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Also on today's calendar: Harvest Tour and Tasting at Whitehall Lane Winery and 9 more events.
Today's riddle: What gets bigger the more you take away? 🤔 (Answer below!)
1. Updated: Napa Man Arrested for a Series of Residential Burglaries (contracosta.news) — Napa County detectives arrested a 44-year-old Napa man they link to a string of residential burglaries in the Hagen Road and Hillcrest Drive areas, along with a related Pleasant Hill case. Investigators say he targeted homes with unlocked doors or windows and sold stolen jewelry locally, and they're now asking Napa County residents to review surveillance footage and report any similar thefts.
2. How Napa County is working to ease permitting for music festivals, other special events (pressdemocrat.com) — If you host festivals or large gatherings in unincorporated Napa County, new rules could soon make permits easier to get, with longer lead times, online applications, and more flexibility for late filings. Supervisors are weighing nonprofit cost concerns and plan outreach and feedback once the streamlined ordinance, slated for Jan. 1, 2027, comes up for final approval Sept. 15.
3. Napa County's regional climate action plan enters homestretch (napavalleyregister.com) — Napa County leaders are nearing final decisions on a $1.1 billion climate plan that could reshape how homes, wineries, farms, and tourists use energy and transportation across the valley. The proposal targets carbon neutrality by 2045, with home electrification, fewer parking spaces, more transit, and major changes for wineries and agriculture, while residents and vintners debate costs, pace, and fairness.
4. Napa's Oxbow District gets blazing white gateway sign (pressdemocrat.com) — Drivers and pedestrians in Napa's Oxbow District will now be greeted by a bold new illuminated gateway sign over First Street, created and funded by local business stakeholders. The project is part of a broader wayfinding overhaul that added more than 100 coordinated signs and maps to help people find parking, key destinations, and civic buildings throughout downtown Napa.
5. A wildfire caused millions in damages in Napa County. A winery worker is accused of causing it (latimes.com subscription) — Napa County officials say last year's Pickett fire near Calistoga caused more than $6 million in structural damage and about $65 million in agricultural losses, mostly to wine grapes. A Napa man who worked as a winery gardener now faces a felony charge of recklessly causing the blaze, while lawsuits and disputes continue over who should be held financially responsible.
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