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Sonoma County’s COVID-19 case data shows a climbing line upward, marking hundreds of new positive cases each week and a quadrupling of deaths in just the last month. All predictions are for this line to keep moving upward across the page to the right where it might meet up with a “second wave” of coronavirus infections just when flu season gets here in a few months.

While reading reports of calamitous invasions of hurricanes, floods and displacement of whole populations; attempting to track the directions of two world leaders bent on outdoing Mother Nature in threatening destruction of the planet, I find myself musing on a tiny beetle eating our zinnias.

Wine and weed come together at Santa Rosa symposium George Christie began to drink wine in moderation as a college student in New Jersey, which calls itself “The Garden State” and though it has beautiful farms, it’s not known for vines and wines. “It was...

Mankind has had a very long association with masks, probably dating to the Stone Age some 200,000 years ago. Masks have been a part of ritual, religion and play. But through all those epochs of time, it’s been very rare that a civilization donned...

100 years ago, the Tracy-Waldron Fruit Co. Saturday completed arrangements for leasing the Cerri warehouse on the railroad near North street, for a term of years, and will use the entire building as their headquarters for shipping fruit.

Chris Markell’s career as a winemaker tells a story of the evolving Sonoma County wine business throughout the past four decades. 

"Medicine in Sonoma County has changed in so many ways over these years, but it is still an amazingly rewarding calling and so fulfilling to care for patients and their families. We thank you for entrusting us with your care," say local women's health professionals...