Has the smell of old soot wafted through your home every time the wind blew this summer? Even with the flue on your fireplace closed, the odor of creosote and tiny ash particles get spread out onto your furniture and carpeting all summer and fall,... Continue
Time alarm clock went off – 5:55 a.m. (better); Number of times pressed snooze – 7 (easily done); Actual time out of bed – 6:15 a.m. (phenomenal); Minutes getting to school – 11; Minutes spent stressing about being late to school – 0 (instead, they... Continue
Submitted Material: Join Sonoma Charter School’s 13th annual benefit auction on Saturday, Nov. 3. from 5-11 p.m. at The Lodge at Sonoma on 1325 Broadway.. “Le Cirque de Sonoma” will offer a magical evening of dining, dancing, entertainment, auctions, laughter and acrobats. Special entertainers will... Continue
The Sonoma City Council at its meeting Wednesday night approved a compensation package that will provide council members with a salary for the first time in city history. In a 4-1 vote, the council directed city staff to prepare an ordinance that will give members... Continue
Sonoma Valley Unified School District Superintendent Barbara Young says the campaign for the passage of Measure E, the district’s proposed parcel tax on the Nov. 6 ballot, “is going really well.” In an interview Monday, Young said the response received by volunteers at phone banks... Continue
Sonoma City Council members will discuss at their meeting on Wednesday a compensation package that would elevate them from making no salary, as is now the case, to making $360 a month or more. The meeting will begin at 6 p.m. at the Veterans Memorial... Continue
The Valley of the Moon Firefighters Association has received a $10,000 grant to purchase voice amplifiers—a communications device attached to their oxygen masks that allows firefighters to talk back and forth during a fire. The grant comes from Unique Insurance Services (Agent Linda Huddleston) and... Continue
They keep falling on my head.Here are some utterly unsettling rainy day activities to wile away this wet Sonoma weather: Look up area road closures online! For example, on its “Current Road Closures and Detours” page, Sonoma County Public Works warns of traffic delays on... Continue
Jayce Ray’s 47-yard run on the first play of the fourth quarter proved to be the decisive play in the Sonoma Dragons thrilling 15-12 homecoming victory over the visiting Casa Grande Gauchos Friday night at Arnold Field. Ray’s run, on a direct snap from center,... Continue
Deadlocked at 3-3, the Sonoma City Planning Commission on Thursday evening did not approve the application by Donna Barton to hold meetings of the Church of Scientology at the office building she is purchasing at 752 Broadway. This item had been continued from the commission’s... Continue