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George Fiori Jr., beloved Santa Rosa restaurateur, dies at 80 (opens the original)
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George Fiori Jr., a burly, boyish Sonoma County restaurateur and bar owner who remembered when Santa Rosa really knew how to party, died Sept. 16 at his home in north Santa Rosa. He was 80. A scion of the famously hospitable Fiori family, which opened its first restaurant in Occidental in 1935, Fiori was a standout baseball, football and softball player before spending much of his life feeding and entertaining people at a succession of Sonoma County establishments. For several years, he endured
Steve Garner, longtime Sonoma County radio host, dies at 77 (opens the original)
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Steve Garner, whose golden voice and passion for food, wine, gardening and life animated Sonoma County’s airwaves for nearly 40 years, died Sunday, Sept. 13. He was 77. Born in Chicago and raised in Kentucky, Garner was a Renaissance man known locally for “The Good Food Hour,” the weekly KSRO radio program he co-hosted with acclaimed chef John Ash. Beginning in 1987, Garner and Ash explored food and wine from nearly every angle, continuing together until shortly before Ash’s death at 83 in Augus
Joe Anderson, Benovia Winery owner, Sonoma County philanthropist, dies at 76 (opens the original)
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Joe Anderson, a man of action, compassion and philanthropy, who co-founded the Russian River Valley’s acclaimed Benovia Winery, died Aug. 4. He was 76. Anderson achieved success in government work in his native Arizona and then in private healthcare management before he and his wife, Mary Dewane, purchased a landmark pinot noir vineyard west of Santa Rosa in 2003. Two years later, they opened Benovia. The couple gave generously to causes close to their hearts and they reached beyond the clouds t
At 91, Mary Moore is back with Bohemian Grove protesters, and reflecting on her decades in progressive activism (opens the original)
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For 50 years, Mary Moore of west Sonoma County has resided just down the road from the sprawling and storied Bohemian Grove redwood camp. Yet she’s never placed in it so much as a toe. At 91, Moore, widely seen as the grand dame of the region’s leftward peace-and-justice community, may be best known for all the time she’s stood outside the grove gate, stirring the pot. The resident of Camp Meeker, located along Bohemian Highway about five miles south of the Bohemian Grove and the Russian River t
Bohemian Grove: ‘Merely a playground’ for male elite or shrouded retreat with global reach? (opens the original)
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Editor’s Note: This is a sidebar accompanying a profile of longtime Sonoma County activist Mary Moore, who for decades spearheaded demonstrations focused on the Bohemian Grove, its secretive membership and proceedings. Each July, someone new is surprised to hear or read about the Bohemian Grove Midsummer Encampment, one of the nation’s oldest and most secretive annual getaways for men. And, one of the most envied and impugned. Especially astonishing to those previously unaware of the Boho Grove
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