If you're planning to get away this holiday weekend, you might want to consider heading north.The Oakland/San Francisco Bay Bridge will be completely closed to traffic Labor Day weekend, beginning tonight at 8p.m. Despite having spent nearly a million-dollars in the last six months to... Continue
A former Oakland police officer unexpectedly plead guilty to felony assault on a girlfriend in Sonoma last year. In exchange for his sudden plea, the Sonoma County District Attorney's office dropped two additional felony counts and a misdemeanor charge of domestic violence against Christopher Del... Continue
The City of Sonoma will consider a resoultion that could designate the city as a refuge for immigrants. Jesus Guzman (pictured) is working with a group that includes Ken Brown to craft the resolution. Ryan lely/Sonoma Valley Sun The future of many people living in... Continue
The founding meeting of the Northern California Health Care Authority, a novel region-wide collaboration among the Sonoma Valley Health Care District, the North County Hospital District (Healdsburg), the Palm Drive Hospital District (Sebastopol) and the Mendocino Coast Health Care District (Fort Bragg) will be held... Continue
Arate increase of 12.3 percent for the collection of our recyclables, refuse, and yard waste by the Sonoma Garbage Collectors (SGC) will go into effect October 1, as approved by the Sonoma City Council at its August 22 meeting. This is on top of a... Continue
The proponents of a large new downtown development made little progress with the City's Planning Commission at its special meeting on Thursday evening. It wasn't for lack of fortitude, however, as the meeting ran a full four hours, on just the one topic. The primary... Continue
Joanne Sanders was recently appointed to the board of directors of the Golden Gate Bridge Highway and Transportation District. photo BY BEAU GLOVER Sonoma City Mayor Pro Tem Joanne Sanders made her debut on the greater Bay Area stage last week by taking oath as... Continue
Dixon wins Indy at Infineon Scott Dixon again proved he is the uncrowned road course champion of the Indy Racing League Sunday at Infineon Raceway in the Motorola Indy 300 and also moved himself four points into the series championship lead over Dario Franchitti. An... Continue
The “hospital question” has been out of the news for a while, much to the relief, we expect, of the elected hospital directors. Partly it’s because the Sonoma Valley Health Care Coalition did not recommend a single site – in fact, there was no site... Continue
FineLife magazine ‘beautifully designed and well-written’ Editor: What a delightful surprise to open your newspaper last Thursday to find the beautifully designed and well-written magazine, FL (Fine Life). So often these glossy inserts can be very “chic,” and at the same time rather shallow. However,... Continue