retired from a 22-year career as a military pilot, corporate executive and corporate pilot.

As America's taste for fine wine matures, more and more people are searching for new and different wines, and more and more winegrowers throughout the world are searching for the right climate and the right soils to grow fine wine grapes.

A discarded cigarette started a fire that killed a man in his home in unincorporated Sonoma County late Saturday, Gold Ridge Fire Protection District Chief Andy Pforsich announced Thursday.

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.

Since trying Chef Larry Vito's BBQ last month at the contest in Healdsburg, I've been wanting to taste ribs made to his own spec, instead of the contest's materials.

The Sonora Police Department's Explorer Post returned home recently from the Redwood Empire Explorer Challenge in Sebastopol with five trophies.

Lisa Hug has been watching egrets and herons for more than 25 years. Most of the time, she doesn't have to look down.

Home food production is an 'entry-level' survival tactic, says Scott McKeown. Here is a very interesting piece from the North Bay Bohemian , which offers an interesting update on the continuing spread of Transition in the US.

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In Other Words is the site blog for Globe Books. It is written by James Adams and Peter Scowen, as well as by guest bloggers from the world of books.

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Facing multibillion-dollar state funding cuts, school districts across California are asking residents to tax themselves to fund local schools.

An affordable housing project coming to Sonoma Highway will use a panel of experts to help develop the property: local residents.

I t's stomach season, so we're clearing out inventory." So says chef Mateo Granados as he dishes up a heaping scoop of embutido de chito , his Yucatan family recipe of baby goat stomach that's stuffed with blood, heart and kidney, then aged for three weeks into an inky black loaf.

Today and Sunday, Sunset magazine opens the doors to its Menlo Park complex to the public for its annual Celebration Weekend.

Sonoma County's transient occupancy taxes were down 10 percent in the final quarter of 2008, according to a report released by the Economic Development Board today.

Sonoma County's head of drunken driving and drug addiction programs has been arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence.

Guerneville is the kind of NorCal town you can't help but love - ringed by redwoods, bisected by the meandering Russian River and only a 90-minute drive from SF - it has "summer weekend" written all over it.

L ast weekend, I had the opportunity to meet the distinguished Sebastopol poet David Bromige.