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Executive Editor Dan Evans writes about the recent threats to local newspapers and urges those that cover Napa County to treat their competitors with more respect.

Homeowners in the county will be eligible for the loans if they comply with affordability requirements for five years.

Napa County has approved seven Verizon cell antennas on telephone poles along Silverado Trail and a 60-foot-tall monopole disguised as a cedar near Soda Canyon, but none required a public hearing. All are in county right-of-ways along rural roads, so the rules are different than for private property. All received the required encroachment permit from the county staff. Should Napa County in such cases require public hearings before the Planning Commission? Public comments during last Tuesday’s county Board of Supervisors meeting showed not everyone in the community is on the same waveleng...

A proposal to create housing on Oat Hill in American Canyon is colliding with the Napa County Airport Land Use Compatibility Plan. R.H. Hess Development wants to build 291 multifamily homes on this 250-foot-high city landmark about 1.5 miles from the airport. But 51 of the homes would be within an airport compatibility zone where homes are prohibited. For the Airport Land Use Commission on Wednesday, the decision proved to be straightforward. Members said some of the proposed homes are in "Zone D," so they had to find the proposed project inconsistent with the plan. Support local news coverag...

“And then one day you find, 10 years have got behind you . . . .” — from “Time” by Pink Floyd I pitched an idea in 2011 to Daily Republic Managing Editor Glen Faison about doing a new column in addition to my Monday “The Last Laugh” humor column that was “kinda sorta about local history.” “Back in t