May 2026
Wine Country Gazette
The slow goodbye finally has a date. Medtronic told its 370 Santa Rosa workers on Wednesday that the company will shut its Fountaingrove campus by spring 2028, ending a presence in Sonoma County that began in 1998 with what was then one of the largest medical-device deals in California history.Th...
The Mendocino Voice | Mendocino County, CA
The general manager's hiring — and firing — has created a rift between the board and the grocery's workers.
The Mendocino Voice
UKIAH, CA., 5/8/26 — Ukiah Natural Foods Co-op, the 50-year-old member-owned grocery at the center of Mendocino County’s organic-food economy, is without a general manager again. Robert Drake, hired this spring to replace longtime manager Lori Rosenberg, was terminated days after more than half t...
Wine Country Gazette
Robledo Family Winery, founded by a man whose father was a Bracero, joins the worst quarter California wine has seen in years.