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Sonoma’s new public-access pool opens October 16

A community swimming pool in Sonoma, a project first launched in 2014, will be realized October 16 with the opening on an aquatics center at Sonoma Valley High School. Nonprofit operator Sonoma Splash will host a free Community Day Celebration from 11am to 4pm. The... Continue

“Recumbent” at di Rosa

  di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art has a new sculpture on its grounds, Oliver Lee Jackson's Untitled (Recumbent Figure), 2022. His recent exhibition at di Rosa, Oliver Lee Jackson: Any Eyes, which closed earlier this year, introduced a new series of steel sculptures based... Continue

Writers speak to the art of Raymond Saunders

Poet and author Caroline M. Mar has assembled a stellar line-up of Bay Area writers for a Sonoma Valley Museum of Art event on Oct. 16 -- Freedoms Found: Writers Speak to the Art of Raymond Saunders Each has composed an original work inspired by... Continue

Sonoma Valley Catalyst Fund recognizes 2022 Star Volunteers 

The Sonoma Valley Catalyst Fund hosted the annual Sonoma Valley Star Volunteer Awards, as 37 nonprofit organizations honored 39 of Sonoma Valley’s most active and valuable community volunteers. Each Star Volunteer was presented with a special trophy and certificates of recognition from Supervisor Susan Gorin... Continue

‘The tradition continues’ in Glen Ellen

  [caption id="attachment_123542" align="aligncenter" width="420"] Students and alumni from Dunbar School proudly rep The Dolphins.[/caption] What Glen Ellen’s annual parade lacks in length -- the whole town is about two blocks long -- it makes up in community spirit.   [caption id="attachment_123537" align="aligncenter" width="420"] Sonoma... Continue

The ‘Specific Plan’ has very few specifics

Sonoma Developmental Center EIR: No Mitigation Necessary? News Analysis by David Bolling | For The Sonoma Sun  There is a pall hanging over the Sonoma Developmental Center, where record levels of triple-digit heat have singed the lawns and playing fields, pushed oaks and redwoods past... Continue

Choosing the best candidates for taxpayers

It’s no secret that most Californians think that taxes are too high. A PPIC poll released on April 15 of this year found that “record-high shares of Californians think that they pay more in taxes than they should and that the state and local tax... Continue

“Cat” burglars

By Steve Meloan -- The sound came in the dead of night – a brief, screeching metal-on-metal. It was all so alien to my half-asleep brain, I chalked it up to a catfight and soon drifted off again. In the morning, my wife went out... Continue