While Merlot is grown throughout the state, it is particularly prominent in Napa, Monterey and Sonoma County.

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* Occidental, California, a town in Sonoma County, California

Waits lives in Sonoma County, California with his wife, Kathleen Brennan, and three children.

In anticipation of the book release, Waits and Anti-printed limited edition chapbooks of the poems to raise money for Redwood Empire Food Bank, a homeless referral and family support service in Sonoma County, California.

Category: People from Sonoma County, California

Some cities or counties also have an annual State of the City Address given by the mayor, county commissioner or board chair, including Sonoma County, California ; Orlando, Florida ; Cincinnati, Ohio ; Parma, Ohio ; Detroit, Michigan ; Seattle, Washington ; Birmingham, Alabama ; Boston, Massachusetts ; Los Angeles, California ; Buffalo, New York ; Rochester, New York ; San Antonio, Texas ; McAllen, Texas ; and San Diego, California.

She moved to Sonoma County, California to settle into married life.

She met Mike Sweeney while still living on the East Coast ; after moving to Sonoma County, California, they married.

Russian colonization of the Americas reached its southernmost point with the 1812 establishment of Fort Ross ( krepost ' rus ), an agricultural, scientific, and fur-trading settlement located in present-day Sonoma County, California.

Members of two more language groups, the Coast Miwok from present Sonoma County and Patwin from present Napa and Solano counties, moved down to Mission San Jose in the 1812-1818 period, but in smaller numbers than the Yokuts.

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Together Burr and Benevides cultivated Cabernet Sauvignon, Chardonnay, and Port grapes, as well as orchids, at Burr's farmland holdings in Sonoma County, California.

Burr threw several " goodbye parties " before his death on September 12, 1993, at his Sonoma County, California ranch near Healdsburg.

Novelist Jack London writes of the struggles of workers in the city of Oakland in his visionary classic, Valley of the Moon, a title evoking the pristine situation of Sonoma County between sea and mountains, Redwoods and Oaks, fog and sunshine.

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* Sonoma County Crushers

Despite the lack of a home stadium, the Warriors made it to the league championship series before being swept by Sonoma County, 3-0.

The Sonoma County Crushers were a minor league baseball team located in Rohnert Park, California.

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Legal issues and financial obligations became overwhelming and coupled with the decline of the Sonoma County Crushers, another of the WBL flagship organizations, the Western Baseball League was dealt a critical blow, and folded shortly after the 2002 season.

Tafoni at Salt Point State Park, Sonoma County, California.

San Luis Obispo County is the third largest producer of wine in California, surpassed only by Sonoma and Napa Counties.

In the spring of 2006, the United States Geological Survey in conjunction with the Sonoma County Water Agency completed a comprehensive basin-wide groundwater study to characterize groundwater resources in the Sonoma Valley.

Sonoma County is bounded on the west by the Pacific Ocean, and has of coastline.

Sonoma County has no incorporated communities directly on the shore of San Pablo Bay.

Sonoma County has nine incorporated municipalities.

Dillon Beach Resort has been owned and operated by Fred and Nancy Cline of Sonoma Valley, California since 2001.

Sonoma State University, a public college about east of the city limits, has an influence on Cotati.

Research on Fort Ross has indicated that several farms were developed inland from the coastal fur trading fort in northwestern Sonoma County.

Sonoma has typical Mediterranean weather with hot, dry summers ( although nights are comfortably cool ) and cool, wet winters.

The Sonoma Index-Tribune from Sonoma Valley Publishing, has been family owned since 1884.

He has spoken at the University of California at Berkeley, City University of New York, Columbia University, Rutgers University, University of California Santa Cruz, Claremont College, New York University, The New School and Sonoma State University.

The United States has increasingly become a major Pinot noir producer, with some of the best regarded coming from the Willamette Valley in Oregon and California's Sonoma County with its Russian River Valley and Sonoma Coast appellations.

The town of Black Mountain, North Carolina has a limited population, and there is a free-flying feral population of several hundred mandarins in Sonoma County, California.

KCSM ’ s 1. 5 million watt broadcast signal has a coverage area that includes San Mateo, San Francisco, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Solano, Sonoma and Napa counties.

* " Before Warm Springs Dam: History of Lake Sonoma Area " This California study has information about one of the first ethnobotanical mitigation projects undertaken in the USA.

Sonoma County has been hit hardest, having more than twice the area of new mortality in relation to any other county in California.

* The Green Music Center at Sonoma State University has a recital hall named after the character due to Jeannie and Charles M. Schulz's contributions to the university and ties to the community.

He has taught astronomy and related courses at Sonoma State University, California State University, Hayward, UC Berkeley, and San Francisco State University.

He has been Senior Scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences ( IONS ), in Petaluma, California, USA, since 2001, and is on the Adjunct Faculty in the Department of Psychology at Sonoma State University, on the Distinguished Consulting Faculty at Saybrook Graduate School and Research Center, and former President of the Parapsychological Association.

* Salt Point State Park in Sonoma County, California has a much smaller pygmy forest and a fifth terrace prairie ranging from 900 to 1000 feet and formerly supporting elk populations.

This does not mean rivers flowed northward from San Jose to Sonoma ; rather, strike-slip movement along the Hayward-Sonoma Valley-Carneros fault system has dislocated present-day Sonoma County north and away from the mountains in San Jose where the basin formed.

In recent years, he has taught at Sonoma State University, San Francisco Institute of Architecture and at California College of Arts & Crafts.

He appeared on more than 50 hours of Star Wars collectibles programming on QVC in the last half of the 1990s, and has amassed the world's largest private collection of Star Wars memorabilia, housed in a private museum — a converted chicken barn — in Sonoma County, Calif. Not abandoning his love of writing, Sansweet has sixteen books to his credit, fourteen of them on Star Wars, including the 1. 2 million word Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia in 2008 and 2009 ’ s Star Wars: 1, 000 Collectibles – Memorabilia and Stories from a Galaxy Far, Far Away.