It might be surprising to learn that a driving impetus behind Sonoma County wine venture Patz & Hall Winery bloomed in Santa Cruz in the late 1970s. Founder and owner James Hall was a UCSC slug back ...

Rebecca Pennington loves seeing the transformations of her hot yoga and pilates students. The owner of Energize Hot Yoga Santa Rosa for 14 years, she’s seen participants’ strength, posture, muscle ...

Jessica Vega’s connection to Sonoma CAN’s Head Start began in childhood. Her mother, Maricruz Reynoso, worked at CAN and knew how critical preschool was to childhood development. Years later, Jessica ...

Fixing Forests I just visited the redwood country and wilderness forests that stretch from the cool coastal range to snow-topped alpine ridges in the interior mountains in Northern California. Hiking ...

Rebecca Pennington loves seeing the transformations of her hot yoga and pilates students. The owner of Energize Hot Yoga Santa Rosa for 14 years, she’s seen participants’ strength, posture, muscle ...

Even after decades practicing personal injury law, Neal Kuvara still enjoys helping injured people. He calls it “solving cases,” and it typically begins with a one-on-one conversation. “I try to talk ...

ARIES (March 21-April 19): I think you’re ready to establish new ways of nourishing and protecting what’s valuable to you. Your natural assertiveness will be useful in setting boundaries and securing ...

Jerde understands the importance of creativity—she runs her own brand identity firm that develops both strategy and visual concepts for a variety of companies. “People have this misconception that ...

Week of May 8 -- May 14, 2015 ...

Un-Happys With regard to the Happys, I suggest a more fitting band name: the Vandals. Their so-called “marketing efforts” are amateurish and unprofessional, if not pathetic. They post their inept, ...

It was to participate in this Renaissance reawakening of Green Gulch that Sessei Meg Levie returned to take up the position of “head of practice.” As we sat together in the restless shade of a stand ...

Surprise, surprise Editor, As a lifelong Democrat, I never in my life thought I would pray for the Koch brothers to save us from Donald Trump. –Michelle Kaye ...