The Sonoma Valley Catalyst Fund has created a new open grant program to aid in the recovery of Sonoma Valley nonprofits that are restructuring their services due to the pandemic crisis. Catalyst is a temporary philanthropic fund that aims to improve our community’s collective response to... Continue
By Jackie Lee | Sonoma Valley Sun Michael Bartlett’s paintings are readily identifiable by their lush colors and luminosity. He has a unique method of applying colors in many glazes to obtain that effect, a time-consuming but rewarding technique which can only be possible through... Continue
School District Nurses Daniela Ziemer, Emily Henke, and Erin Weaver By Leslie Nicholson | Sonoma Valley Sun Performing the duties of a health professional for a school district, and during an unprecedented pandemic, has put a renewed focus on how our own district nurses play... Continue
Where to find the County's free Covid vaccine clinics July 12-18. Continue
End of summer, 1970, west of Minneapolis, Minnesota Just past midnight, an 18 year old woman drives a rust bucket 1963 Bel Air down a dark two lane road. She hears a siren, sees flashing lights in the rear view mirror and pulls over. Two... Continue
Politics has changed in the 21st century. What used to be an intensely personal, relationship-based electoral process has become disembodied, replaced by cyber relationships on social media. Facebook elected Donald Trump, and Facebook and other platforms now play an integral part in local politics as... Continue
A milestone for the nonprofit Friends In Sonoma Helping A nonprofit like FISH is rare due to its total dependence on volunteers for every task within the organization. An all-volunteer organization celebrating 50 years of service is very, very rare. FISH, with its mission to... Continue
California students and school staff will be required to wear masks indoors when campuses reopen next month. According to the state guidelines: Students and staff in the state are required to continue using masks indoors in school settings, whether they are immunized or not. Physical... Continue
We’ve pivoted from shutting our worldwide doors to the opening of stores and social settings. From zoom to podcasts and back to instagram, we squint at another required computer password. Then, pivot again through drought, dreading the fire season, hardly past elections and the tax... Continue
By Jonah Raskin | Sun Contributor With a name like Rebecca Rosenberg you’d expect she’d be Jewish. Think again. “Our family is Jewish, my husband and children are Jewish,” Rebecca told me recently. “I go along.” This summer, Rebecca and Gary’s Jewish daughter, Marissa, who... Continue