Wine Country Chocolates is a retail space and chocolate tasting room where one can educate one’s palate. Ryan Lely/Sonoma Valley Sun If your childhood dreams ever found you inside a chocolate shop where you could taste the different concoctions until you found just the right... Continue
Twelve helmeted heads turn in unison as Jamie Rohrbacher flashed by on a zip line through the redwoods. Submitted Photo Twelve helmeted heads turned in unison as Jamie Rohrbacher flashed by on a zip line through the redwoods. Yazbeth Navarrete was next. They were part... Continue
Time alarm clock went off: 5:55 (very good), Time got out of bed: 6:30 (don’t ask how this happened), Minutes spent eating breakfast: 5, Minutes spent running around finding binders, pens, pencils, calculators, a notebook that I really didn’t need but wanted to find: 4.... Continue
Photo Submitted Like many of you, in the days and weeks ahead I’ll be taking a little break from my normal routine to celebrate the season and to ring in the New Year. Being a winemaker during the holidays is a little like being a... Continue
Yes, Virginia, there is such a thing as a free lunch. Or a free breakfast or dinner, even, if you’re a member of The Big 3’s Good Neighbor Program at the Fairmont Sonoma Mission Inn. It doesn’t cost anything to join; you just have to... Continue
ECO topics include water, green building, sustainable economy, alternative energy, organic agriculture, and wilderness conservation at the Sonoma Environmental Film Festival. Submitted Photo Using the powerful medium of film and interactive discussions, the first Sonoma Environmental Film Festival will present the world’s best environmental-themed films... Continue
How about a green Christmas or Chanukah? Like you, I have had a hard time defining “green” in the new sense. Green used to refer to money or even a color. Now it vaguely refers to a way of life, generally meaning “living sustainably,” which,... Continue
The holidays are usually a wonderful time of year, but they can be deadly for our canine and feline friends. The excitement and hustle and bustle of these times can cause unrest and even abnormal behavior. Those of us who decorate our homes need to... Continue
The Sonoma Valley Unified School District Board of Trustees on Tuesday acknowledged Ana Selena De La Cruz and Frederick Anguiano as the Altimira Middle School Students of the Year. Statements read both in English and in Spanish described the students’ achievements and the particular obstacles... Continue
At the meeting Tuesday of the Sonoma Valley Unified School District Board of Trustees, new officers were elected: Board President Camerino Hawing, Vice President Sandra Lowe, and Clerk Dan Gustafson. Superintendent Barbara Young thanked Nicole Abaté Ducarroz for her service as president, saying, “You were... Continue