Rob Anglin News Today

Napa County is looking at a possible development agreement for a proposed rural hotel near Freemark Abbey outside St. Helena.

The planned Vida Valiente winery was denied by the Planning Commission after contentious hearings. The case looks to be headed to the Board of Supervisors.

The Napa County Planning Commission rejected the proposed Vida Valiente winery because it would be along a narrow road in a fire-prone area.

Sushi Ninja was founded in 2019 by Hanh Tran as a way to teach the Rochester community how to make sushi affordably at home.

Napa County supervisors want the proposed The Inn at the Abbey boutique hotel to further address employee housing.

Howard Yune, Register  Kayla Maynard of the American Canyon 4-H club exhibited her pig Chunk for bidders at Saturdays annual Napa Junior Livestock Auction, which took place in the pavilion of the Napa Valley Expo. After a one-year swtich in 2020 to an online format in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the auction returned to an in-person event with seating for more than 500 people. Howard Yune, Register  Auctioneer Randy Parnell took bids from an audience gathered at the Napa Valley Expo pav...

The battle between Mayor Geoff Ellsworth and Upper Valley Disposal Service escalated this week, with the company’s chief operating officer calling on him to resign. Rob Anglin, an attorney for UVDS, told the city on Monday that Ellsworth solicited the waste management firm Recology to provide service to the City of St. Helena. UVDS and Clover Flat Landfill have exclusive long-term franchise agreements with the Upper Valley Waste Management Agency (UVWMA) to provide waste management service...

The St. Helena City Council will not pursue disciplinary measures against Mayor Geoff Ellsworth after an inquiry found that Ellsworth’s recent criticism of Upper Valley Disposal Service was not a “material violation” of the council’s Standards of Conduct. The matter involved whether the mayor violated the standards by failing to specify that he was writing on his own behalf, not as mayor, when he raised environmental and safety concerns about UVDS and Clover Flat in a Feb. 8...

Staglin Family Vineyard asked to quadruple visitation, a group of rural neighbors pleaded for far less and the Napa County Planning Commission came up with a number somewhere in-between. Whether commissioners satisfied anyone with their Wednesday decision remains to be seen. Neither the attorneys representing the Staglins nor the neighborhood group could be reached afterward for comment. Once again, the issue involved a winery along a narrow, rural, dead-end road that also has homes, in this ca...