Cornerstone Equestrian Center is a refuge where the heady scents of leather, earth and horses intertwine. When Napan Martha Waddell arrived there for her first lesson six months ago, an instructor asked what she hoped to gain from her sessions.

Construction of St. Helena’s $30 million-plus flood control project will be postponed until 2009 while property acquisition issues are worked out, city officials announced this week.

A female bicyclist ended up in the emergency room when she crashed her bike on Silverado Trail north of Highway 128 on Friday morning.

When I was asked to reflect on my 30 years in the newspaper business in Napa County, I thought it would be easy to describe with a few examples and anecdotes.

Click it or ticket. Sounds easy enough. Climb into your car, grab your seat belt and “click it.”

One of the only national anthems set in a minor key, “Hatikva” intones the hope for an independent Jewish state — a hope realized by the Jewish people 60 years ago and honored on Thursday night at Napa’s Congregation Beth Sholom.