"Winter Break" starts Dec. 13 for Napa schools, and most of the kids can't wait!

Four Christmases ago my sister and I got the best Christmas present anyone could ever wish for: A puppy! My parents planned the whole thing to its tiniest detail and made my grandparents accomplices in order to make the surprise the best ever.

Cadillacs, Mercuries and V-8 Fords. Maybe a GTO. Those are the cars songwriters think about when they pen odes to automobiles.

Carneros Elementary School would like to publicly acknowledge the businesses and service clubs that have reaped so many wonderful gifts on us this year.

Have any of you taken on the challenge of getting out on the newest half-mile racing straight-away in Solano County?

Pete Knight, a retired Air Force test pilot who set a speed record in the X-15 rocket plane, was elected to the state Assembly in 1992 and later shifted into the state Senate.

Dear editor,

Dear editor,

Dear editor,

These are my favorite books for this year, in no particular order. I have my own particular standards, which include the fact that I hardly read fiction any more so these are all non fiction. Also, they may not have original publishing dates of 2008 but are all recent and I read them myself this year.

I was stunned when I saw this, because Cheney has directly admitted to doing something that is not only illegal, but is a major crime. In an interview with ABC News he almost casually admitted "getting the process cleared" and supporting it. He was still lying, because he pushed for "taking the gloves off" with captured enemy combatants early on and was the main driver of the program of torture that was instituted beginning back in 2001.

Sure, the section is called MomsTalk, but Dads can chime in too.

Do you clean out closets before the holidays or wait until after?

Here is your chance to sound off on any topic that is not covered today by a Register.com article/opinion item.