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The Donn P. Reisen Memorial Scholarship was created in honor of ZAP co-founder and longtime Ridge Vineyards President Donn Reisen who passed away in early 2009.

MY dad was a dog trainer and handler like his father before him. We lived in Madison, N.J., across the street from the dog kennel on the estate of Geraldine Rockefeller Dodge, a prominent dog fancier.

Published: Wednesday, December 2, 2009 at 6:58 p.m. Last Modified: Wednesday, December 2, 2009 at 6:58 p.m. With record-shattering numbers of applicants vying for a shrinking number of places at California universities, stress is the word of the day for area seniors.

Published: Wednesday, December 2, 2009 at 8:10 p.m. Last Modified: Wednesday, December 2, 2009 at 8:17 p.m. Sonoma State University expects to raise student fees 10 percent in the next academic year and is bracing for a budget shortfall of $4 million or more, university administrators warned Wednesday.

Published: Wednesday, December 2, 2009 at 10:00 a.m. Last Modified: Wednesday, December 2, 2009 at 10:00 a.m. A Sonoma County judge this afternoon will rule on whether he will reduce or let stand a more than 12-year prison sentence he handed down to a Central Valley prosecutor's son convicted this year in a fatal drunken-driving crash.

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger appointed Larry Mulryan of San Rafael to a board seat on the state Compensation Insurance Fund.

American power metal band IN VIRTUE will release its long-awaited debut CD, "Delusions of Grandeur" , on December 11.

Published: Friday, November 27, 2009 at 7:39 a.m. Last Modified: Friday, November 27, 2009 at 8:20 a.m. Josh Leard didn't want to risk missing out on the $197 Hewlett-Packard laptop on sale Friday at Best Buy, so he did what any reasonable 22-year-old would.

But after he had listened to every audiobook available for rent at his local library in Santa Rosa, Praetzellis decided to create his own audio recordings of books in the public domain.

Courtesy of Sonoma State University and eWinerySolutions.com . The winning winery will receive both the completed new design and the ecommerce website, and free hosting and maintenance services for one year from launch date...The website will be designed and built by Sonoma State student teams during the 2010 Spring semester, under the guidance and ...

Published: Thursday, November 19, 2009 at 3:00 a.m. Last Modified: Thursday, November 19, 2009 at 10:54 p.m. Sonoma State University faculty members are demanding that administrators explain discrepancies in their public statements about an SSU Academic Foundation loan to former board member Clem Carinalli.

I am heartbroken. It has been over a week now, and I still cannot shake the Ft. Hood tragedy, which reaches deeply into this military veteran's soul and feels like a wound to my body.

Project Censored, founded by Carl Jensen in 1976, is a media research program cooperating with numerous independent media groups in the U.S. Its principle objective is training Sonoma State University students in media research, First Amendment issues and the advocacy for, and protection of, free press rights in the United States.

Published: Friday, November 13, 2009 at 3:00 a.m. Last Modified: Friday, November 13, 2009 at 10:50 p.m. For nearly a decade, the Sonoma State University Academic Foundation made sure every loan it gave to former board member Clem Carinalli was secured with deeds that entitled it to seize valuable real estate if the loans went bad.

The company is Invitations by Ajalon Printing and Design, based in Santa Rosa, CA and the new employee, Dean Tisthammer, will work in the wedding invitation division.

Published: Thursday, November 12, 2009 at 6:19 p.m. Last Modified: Thursday, November 12, 2009 at 6:19 p.m. Back on campus after a two-day break, Santa Rosa Junior College students slowly learned - the low-tech way - what happened there Tuesday morning.

Information continues to come in about the blue whale that washed ashore Oct. 19 south of the Botanical Garden.

A photo is worth a thousand words, as the saying goes, but your Facebook photo might be worth more.

Published: Wednesday, November 11, 2009 at 8:51 a.m. Last Modified: Wednesday, November 11, 2009 at 8:51 a.m. A Sebastopol man has been convicted through DNA evidence of sexually assaulting a 22-year-old Sonoma State University student outside a gas station in 2007.

Skiff and Denise Peters, of Red Bluff, announce the engagement of their daughter, Allegra Peters, to John Thornton Davis, the son of John A. and Sandra Davis, of Carlsbad.