Monte Rio News

Published: Tuesday, November 3, 2009 at 12:37 p.m. Last Modified: Tuesday, November 3, 2009 at 12:37 p.m. A tree trimmer fell 40 feet from a redwood tree in Monte Rio Tuesday morning.

Vira Burgerman is California's only licensed mermaid. "It makes people take me a little more seriously," she explains of being officially registered as a trademark mermaid.

BLUESTATE Our newest CD Duracool will be done soon, so give a listen to a preview on our Music page, then get yourself a copy at one of these upcoming gigs:Saturday, October 17 from 2 to 5 p.m. Half Moon Bay Pumpkin Festival, South Stage at the Gazebo, Main St.

It's a juicy nugget for the worldwide press, tripping alarms on the cable news fear-o-meter. Anderson Cooper of CNN has the graphics to prove it and a roster of experts to explain how the local area where police say Jaycee Dugard was held in sexual bondage for 18 years has fast become a dense haven for registered sex offenders.

A Guerneville man will undergo a mental health evaluation over the next 90 days before he is sentenced in Sonoma County Superior Court for an assault with a bow and arrow in January.

A Monte Rio man has been sentenced to 36-years-to-life for the January 1st killing of his domestic partner.

A Monte Rio man has been sentenced to 36-years-to-life for the January 1st killing of his domestic partner.

An Oakland man who was pulled by his friends from the Russian River late Sunday afternoon died Sunday night at Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital.

An Oakland man who was pulled by his friends from the Russian River late Sunday afternoon died Sunday night at Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital.

An Oakland man who was pulled by his friends from the Russian River late Sunday afternoon died Sunday night at Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital.

Sonoma County District Attorney Stephan Passalacqua announced that on July 16, 2009, a jury found Bret Arnold Matz guilty of the murder of his domestic partner, Robert August Guess.

In an online Wall Street Journal essay, Joseph Epstein of Evanston, Ill., cites an academic and sociologist who "judged a city by the number of blocks of interesting shops it contained.

One of the guaranteed delights of the Monte Rio Variety Show is that the audience never knows who's going to show up.

By Brenda Adelman Memorial Day Weekend, Russian River Watershed Protection Committee and friends began clicking away at popular Russian River locations.

Bill Mann is a renowned media writer and blogger for, among other publications, Huffingtonpost.com and used to pen for the old SF Examiner and Oakland Tribune .

The trial for Bret Matz, 47, of Monte Rio is nearing opening arguments. He is accused of beating to death his 46-year-old partner, Robert Guess, with a lamp on Jan.

The Sotomayor Hearing and other news ROBERT DIGITALE from Santa Rosa Press-Democrat on Monday on July 13, 2009 exposed the reality that the 2009 Bohemian Grove meeting is getting underway.

When a story in The San Francisco Chronicle contains an error in the very first sentence, you can bet the rest of it will be junk too.

More than 500 people lined up Tuesday in Santa Rosa to compete for just 70 jobs at a new hardware store.

B ig Changes at Pegasus Theater Company" was the eye-grabbing headline that appeared several weeks ago on the Pegasus Theater Company's website, accompanied by a long letter explaining the gory details: after more than 10 years at Monte Rio's Pegasus Hall - the theater for which Pegasus was named - the scrappy little river town theater troupe was ...