Led by four eighth-grade girls, three long-standing Silverado Middle School track and field records fell on May 20 at the All-County meet held at Redwood Middle School.

During the early part of Nancy Baty’s 22-year career as a flight attendant, she drew plenty of attention around airports for carrying a tennis racket-shaped bag.

Napa High’s Tatum Souza qualified for the CIF State Track and Field Championships on Thursday with a third-place finish in the women’s long jump on the first day of the Sac-Joaquin Section Masters Meet at Sacramento City College’s Hughes Stadium.

Back in 2003 at the Napa Valley Opera House, I was in the audience the night stage and screen actor Ben Gazzara — a one-man show — took on the role of the one and only Lawrence Yogi Berra in a bittersweet performance titled “Nobody Don’t Like Yogi.”

With the resounding defeat of five of the six propositions in this month’s special election — and a looming, massive $23 billion budget shortfall — Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has once again proposed to subsidize the General Fund by transferring monies from the Fish and Game Preservation Fund.

NOTES AND QUOTES for a Friday in the Napa Valley:

The Wine Country Classic Historic Car Races return to Sonoma, May 30-31, as the best in vintage racing and the Sonoma Valley Wine Country converge on Infineon Raceway.

The Napa Valley Register’s coverage of the 2008 Louie Vermeil Classic for sprint cars at Calistoga Speedway has won an award from a national organization of motorsports writers and broadcasters.

Former Napan Ben Matthews, right, poses with “Big George” Matthews of Napa and a 60-inch, 65-pound sturgeon they hauled in while fishing on a party boat, The Right Hook, in the Suisun Slough.

Here’s a look at the latest local angling action: