Dear Dr. Forsythe: Why is it that every year when my dog comes back from the vet after getting his shots, he is sick for a couple of days. He doesn’t eat, he just lies around, and I think he must feel really crummy. Don’t... Continue
Last night, city manager Linda Kelly outlined to a rapt city council the city’s current level of disaster preparedness. In her report, she considered plans, staff training, emergency operations center, equipment and community awareness efforts. Among her recommendations was that a disaster council be assembled... Continue
Given 30 days to comply with an obscure ordinance and give up her six pet hens, long-time resident, Doreen Proctor, appealed to neighbors, the press, and finally, the county. “How does an ordinary citizen get a public ordinance changed to permit keeping chickens as pets?”... Continue
Coming off an eight-day layoff for Spring Break, the Sonoma high school boys baseball team returned to action on Saturday against the Eureka Loggers for a doubleheader at Arnold Field. The first game was an easy 6-1 victory for the home team. Pitcher Devin McCauley... Continue
Alex Palmer was accused of murdering Jes Markson, and fifteen students from Sonoma Valley High School tried the case four times last week, twice on Friday and twice again on Saturday, as part of the 2008 California State Mock Trial Championship. Put on by the... Continue
Cline Cellars will be opening their hearts to all who come to a Saturday evening event to benefit the Sonoma Developmental Center. “Heroes with Heart” will be held on behalf of the more than six hundred residents of the Center, and in an effort to... Continue
Back in January, at the Sonoma Chamber of Commerce’s State of the State breakfast, state assembly member Jared Huffman mentioned a piece of legislation he was proposing, called AB 541: “Protection for Farmers Against Cross Contamination from Genetically Engineered Material.” Nobody seemed much interested. On... Continue
photo by Ryan LelyThere were eras where the fashion industry dictated to the public what they had to wear, and chic women knew that belts, handbags and shoes had to match. Contemporary styles are much more democratic. The Number One rule is: there are no... Continue
The El Dorado Hotel at the corner of First Street West and Spain streets. Ryan lely/Sonoma Valley Sun At about 8 a.m. Tuesday, a fire erupted in the flue of a pizza oven on the ground floor of the El Dorado Hotel. Employees were warming... Continue
Tim Boeve Ryan lely/Sonoma Valley SunTim Boeve, executive director of Sonoma’s WillMar Center for Bereaved Children, is stepping down, bowing, he said, to a “difference with the majority of the board over leadership style.” WillMar was founded in 2000 by Nina Sagall Gorbach to address... Continue