Category: News

September 2, 2021 by Edward Booth A new scholarship offered by the Napa Parks and Recreation Department allows select Napa seniors to take part in local recreation classes for free. To qualify, Napa residents must be age 55 or older, make below the median income in the city — $55,650 for a household of one…

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July 14, 2021 by Dana Cole One year ago the Calistoga Fire Department took delivery of Engine 319, a parting gift from a generous Calistoga donor, facilitated by the Napa Valley Community Foundation. When E-319 went into service last July, it was the newest, most state-of-the-art wildland fire engine in Napa County. It is also…

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June 5, 2021 by Sarah Klearman The outbreaks at River Ranch Farmworker Center began in the summer of 2020. Amid the stress and uncertainty the pandemic had already inflicted on the residents of the county-owned facilities, the center was forced into a kind of lockdown, and each of its almost 60 residents were put into…

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May 14, 2021 by Register Staff Napa Valley Community Foundation has invested $112,500 to help Napa County pay for a multi-year contract with Zonehaven, a Bay Area software company whose evacuation management platform promises to greatly improve the speed and clarity of communications for wildfire evacuation orders and warnings. Currently, evacuation orders and warnings are…

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April 8, 2021 by Register Staff Napa Valley Community Foundation announced the second round of grants from The David and Jane Gotelli Family Fund, which was created through a generous bequest from the late David and Jane Gotelli to support small animals in Napa Valley. The Gotellis were longtime Napa residents who both passed away…

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March 30, 2021 All right, who hasn’t been doing their rain dance? Dear Readers, it’s time to gyrate like your water supply depends on it — because it does. And, on a sober note, please conserve water and keep those showers short and to the point. Rough times could be ahead. *** Huzzahs to the…

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March 23, 2020 by Register Staff In the last 12 months, Napa Valley Community Foundation (NVCF) has granted $5.7 million from the Napa Valley Community Disaster Relief Fund to address the public health and economic impacts of the COVID-19 virus in Napa County. The grants distributed since Napa County’s shelter-at-home order took effect on March…

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March 20, 2021 by Sarah Klearman A note from Sarah Klearman, the Register’s wine industry reporter: It’s been a hell of a year for just about everyone in Napa Valley. My colleagues in the Register’s newsroom and I have seen the twin crises of the pandemic and this past season’s wildfires unfold before our very…

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