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

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

The entire corridor from Napa River Terrace Street, going along McKinstry to First Street, and then running west and east between Soscol and Silverado Trail, ceased to be an area designed for the vast majority of Napa County residents the day construction began on the redevelopment of the Napa River Oxbow shoreline and properties.

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

It is too cold and misty for an enjoyable walk in the woods today.

Dear editor, This letter is to add my passionate agreement with the letter of the woman who, after a long day’s work, has her sense of outrage triggered by the sight of a little dog lying down on the center divide at Imola and Soscol.

Dear editor, As I write this letter, I hear the sound of children laughing and playing in the Napa Emergency Women’s Services playroom. I feel grateful their mother is here for help. I think about the violence seen by these children during their young lives and realize the importance of the opportunity NEWS has to make a difference for them.

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.

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.