Food drive nets 10k pounds

Infineon Raceway distributed nearly 10,000 pounds of non-perishable food items to Friends in Sonoma Helping (FISH), St. Vincent de Paul Sonoma and the Redwood Empire Food Bank in Santa Rosa on Monday following the raceway's 11th annual Thanksgiving Food Drive. In total, the raceway distributed... Continue

Birthday bash for HopMonk Tavern

HopMonk Tavern will celebrate its one-year anniversary with live music and free finger food on Wednesday, Nov. 23. "We are amazed to be already hitting our one year mark in Sonoma,” said owner Dean Biersch. He is the co-founder of the Gordon Biersch Brewery Restaurant... Continue

Volunteers to 'green' Sonoma Trail

A device its inventor says has the ability to “green the world” will be installed Tuesday along the Sonoma Overlook Trail by a team of volunteers. The Groasis Waterboxx, named the 2010 Invention of the Year by “Popular Science,” will used by the Sonoma Ecology... Continue

Surprise disc of the year?

Sun Music Writer Mike Hyland discovers a gem. Continue

Doctor's appointment

In “Doctor Zhivago,” playing Wednesday, Nov. 23, at the Sebastiani Theatre, wide-screen master David Lean does for snow and Julie Christie what he did for sand and Peter O’Toole in “Lawrence of Arabia.” Running nearly 200 minutes, the gorgeous 1965 film is nearly as long... Continue

Hairball to die for

Sex, death and money are taboo subjects but to tell the truth, as someone over 50, death’s been on my mind. It’s hard to write about dying but we all do it. The upside is that we realize life is short and it wakes us... Continue

From the Starship Latke Gravis

I know it’s inexplicable and defies understanding, but somehow I received an email from the distant future yesterday! From what I’m told, it’s traveled 36 light years (roughly 212 trillion miles) to reach my desktop, from the constellation Vega. As I said, it’s inexplicable. It’s... Continue

Anything for animals

[caption id="attachment_27727" align="alignnone" width="420" caption="Pets Lifeline’s calendar girls strike a pose."][/caption] Valley women love their pets and, it seems, will do practically anything to help animals in need. With that in mind, a group of gutsy Valley women came together to pull off a bit... Continue

The Presentation School approach

[caption id="attachment_27723" align="alignnone" width="420" caption="Eighth graders from the Presentation School visited the migrant worker camp run by La Luz. The students interviewed the workers in Spanish to learn first hand about what the workers experience."][/caption] By Beth Fox | Special to The Sun Why do... Continue

Give thanks for good food

If Thanksgiving is a word that conjures up cozy images of extended families gathered around the dining table, aromas of a buttery turkey and spiced pies wafting from the kitchen, little cousins giggling with one another and happy hours spent on grandma’s stuffing recipe then... Continue