We are offering readers a chance this year to have their Independence Day photos displayed on our Web site for the entire week ater the celebration. Napa has its parade on the 4th, so send us your photos of the parade and we'll put them up right here.

The Napa Valley Register and NapaValleyRegister.com publishes monthly statistics on arrests and convictions for driving under the influence — and so-called “wet reckless” convictions — in Napa County.

More than half of the 80 or so Napa Valley Unified School District teachers who received preliminary layoff notices this spring will hang on to their jobs in the 2009-10 school year, thanks to a mix of good timing and federal stimulus money.

Over the objections of St. Helena parents concerned about the stewardship of local schools, St. Helena Unified School District Board of Trustees went ahead with a plan to award retirement packages to six teachers and two administrators.

After 30 years of wrangling over whether Napa Valley Wine Train should allow passengers to disembark in St. Helena, the first passengers finally touched St. Helena soil on Friday night.