While much of the California wine business pulls vines and trims payroll, Brassfield Estate Winery has spent the downturn buying land and hiring salespeople, betting on an estate model almost nobody else still runs.
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Clear Lake, the only active drinking-water source for the Clearlake Oaks County Water District. (Federico Pizano via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0, September 2013)
Clearlake Oaks water, sewer bills head 61% higher by 2031
Clearlake Oaks County Water District’s five-year rate schedule takes a home’s combined water and sewer base bill from $129.11 to $207.63 a month — while a $36 million state grant awaits a signed agreement.
Clearlake weighs a Clear Lake pact that gained a seventh tribe
The Clearlake City Council takes up the Clear Lake watershed co-management agreement Thursday. The version in front of it lists 23 governments, one more than Lake County supervisors approved in July. Koi Nation is the addition.
Upper Lake wells still pumping past a 2022 state deadline
State regulators gave the Meadow Pointe water system five years to get off gasoline-contaminated wells. The deadline passed in December 2022. Since 2017, $1.3 million has gone to studies and nothing to construction.
Clearlake recruits for a sewer board seat not yet created
The city is taking applications for a public seat on the Lake County Sanitation District board. Supervisors decide Aug. 18 whether the seat exists — and a doubled sewer bill is waiting behind it.
Napa’s tourism economy broke even last year. Sonoma, Mendocino and Lake lost ground
A new Visit Napa Valley study puts the valley first in its competitive set on familiarity, perception and likelihood to visit. State data covering all four North Coast counties shows what that was worth once you subtract inflation.