Trinity Grammar and Prep student Angelica Figueroa, 11, smiles as dancers swirl around her during a dress rehearsal for “Ceilidh,” an evening of Irish and Scottish entertainment to take place Saturday at Silverado Country Club. The evening of music and dancing, also featuring the Wild Rose Band, the Santa Rosa Scottish Dancers and others, benefits Trinity. Lianne Milton/Register

Despite a slow start, Napa's one-stop federal flood assistance center is now the busiest of all the centers set up by the Federal Emergency Management Agency following California's New Year's Eve floods.

Lou Jefferson -- a writer, musician, former aide to Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and longtime Yountville Town Council member -- died of lung cancer at Napa's Queen of the Valley Hospital on March 4. He was 78.

A lot of Angwin residents are hoping someone will burst their bubble.

The owners of a former Napa nursing home pleaded no contest to criminal charges of neglect Thursday, capping a year-long criminal prosecution a day after company officials agreed to settle a multi-million dollar civil suit filed by the state Attorney General.

As Napa BMX racers are finding out, flood control taketh and flood control giveth.