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…
Feature · UCPNB: Uniquely Abled by Jean Saylor Doppenberg· January 4, 2022 2:53 pm·Calvin Calloway has been an employee with United Cerebral Palsy of the North Bay for 20 years “give or take,”…
Feature · The Kids Are All Right by Jean Saylor Doppenberg· December 1, 2021 1:28 pm·If there were a succinct way to describe the state of child care and preschool education in the North Bay…
Feature · The Merlot Paradox by Jean Saylor Doppenberg· October 27, 2021 2:12 pm·It’s been 17 years since the film Sideways was unleashed on the American wine-drinking public. Yet the Merlot grape continues…