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Published daily in Bend, Oregon, by Western Communications, Inc. Copyright 2007.
By Claire Noland / The Bulletin
June 28, 2009
Robert Young, a pioneering Sonoma County, Calif., farmer who changed his crop from prunes to grapes and helped produce some of the first vineyard-designated wines in California, has died. He was 90.
Young died June 19 at Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital from complications of old age, his daughter....