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Blondie’s Bakery Boutique to open in former Sift storefront in downtown Santa Rosa
Not even six months after cupcake bakery Sift Dessert Bar on Mendocino Avenue closed its doors, a new bakery is moving in to take its place in downtown Santa Rosa. A longtime Sonoma County resident, Lauren Feagin, is opening Blondie’s Bakery Boutique in the same storefront in early June after previously serving as a manager at Sift for nine years.
New downtown Santa Rosa apartments reach milestone, construction to finish by 2025
A new downtown Santa Rosa apartment complex on Mendocino Avenue is expected to finish construction and start leasing to tenants by spring 2025. The development from San Francisco-based Related California officially topped out construction early last week in a ceremony with developers and local leaders to celebrate the construction milestone.
Charges reduced in Petaluma poultry facility incursion
Felony charges were reduced Monday against two women who have been accused of conspiracy in connection with an early morning incursion onto a Petaluma poultry facility last year. Judge Lynnette Brown’s ruling was handed down during an appearance in Sonoma County Superior Court in Santa Rosa, where defendants Zoe Rosenberg...
Grand Funk Railroad brings decades of hits to Rohnert Park
Mention the Midwest ‘70s band Grand Funk Railroad and fans start reciting the lyrics to their 1973 No. 1 hit, “We’re an American Band.”. “Now these fine ladies, they had a plan/They was out to meet the boys in the band/They said, ‘Come on dudes, let's get it on’/And we proceeded to tear that hotel down.“
1 Hurt, Angel Antonio Martinez Arrested after Hit-and-Run Pedestrian Crash on Snyder Lane [Rohnert Park, CA]
ROHNERT PARK, CA (May 13, 2024) – Angel Antonio Martinez was arrested Friday morning and a minor was injured in a hit-and-run pedestrian accident on Snyder Lane. The incident occurred at approximately 8:30 a.m., near Hinebaugh Creek and Rancho Cotate High School. According to reports, a white Ford Mustang...
Sonoma County supervisors send factory farm measure to ballot, reluctantly
A controversial initiative that would make Sonoma County the first county in the nation to outlaw so-called “factory farms” is headed for the November ballot as Measure J. After hearing from department heads on the likely impacts of the measure, Sonoma County supervisors reluctantly voted 4-0 Tuesday to put it before voters.
Meet the Sonoma County vintner behind CBS’s ‘Fire Country’
Max Thieriot is the vintner of Senses Wines in Occidental. He’s also the creator, director and star of a TV show.|. With the season finale of CBS’s “Fire Country” coming up on May 17, fans are trying to tease out the combustible love triangle at its center.
Scottish fiddlers to charm downtown Santa Rosa
Musicians pick the music they play, but sometimes you wonder if the music picks them. Growing up in Scotland, Alasdair Fraser started taking violin lessons at age eight. In his teens, he studied the work of the great Scottish fiddlers and went on to win the Scottish National Fiddle Championship twice.
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