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Santa Rosa chamber CEO to head Napa County Farm Bureau
The chief executive officer of the Santa Rosa Metro Chamber has been tapped to take over as the permanent head of the Napa County Farm Bureau, he said Monday in an email to chamber board members. Peter Rumble said he will depart his current position sometime after Labor Day to become the farm bureau’s chief executive. “I was not looking for another opportunity. I have been blessed by how ...
Caltrans removes vandal’s racist message from Mendocino County traffic sign
Someone broke into the control box of a Caltrans electronic road sign in Mendocino County over the weekend and typed a racist message onto the sign, an agency spokesperson said Monday. The vandalism, which occurred Saturday, involved a sign that was stationed on the northbound side of Highway 128 just north of the Sonoma County border, according to Manny Machado, a public information officer ...
After being nursed back to health, baby giraffe reunited with her mother at Safari West
A giraffe calf at Safari West in Santa Rosa who had been cared for by park staff since a feared infection at birth two weeks ago was reintroduced to her mother over the weekend. After noticing her temperature was low, keepers decided to separate the calf from her mother, Malaika. They gave her an IV through her neck to administer antibiotics and fluids to help get her healthy. A few days later ...
PG&E: No evidence found of plane flying into power line near Sonoma
Pacific Gas and Electric Co. crews found no evidence that a reported plane hit power lines Sunday afternoon, triggering an outage near Sonoma, despite calls to emergency personnel in the region. At about 1:40 p.m., a caller to REDCOM, Sonoma County’s fire and medical dispatch, reported that a plane had struck lines in the 21700 block of Hyde Road, just east of the Sonoma Skypark airport. This ...
Preliminary report cites pilot error in 2023 fatal plane crash near Covelo
The pilot of a personal aircraft that crashed near Covelo late last year, killing themself and a passenger, turned too far causing the plane to go down, according to a preliminary investigation of the incident. On Oct. 20, two witnesses spotted the Beechcraft A36 at different points immediately following its takeoff from the Round Valley Airport, according to the National Transportation Safety ...
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