La Onda 2025: Napa Valley’s Latin music festival returns with food, fun and rhythm
Held just after BottleRock Napa Valley, the Latin music festival is expected to draw more than 60,000 fans.
The Week in Zinfandel (5/19/25)
Welcome to the latest installment of The Week in Zinfandel. If I missed your post or story please send me a link and I will be sure to include it next week. Randy Caparoso writes Lodi Grown Wines Shine at Historic Vineyard Society In the City Tasting. Ridge Wine Blog...
Drunk driver caused rollover crash: Novato PD
(KRON) – A suspected drunk driver was arrested after causing a solo rollover car crash in Novato, according to the Novato Police Department. At around 3:19 a.m. on Sunday, Novato authorities responded to an upside-down sedan near the railroad crossing on Hamilton Parkway. Police said the car’s occupants were able to...
Flowery Families Take Protest to Sonoma Plaza
Flowery School parents, students, grandparents and graduates gathered at Sonoma Plaza Friday, May 23 to protest the Sonoma Valley Unified School Trustees’ vote to close, in June 2026, the bilingual elementary school located in the heart of the Springs. Protest organizer Nancy Íñiguez said they came to the Plaza so...
Larry Barnett: Life and Death in the Garden
Norma, my dear departed wife of fifty years and I owned and lived in four homes. We bought our first home in 1984, a dilapidated house near the southern border of Piedmont, CA, just a block from Oakland’s Grand Avenue. We lived there for five years, fixed it up, sold it, moved to Sonoma in 1990 and bought a six-room...
Two Marin women announce plans to open the county’s first women’s sports bar
A pair of women from Marin are hoping to launch the county’s first-ever women’s sports bar, and they’re looking for local donations to fund it. Isabella Woods and Soledad Jean-Pierre announced on Friday they’re beginning to crowdfund donations for “The Twelfth,” a women’s sports bar they’ve been dreaming up for years.
The Colorado Connection to the Zodiac Killer: A Possible Lead
America’s Zodiac Killer is believed to have murdered at least five people between December 1968 and October 1969 — and remains unidentified to this day. The shootings and stabbings took place over 10 months in California's San Francisco Bay Area. Two victims survived. One of them claimed the killer was someone from...
Memorial Day earthquake shakes San Francisco Bay Area
An earthquake shook parts of the San Francisco Bay Area early Monday morning.
A Little Different Dirt Bike Ride Today
Sunday May 25, 2025 Guerneville CA. Barry showed up in my yard this morning which meant we were going on a bike ride up in the forest…………….But. Today I suggested we do something different and try to make it up to an old friends house that took different roads then we usually travel.
Novato authorities investigating death of elderly man found on the ground
(KRON) – The Marin County Sheriff’s Office is investigating the death of an elderly man, according to authorities. At around 10 a.m. on Sunday, the Novato Police Department was alerted to the report of an elderly man who was on the ground, not breathing, near Entrada Drive at Lilac Place. Novato police officers and...
