With the flu season expected to peak within weeks, many Napa Valley residents are finding it difficult to get immunized.

If this week's Napa City Council debate is any indicator, next year's hearings on the city's first condominium conversion applications will be emotional affairs.

Saying it made a mistake almost three years ago, the Napa City Council will try to make amends to residents of Woodlawn Drive in Browns Valley.

Napa's Airport Land Use Commission on Wednesday gave unanimous approval for the proposed golf course at the Montalcino at Napa Resort, slated to break ground sometime in 2006. The 18-hole championship course would consume 450 acre feet of water a year, according to Napa Sanitation District general manager Michael Abramson. "This project is a key part of our recycling program," he told the commission.

Two men were arrested in separate incidents for allegedly helping themselves to merchandise without paying for it at the Target store in South Napa Marketplace.

Since last spring, the students in Kathy Mathe's classroom have been writing to Lance Cpl. Keith Fake, her nephew, who was deployed to Iraq.

Rich LoCicero may be Napa's own anti-Wal-Mart.

Cult winemaker Jayson Woodbridge is going to have to defend allegations that he has repeatedly violated conditions of his use permit and otherwise broken county laws.