photo BY PAUL BUNTING It takes a village to create a new playground. In the case of the one that made its debut last week at the Sonoma Charter School, it took more than 150 volunteers to help dismantle the old equipment, prepare the site... Continue
Water conservation measures on target Krishna Kumar, general manager of the Valley of the Moon Water District, reports water usage conservation this month surpassed the state-mandated target of fifteen percent, registering an 18.4 percent savings in the Valley overall. Issued July 1 and enforceable through... Continue
Up the ante! They said that they would do it, and indeed they did! Raise a million dollars, that is. The Sonoma Valley Vintners & Growers Alliance set a high standard this year, and with hard work by Charlie Tsegeletos, president of the Alliance, by... Continue
Editor - Your recent editorial correctly noted that the emergency room is the hospital feature most valued by voters. That was confirmed by surveys conducted by the Sonoma Valley Health Care Coalition. However, we worry that you imply an even smaller hospital with an ER... Continue
Ryan lely/Sonoma Valley Sun Jeannie Fitzsimons in her Showcase gallery in Glen Ellen. The hamlet of Glen Ellen is a bit more colorful these days with the opening of Showcase Gallery. Opened in July in a one-story wooden building next to the historic Chauvet Hotel... Continue
Staff Report Three House MultiMedia has officially launched FilmArt3, a new cinema division helmed by in-house producer-writer-director Daedalus Howell, editor of F•L magazine. Howell’s films have appeared on Showtime, MTV2, the Independent Film Channel and French network Canal+. Howell has assembled a team composed of... Continue
Shunning conventional wisdom, Councilman Ken Brown straddled the third rail of American politics recently. In view of both his constituency and the rest of us – the silent ones, those who hail from the unincorporated badlands and are denied a vote in council elections –... Continue
As I discussed last week, we each come from our own planet. However, at the core, beneath all our learned thoughts and behaviors, we are all the same species. There are many words for this experience at the heart of being human: self, soul, spirit,... Continue
The Sonoma Shambhala Center is offering a seven-week video class on the teachings of Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, entitled "The Tibetan Buddhist Path." Chogyam Trungpa, a renowned Tibetan meditation master who came to the U.S. in 1970, taught extensively on Buddhism and established the Shambhala meditation... Continue
From funnel cakes to face paints to fast-paced wine races, this year's Vintage Festival will be held on September 29 through 30.When I joined the Valley of the Moon Vintage Festival board of directors a year ago, I had no idea of the event’s storied... Continue