If you plan on raising a toast or two this Memorial Day weekend, MEP’s the word. That stands for “Maximum Enforcement Period,” and it’s what the California Highway Patrol calls its seasonal effort to keep the drinking-impaired off the road. MEP, which puts all available... Continue
If you think Sonoma’s public spaces are experiencing more than their share of defacement and damage, it’s not your imagination. “This July I’m going on 35 years with the city, and I have never seen graffiti and vandalism as bad as I have in the... Continue
It was 1974 in Sonoma, but for only one night. If you were there the first time around, then you re-lived it. If you only heard about it, and were there Thursday night, then you can say you lived it. Kool & The Gang stormed... Continue
“It’ll hit us to the tune of $250,000 per year,” said hospital CFO Jim McSweeney, “but that’s out of $440 million. So it’s not the end of the world.” But it’s not insignificant, either. Cutbacks will be inevitable. “We’re trying to aim more heavily at... Continue
Earthquakes and other calamities are bad enough without the ensuing chaos – and while Sonoma may not be able to prevent the former, it’s doing its best to prevent the latter. “Usually, I meet you all when your hair’s on fire,” said American Red Cross... Continue
Susan and Niels Chew’s house at 300 East Spain Street was one of the features of League for Historic Preservation’s Cottage and Garden Tour last weekend. In the foreground is a David Austin rose called, Eden. KAREN PREUSSFirefighters find missing woman A Sonoma woman is... Continue
Robert Mondavi, “the founder of the modern U.S. fine wine industry and a global symbol of American wine and food,” passed away peacefully at his home in Yountville on the morning of May 16. Mondavi was born in 1913 Virginia, Minn., to Italian immigrants and... Continue
Conductor, Jim Griewe. WINDSOR GREEN “Conductor, Jim Griewe, after 35 years as founding director of the Sonoma Valley Chorale, directs his final concert with the same passion that he brought to the first one,” said Chorale member Chris Smircich after the concert last Sunday, celebrating... Continue
Clemente Inn owner Marty Edwards holds the key to the building’s fate. Ryan lely/Sonoma Valley Sun It is the essence of a conundrum. Built in 1912, the Clemente Inn was, through the 1920s, part of the fashionable hubbub of the “Boyes Hot Springs” resort culture.... Continue
We’ve been writing about the Sonoma Valley Hospital, that is, about keeping the hospital, as long as our paper has been here. Most of our editorials on that topic have been titled, appropriately, “Whither the Hospital.” Perhaps we need to sharpen our focus. Building something... Continue