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W. Howard Lester (August 14, 1935 – November 15, 2010) was an American businessman who took over Williams-Sonoma, Inc. in 1976 and acquired Pottery Barn in 1986, building a major catalog retailer that had more than 600 stores and annual sales of $3.4 billion by the time of his death.
The Sonoma Index was founded in 1879 by Benjamin Frank. [1] [2] The newspaper changed ownership about a dozen times in its first five years. [3] It was purchased in 1884 by Harry Granice, who gave the paper its current name and brought stability. [4] Granice published and edited the newspaper until his death in 1915.
Loyal Martin Griffin Jr. (July 23, 1920 – May 22, 2024), commonly known as Marty Griffin, was an American environmentalist and conservationist in Northern California and author of the book Saving the Marin–Sonoma Coast.
Ramón Bojórquez Salcido (born March 6, 1961) is a Mexican convicted spree killer who is currently on death row in California's San Quentin State Prison. [1] He was convicted for the 1989 murders of six female family members and one male supervisor at his workplace.
After a serious car accident in the early 1990s, Roberts was hospitalized for a time in Sonoma County, California. He later moved to Atlanta, Georgia to undergo rehabilitation. Roberts did not perform or record subsequently, but he held copyrights on nearly 100 songs. He died on October 7, 2017.
Chuck Williams sold Williams-Sonoma to Howard Lester and Jay McMahan in 1978 for $800,000 ($100,000 in cash and the assumption of $700,000 of debt.) He served as chairman of the company until 1986, and he remained extensively involved with the company, overseeing merchandise selection, conducting public appearances, and writing cookbooks, for ...