On Jan. 13, the Register met with four local real estate professionals to discuss the current market. Topics ranged from Federal Housing Authority loans for first-time buyers to advice for prospective borrowers.

In a series of steps strengthening its financial position during the recession, Lee Enterprises, Inc., the parent company of the Napa Valley Register and Napa Valley Publishing, has concluded agreements with existing lenders to refinance $306 million of debt and restructure future payments.

There’s one question that local businessman Myles Davis has an easy answer for.

That’s two chicken tenders, “tucked” into sweet bread dough with Swiss cheese pillows for their heads, camped near a mashed potato cloud in a forest of broccoli. It’s one of the many menu items for kids at the Little Gourmet, a kid’s restaurant that’s grown-up friendly.

When the rates we pay for waste and recycling services increase this July because scrap prices have plummeted, don’t bother asking what that has to do with the price of tea in China. The answer is: everything.

Dear Len & Rosie, My mother is very young, only 60 years old, but she has a degenerative brain disorder that has caused early dementia.