“It’s a nice honor, but my head doesn’t grow because of it,” said Ed Barwick, a straight-shooting ex-Napa car dealer, ex-council member and for 35 years running the announcer of Napa High School football games.

To keep household taps flowing even in dry years, Napa is launching the most expensive public works project in city history, more than doubling the size of its Jamieson Canyon water treatment plant.

After two uncontested elections to the Napa County Board of Supervisors, Mark Luce’s free ride to elected office is over.

Hundreds of wizards, magical folk and Muggles swarmed to local bookstores Friday night — all in the name of a now-famous boy wizard — Harry Potter.

Since 1957 the Napa Valley Register has seen floods and fires, a move from our old digs to new ones, a change in our name and countless changes in the community, but one constant remains: Geraldine Nalley, a professional in our ad services department, today marks 50 years at the Register.

Napa Police officers arrested a Napa woman on suspicion of domestic violence.

Napa Police officers arrested Steven Richard Kidwell, 43, of Napa, on suspicion of child abuse, resisting arrest and violation of probation Friday evening.

Napa drug enforcement agents arrested a Solano County man in connection with the sale of drugs in Napa County.

A night of drinking landed one Napa man in jail early Saturday morning and another in the hospital with major head injuries. California Highway Patrol officers say that alcohol was a factor in the accident that sent two men to the hospital, and later one of them to jail.

Gabriel Francis Hernandez was acting strangely early Friday night according to his neighbors.

To keep household taps flowing even in dry years, Napa is launching the most expensive public works project in city history, more than doubling the size of its Jamieson Canyon water treatment plant.

A night of drinking landed one Napa man in jail early Saturday morning and another in the hospital with major head injuries. California Highway Patrol officers say that alcohol was a factor in the accident that sent two men to the hospital, and later one of them to jail.

Hundreds of wizards, magical folk and Muggles swarmed to local bookstores Friday night — all in the name of a now-famous boy wizard – Harry Potter.

Since 1957 the Napa Valley Register has seen floods and fires, a move from our old digs to new ones, a change in our name and countless changes in the community, but one constant remains: Geraldine Nalley, a professional in our ad services department, today marks 50 years at the Register.

Gabriel Francis Hernandez was acting strangely early Friday night according to his neighbors.

“It’s a nice honor, but my head doesn’t grow because of it,” said Ed Barwick, a straight-shooting ex-Napa car dealer, ex-council member and for 35 years running the announcer of Napa High School football games.

Napa drug enforcement agents arrested a Solano County man in connection with the sale of drugs in Napa County.

Napa Police officers arrested a Napa woman on suspicion of domestic violence.

Napa Police officers arrested Steven Richard Kidwell, 43, of Napa, on suspicion of child abuse, resisting arrest and violation of probation Friday evening.

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