Sonoma Valley Hospital notifies patients affected by ransomware attack

Sonoma Valley Hospital has begun notifying the more than 65,000 patients whose medical information may have been stolen in an October 11 ransomware attack. The massive data breach, believed to be the work of Russian hackers, was one in a series of cyberattacks on hospitals across... Continue

It’s time to make America governable again

The Republican Party has not accepted the results of the 2020 election and the traditional “peaceful transfer of power” may never happen. Not good, folks. The hilarious legal escapades of the Trump team seem unlikely to reverse the results. A Beltway veteran like James Baker... Continue

Family Traditions: Holiday Cookies

Home chefs share their seasonal favorites with The Sun’s Leslie Nicholson Baking cookies for the holidays encompasses so much more than just baking cookies. Thumbing through a recipe box can be emotional, like it was for me when I was searching for recipes from my... Continue

Where will Sonoma Valley’s homeless sleep tonight?

Where do the Sonoma Valley homeless sleep at night? At this moment, in the cold of winter, our community does not offer any answer. Sonoma Overnight Support (S.O.S.), has been grappling with and offering patchwork solutions to this difficult issue since its founding in the... Continue

Sonoma’s new affordable housing project, due in May of 2021, now accepting applications

The affordable housing Altamira Apartments, first approved in 2016 and due to come on line in May of 2021, is beginning to accept applications for a 48-unit affordable development at 1269 Broadway in Sonoma. The development for very low- to moderate-income families is located on the... Continue

Community outreach in times of crisis

I am not going to sugar coat it -- this year has been incredibly rough on all of us. At its core, the theme has been isolation – we cannot gather together as we have in years past, and at no time is that more... Continue

Contact with a Covid-positive person? There’s a text for that

Californians can now voluntarily opt-in to receive a text notification telling them if they have been exposed to someone who has tested positive for COVID-19 at CA Notify. The digital tool does not collect device location to detect exposure and does not share a user’s... Continue

Living in a doctrinal world

Our cultural narratives, and every culture has them, contain doctrines of belief. These doctrines vary, just as the original languages of separated cultures vary, including vocabulary, word meanings, idioms, and implications. As each of us is born into a culture, so too are we indoctrinated,... Continue

Rolling with it

This year’s been a roller coaster ride. We were waiting nervously at the top of it, then whooshing down the wheel, gasping for breath, we landed. Sort of. Cancelled travel, pandemic panic, unpacking evacuation bags, wondering if the fire season is really over, or if... Continue

Meet Jack Ding, Sonoma’s newest City Councilmember

Nobody would have predicted that a little boy named Junhui, by his mother, born near Shanghai, China in 1959, would one day become a member of the Sonoma City Council, but that’s exactly what’s happened. Junhui, which in Chinese means “bright fast horse,” now goes... Continue