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Santa Rosa-based Vintage Wine Estates Files for Bankruptcy, Announces Mass Layoffs Impacting 377 Employees Across the Bay Area
Vintage Wine Estates, a Santa Rosa-based wine conglomerate, declared bankruptcy and braced for sweeping layoffs. The company, once the 15th largest wine producer in the nation, announced on Wednesday its decision to file for bankruptcy coupled with a "mass layoff" of its entire workforce spanning across ten facilities throughout the Bay Area, as reported by SF Chronicle. Vintage Wine Estates' filing indicated the company’s plan to lay off 377 employees from locations in four counties.
Driver hospitalized after motorcycle flips ‘multiple times' in Santa Rosa crash
(KRON) — A man was hospitalized with life-threatening injuries following a Santa Rosa motorcycle crash that occurred early Friday morning. The Santa Rosa Police Department said police, fire, and medical personnel were all dispatched to Fountaingrove and Parkway Hill Road at about 6:18 a.m. Witnesses reported that the motorcycle was heading west on Fountaingrove and […]
Napa Valley architect Howard Backen, whose rustic refinement defined the Wine Country look, dies
If there was one architect who came to define the contemporary California Wine Country look of rustic elegance, it was Howard Backen. Backen died July 22 in Napa Valley, where he established his firm Backen & Gillam with James Gillam in 1996. He was 88. He left his distinctively natural imprint on buildings all over Napa and Sonoma counties and beyond. His architecture respected and reflected ...
Record number of cider producers join showcase at Gravenstein Apple Fair
Long before California’s infatuation with the wine grape, apples were king in Sonoma County, which was once considered among the top apple-growing regions in the world. It all began with the Gravenstein, a versatile, early-ripening variety that likely arrived in Sonoma County in the early 1800s. Although opinions differ on who introduced the apple to the area, there is widespread agreement ...
Pro-Palestine activists issue ‘People’s Ceasefire Resolution’
Frustrated with the negative response to ceasefire resolutions by the majority of Sonoma County cities, pro-Palestine activists July 23 declared a “People’s Resolution.”. Cotati is the only city in the county to approve a resolution calling for an end to Israel’s ten-and-a-half-month assault on Gaza, which has left an estimated 40,000 Gazans dead and many more injured or buried under rubble. Activists failed in their attempts to pass similar resolutions in Sonoma, Santa Rosa, Petaluma and Sebastopol,
California’s largest wildfire of 2024 incinerates 109 buildings as hero firefighters work to douse flames
Firefighters in Northern California are continuing to put their lives on the line while they attack the Park Fire from the ground and the air as flames from the Golden State's largest wildfire of 2024 burn through the pristine landscape while incinerating more than 100 buildings.
These San Francisco Olympians are going for gold in Paris. Here’s how to watch them
Of the 10,000 athletes competing in the Paris Summer Olympics, 600 are on Team USA and 142 hail from California — dozens of them with ties to the Bay Area. The nine-county region is well-represented in a range of sports, from basketball and badminton to sailing, cycling and table tennis.
Northern California inmate escapes fire camp, manhunt underway
(FOX40.COM) — A California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation inmate who was stationed at a facility to combat fires and floods escaped on Friday, according to the Nevada County Sheriff’s Office. Deputies said the inmate was identified as 45-year-old Arnel Arienda and reportedly “walked away” from the Cal Fire Washington Ridge Conservation Camp in Nevada […]
Bay Area Temperatures to Cool This Weekend Before Warming Trend Resumes, NWS Sacramento Reports
Bay Area residents can expect a slight respite from the recent heat as temperatures are set to take a dip this weekend, according to the National Weather Service (NWS) Sacramento. Forecasts show a cooler trend with gradual warming to start again by the middle of the upcoming week. An increase in humidity and decrease in wind speeds are also expected to help in lowering fire weather risks.
Great Redwood Trail Ad Airs On NBC
California taxpayers probably paid hundreds of thousands of dollars for a slick half-hour ad on NBC Bay Area Sunday night. It was quite the propaganda coup, although we doubt many people actually watch “OpenRoads with Doug McConnell.”. The Trail’s grandiosity was underscored by the contrast between the two principle...
California fire scorches through land the size of Los Angeles as blazes burn across US West
Thousands of firefighters were battling a wildfire in northern California on Saturday that exploded in size, scorching an area about the size of Los Angeles — one of several blazes tearing through the western United States and Canada amid dry, hot and windy conditions.
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