Napa artist Gordon Huether: Heart, soul, entrepreneurship

DoorDash (NYSE: DASH), a major U.S. player in third-party delivery from restaurants, coffee shops and increasingly grocery and convenience stores, wants to open one of its new delivery hubs in Santa Rosa. An affiliate of the San Francisco-based company leased a 9,380-square-foot former Performance Shoes space at 1993 Santa Rosa...

Traps in a residential area east of Sonoma have confirmed the presence of a new pest that’s a bane for citrus nurseries. Asian citrus psyllid can carry and vector a disease called citrus greening disease, or Huanglongbing, the Sonoma County Department of Agriculture / Weights & Measures today announced Thursday.

Winemaker Ted Edwards has announced his retirement after 42 years from Freemark Abbey in Calistoga. Edwards announced in 2020 he was stepping into a emeritus role and that Kristy Melton would be working with him and take over the winemaker’s role. He began his career as an assistant winemaker...

In seven days, the North Bay’s passenger rail system received a sudden avalanche of $74 million for a long-stalled effort to bring the train tracks north to Healdsburg. The first boon came last week, when the California Supreme Court dismissed a long-running lawsuit from a tax advocacy group, freeing up Bay Area bridge toll dollars that includes $40 million for the Sonoma-Marin Area Rail Transit.

Elizabeth Smith has been appointed executive director of Peacetown, a Sebastopol-based nonprofit with a stated mission to ”promote and encourage peace in the individual, the community and the world. Peacetown will do this through events, classes and community gatherings. We will aim to raise funds for the Peacetown Trust...

Plans are underway to bring the movies back to Larkspur Landing. Tucked away but in the middle of a major transit hub along Highway 101 and across from the Marin Country Mart shopping center, the theater at the 1.57-acre site at 500 Larkspur Landing Circle was quietly closed in September when its lease was up.

A national behavioral health company that treats mental health and substance abuse disorders in teens and young adults plans to open a location in Marin County by mid-April. Chandler, Arizona-based Embark Behavioral Health, which operates a network of more than 30 programs in 25 states, is preparing to move into an 8,000-square-foot space at 4000 Civic Center Drive, Suite 102, San Rafael.

Nearly 10 months after scrapping plans to build new government offices in downtown Santa Rosa, the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors has tentatively endorsed a concept that outlines phased construction of new offices on the existing campus in northern Santa Rosa. The board has not committed to a specific building...

The first phase of residential development at the Napa Pipe property, representing 79 homes across three blocks, is moving into the city of Napa's public approval process. The city's Planning Commission on Thursday evening is set to decide whether to recommend approving the subdivision — proposed by Brookfield Bay Area Holdings LLC — to the Napa City Council, which is scheduled to consider the project later this month. Should that approval process move forward, construction on the Napa Pipe subdivision is scheduled to begin this year, according to previous Register reporting.

Petaluma’s Planning Commission took another look last week at the Scannell Mixed-Use Development, a massive project proposed for the 500 block of Hopper Street, and again found it wanting. The proposal by Scannell Properties – which calls for 475 residential units and 4,200 square feet of commercial space on...

Exchange Bank (OTC: EXSR) reported Tuesday earnings for the last quarter of 2022 declined from a year before, but full-year earnings were up. At $9.64 million, quarterly net income slipped a little over 2% from the fourth quarter of 2021, the Santa Rosa-based bank stated. However, earnings were $37.48 million...