Sebastopol News

The design of the proposed CVS Pharmacy-Chase Bank project in Sebastopol changed over the past year from cookie-cutter corporate to a bamboo-colored building with large windows, a plaza and broad walkways fronting the streets.

The Polish-born Holocaust survivor made his way to Northern California after the war, started out small, and eventually built his business into one of Sonoma County's largest poultry processors.

A controversial proposal by CVS Pharmacy to build at one of Sebastopol's most visible intersections was in limbo Wednesday after the City Council rejected its design plans.

Several cities in Sonoma County are quietly cutting their taxes on most real estate transactions, a tacit acknowledgment that for years they may have been charging too much.

Nine medical marijuana dispensaries will be permitted in the areas of Sonoma County outside city limits, the county Board of Supervisors decided Tuesday.

Wadsworth, a longtime French teacher at Petaluma High School, personified the French expression of enjoying a hearty and carefree life.

In the North Bay Area of San Francisco , Sustainable, local Grass-fed beef is available in several local grocery markets, and even some restaurants.

A final decision is expected Tuesday on the design of the CVS Pharmacy project, which has remained a contentious issue in Sebastopol even though it has already received the critical approvals needed to move forward.

Dream on, Press Democrat editors. Your "Occupy movement in ashes" editorial on Wednesday was wishful thinking.

Two Petaluma residents were arrestedA Wednesday on charges of burglarizing a west county residence nearA Sebastopol while the residents were at church, according to the Sonoma County Sheriff's Office.

A Santa Rosa man was arrested in the wake of a fight at Analy High School in Sebastopol this week after witnesses said he got into a car and struck the other combatant with his car, police said.

Hobbit or no, it is grand that the wondrous mushroom has become so readily available and so diverse.

The Sonoma County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday unanimously approved an emergency halt to new vineyards and orchards on forested slopes and hilltops.

'Fault Lines' runs ThursdaySunday, Feb. 1025, at Main Stage West. 104 N. Main St., Sebastopol.

Some winemakers get a little recognition, and suddenly, they think they're rock stars.

Barry Latham-Ponneck has long been a west Sonoma County activist in the thick of bold, often-strident confrontations that oppose war, imperialism and perceived threats to the environment, social injustice and the abuse of power.

The project, expected to cost $649,000, includes installing new shelves with seismic bracing, staff work stations that have better ergonomics, more computers for the public, better access for the disabled, improved lighting and new rugs.

Sonoma county is renowned as the home of California's premium wine industry. It was here that Augoston Haraszthy founded his Buena Vista Winery and it was here that the mysterious grape Zinfandel was first cultivated, at the Haraszthy's Buena Vista Winery.

Some winemakers get a little recognition, and suddenly, they think they're rock stars.

The Penngrove playwright and director has made a habit of turning life into theater, overseeing young actors as they interview real world subjects and use their verbatim words as dialogue.