Alex Palmer was accused of murdering Jes Markson, and fifteen students from Sonoma Valley High School tried the case four times last week, twice on Friday and twice again on Saturday, as part of the 2008 California State Mock Trial Championship. Put on by the... Continue
Cline Cellars will be opening their hearts to all who come to a Saturday evening event to benefit the Sonoma Developmental Center. “Heroes with Heart” will be held on behalf of the more than six hundred residents of the Center, and in an effort to... Continue
Back in January, at the Sonoma Chamber of Commerce’s State of the State breakfast, state assembly member Jared Huffman mentioned a piece of legislation he was proposing, called AB 541: “Protection for Farmers Against Cross Contamination from Genetically Engineered Material.” Nobody seemed much interested. On... Continue
photo by Ryan LelyThere were eras where the fashion industry dictated to the public what they had to wear, and chic women knew that belts, handbags and shoes had to match. Contemporary styles are much more democratic. The Number One rule is: there are no... Continue
The El Dorado Hotel at the corner of First Street West and Spain streets. Ryan lely/Sonoma Valley Sun At about 8 a.m. Tuesday, a fire erupted in the flue of a pizza oven on the ground floor of the El Dorado Hotel. Employees were warming... Continue
Tim Boeve Ryan lely/Sonoma Valley SunTim Boeve, executive director of Sonoma’s WillMar Center for Bereaved Children, is stepping down, bowing, he said, to a “difference with the majority of the board over leadership style.” WillMar was founded in 2000 by Nina Sagall Gorbach to address... Continue
After a brief introduction, Mayor Joanne Sanders read out and presented to Karen Oswald, of United Against Sexual Assault of Santa Rosa, a proclamation declaring April 2008 to be Sexual Assault Awareness Month. Oswald thanked her and the City of Sonoma, on behalf of her... Continue
In February, in Missouri, a citizen expressed himself with a firearm, killing three city officials and two police officers. Since then Sonoma police and city officials have taken a fresh look at security. Now, as an extra precaution, during city council meetings, an officer of... Continue
Good news for Sonoma’s commuters…sort of The Golden Gate Bridge District’s board of directors, after months of deliberation, has come to a decision on the question of congestion, the bridge toll, its toll on commuters, and the Doyle Drive refurbishment project, announced Mayor Joanne Sanders... Continue
Fundamentally, we freely favor funding facilities for our future failing physical faculties. And quite possibly, that’s the most you’ve heard about Measure F, the $45 million bond measure on our April 8 ballots. We also favor, fundamentally, transparency in actions taken by public agencies. That’s... Continue