SR Community Health Centers to build $6 million clinic
Santa Rosa Community Health Centers is planning to build a $6 million medical clinic in west Santa Rosa by summer of 2017, the 10th health center for the rapidly growing health care provider. The 24,000-square-foot facility, which would offer dental, mental health and primary care medical services, underscores the growing role such clinics play in a health […]
Kaiser to build new facility Santa Rosa
Groundbreaking that was scheduled to take place Oct. 28 on a new Kaiser Permanente medical office building in southwest Santa Rosa has been postponed due to continued rain. Officials said a new date will be announced once it is confirmed. The three-story facility, to be located at 2240 Mercury Way, will offer a wide-range of primary and […]
Lagunitas cuts water footprint
Water is basically everything for humans. We need it to live, and we need it to make beer. And some other stuff (we’re sure of it). Water is also a finite resource, especially out in California these days. This is what makes the work of Cambrian Innovation, provider of advanced biotechnology products for industrial businesses, so […]
Bellwether Farms Launches Blackstone
Bellwether Farms, renowned for nearly 30 years of making award-winning sheep milk and cow milk cheeses, has unveiled its first mixed-milk cheese, named Blackstone. The handsome 3-1/4 pound wheels are a blend of local Jersey cow and sheep milk, dotted with black peppercorns and sporting a gorgeous dark rind. The rind results from a mixture […]
Pliny the Younger
February’s release of Pliny the Younger generated almost $5 million in economic impact from those who traveled from outside the county to taste the world-famous beer, according to a survey by the Sonoma County Economic Development Board. The board found this year’s two-week event at the Russian River Brewing Co. in downtown Santa Rosa brought in $4.88 […]
Beauty, Truth, and The Girls:
Emma Cline’s debut novel, The Girls, may be loosely based on the Manson murders, but it isn’t really about Manson at all—it’s about the women around him, those attracted to life at the edge of the world. Though the book circles around the blunt facts of Manson’s crimes, it sidesteps the particulars, reducing him to a […]
Maker Certificate Program
Working with maker educators from throughout the Bay Area and with support from Maker Media, Inc., Sonoma State University, School of Extended and International Education and the Sonoma County Office of Education have collaborated to create the Maker Certificate Program, the first such program of its kind. The program offers a series of mini-courses designed […]
Sunset magazine to move test gardens
Sunset magazine will make Cornerstone Sonoma the home of its main gardens and outdoor test kitchen, a move that is expected to revitalize the Sonoma Valley attraction by drawing a new wave of international attention — and visitors — to the region. The popular Time Inc. publication, known mostly for its lifestyle magazine and online website […]
Housing projects get off the ground
Across the street from Rohnert Park’s Green Music Center, construction workers are transforming a wide tract of land into the largest homebuilding site for Sonoma County in years. In the coming months, three separate housing companies are slated to construct a total of 175 single-family homes on what was once farmland off Rohnert Park Expressway. The […]
Larger terminal for Sonoma County airport
A backpack on his shoulders and sandals on his feet, Healdsburg sculptor T Barney was waiting for his luggage to arrive Wednesday at the Charles M. Schulz-Sonoma County Airport, with only a few dozen other travelers on hand. Barney, who flies out of the local airport about eight times a year, said the terminal is rarely […]
