All clips written by Roger Coryell, owned by their publishers
Walkers leave Chico on Sunday to trek to Covelo, 100 miles west over the north coast mountains, with a wildfire burning in the county they’re headed for. They’re going anyway.
Ask around Mendocino County for the oldest bar, and you’ll get a confident answer, then another one, then a third. All can be right, because nobody is answering the same…
The town of St. Helena got its first municipal water company on July 27, 1878. The St. Helena Star announced it that morning: "It gives us great pleasure to record…
DESCENDANTS OF THE POMO who survived the 1850 Bloody Island Massacre still live around Clear Lake. Many can’t drive into town without passing a name that, to them, honors one…
LEE MARTINELLI SR. IS 87, and he can read his family on the trunks of his vineyard the way other people read a photo album. On the 60-degree slope of…
Drive south on Highway 101 toward Hopland, and you'll pass a turnoff for McNab Ranch Road. Most people zip by without noticing. But that little road is the namesake of…
This fall marks the 200th wine grape harvest in Sonoma Valley — a bicentennial milestone for the region long considered the birthplace of California wine.
Every town swears it’s unique. Sonoma County went ahead and legislated it. From gas pumps that never shall be to courthouses where even the grass has rights, our patchwork of…
Feel a shake recently? Sonoma County experiences hundreds of tiny earthquakes annually. The legacy of volcanoes has shaped the county’s hills and its fertile soil, leaving behind a geological story…
During the early 1870s in Sonoma County, before vineyards dominated the landscape, a group of local farm boys pursued criminal fortune. Unlike legendary gunslingers, these men were inexperienced—reckless and destined…
In the grand lexicon of life's little surprises, we must now consider the inclusion of the term "Rohnert." Not to be mistaken with a rare breed of miniature schnauzer or…