Feature · YIMBY: Advocating for Affordable Housing by Jean Saylor Doppenberg· December 7, 2022 5:27 pm·Jordan Carbajal’s life is an immigrant’s success story: a 4-year-old who speaks no English leaves his home in Peru to…
Feature · Santa Rosa’s New Approach to Crisis Response by Jean Saylor Doppenberg· December 7, 2022 2:01 pm·The very first call for the services of the new inRESPONSE mental health mobile team, which hit the streets of…
Feature · Baking a Legacy by Jean Saylor Doppenberg· November 15, 2022 11:48 am·Bread has been an important and ubiquitous food staple for thousands of years. You likely can’t remember not having bread…
Feature · Five Years Later by Jean Saylor Doppenberg· October 12, 2022 11:58 am·What a long, strange trip it’s been. Five years ago the North Bay was devastated by wildfires that destroyed thousands…
Feature · In Search of Gold by Jean Saylor Doppenberg· August 2, 2022 8:00 am·Despite a tight local labor market and more jobs available than there are people to fill them, some staffing firms…
Feature · Saving Every Precious Drop by Jean Saylor Doppenberg· July 14, 2022 7:29 pm·California was always part of the Wild West from way back, says Chiatri de Laguna Farm owner Wendy Krupnick, who…
Feature · The Queen of Green by Jean Saylor Doppenberg· June 1, 2022 12:36 pm·As a child, Karissa Kruse watched her grandparents in Nebraska run their farm during her summer vacations from school. “I…
Feature · On the Road to Change by Jean Saylor Doppenberg· March 31, 2022 2:52 pm·Ford Pro and Sonoma County Winegrape Growers partner together to reduce greenhouse gases. The road to reducing greenhouse gases created…
Feature · Winemaker Moms by Jean Saylor Doppenberg· March 1, 2022 1:34 pm·“One day I was working the grape harvest and the next day I had a baby,” says Abby Watt, winemaker…
Feature · Finding Hope by Jean Saylor Doppenberg· January 31, 2022 2:15 pm·The lingering effects of the pandemic on what was once our “normal” lives have been difficult to overcome for many…