Monte Rio News

The idea of the supper club - getting together with a group of friends and strangers to enjoy a prix-fixe dinner with a bottle of your own wine - is starting to take root in Wine Country.

Spectacular thunder and lightning over the North Bay Monday morning sparked 18 small fires in Sonoma County, sending state firefighters scrambling to find them.

We're all pulling for the bear that's out enjoying the smorgasbord from west county garbage cans, gardens and compost piles, and that may have killed two goats in Monte Rio.

A Monte Rio family suspect a bear killed their two goats this week after several encounters with the animal in and around their livestock pen.

A Sebastopol man was arrested Saturday for suspected assault with a deadly weapon after he allegedly threatened a Monte Rio woman with a gun and then fired a single round into the street because she voiced concern about a fight she had overheard, the Sonoma County Sheriff's Office said.

Allegedly speeding and driving drunk, a Rohnert Park resident was arrested after crashing into several trees along Armstrong Woods Road, the CHP said Tuesday.

The fate of the aging and underutilized community center in Occidental has spawned a bitter controversy that has split neighbors over questions of how best to use public Residents of the unincorporated town were surprised to discover earlier this year that their community center appeared to have been designated as the future hub of something called ... (more)

Jim Leddy, Sonoma County's community and government affairs manager, has been hired by Mono County as its top administrative officer.