• Napa County Assessor John Tuteur and staff are working to review all properties that may have declined in value as of Jan. 1, 2009. A property’s assessed value determines the amount of annual property tax the owner pays. All single family homes in the municipalities and homes in the unincorporated area on less than five acres are being reviewed without the owner needing to contact the assessor. Owners of other residential, commercial or industrial properties are urged to contact the assessor if they believe the value of the property had declined by Jan. 1, 2009, to a level below its factored base-year value as shown on the 2008-2009 property tax bill. Owners can contact Tuteur at 253-4459 or jtuteur@co.napa.ca.us. Results of the decline in value review will be sent to property owners in July 2009.

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.

Support for U.S. troops can be expressed many different ways.

American Canyon High School doesn’t have any students yet, but it already has a major benefactor.

With support from the new Avia hotel, the city will install a new elevator in the Clay Street garage before year’s end.

The rumbling felt by some West Pueblo Avenue residents Friday was not a renegade firework going off.

Two women went to jail over the weekend charged in two separate incidents of domestic violence.

The Napa Police Department is investigating a case of arson that occurred Saturday night.

A motorcyclist died Sunday after he lost control and slid into an oncoming car on Steele Canyon Road north of Highway 128.

High temperatures and expected poor air quality for Tuesday have prompted officials to declare a Spare The Air day for Tuesday.

While the Great Depression began 80 years ago and ended with the advent of World War II, many Napans remember those days. A few recently shared their memories with the Register. See the essays by Phil Jerome, Gloria McFarland Morris and Artis Tranmer in section C.

California Pizza on Jefferson Street hosts work by artists from the Brown Street Gallery with the show Pizza Box Art. The Brown Street Gallery is a nonprofit creative arts program in which artists with developmental disabilities create, exhibit and sell their work. The Pizza Box Art show will be available for viewing until Wednesday. Pictured is work by Veda Davalos.