City of Sonoma has cut municipal greenhouse gas emissions by 50%

A study of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from day-to-day operations of the City of Sonoma found that municipal emissions have been cut in half since 2000. A team of climate action volunteers reviewed the historical data. The results of the study, called a GHG inventory,... Continue

Opinion: Sonoma County’s first step to re-design the police

The Sonoma County Board of Supervisors made the courageous, unanimous (5-0) decision recently to place the Evelyn Cheatham Effective IOLERO Ordinance on the November ballot. This bold action was spurred by public demand for civic accountability of law enforcement, as expressed by the many street... Continue

Sonoma artists ‘On The Edge’ at San Francisco’s de Young Museum

On the Edge is an apt description of life right now, artist or not. By Jackie Lee | Sun Fine Arts Sonoma artists, what are the odds you could exhibit your art in a major museum? Answer: downright daunting. But that’s the challenge artists took... Continue

Saturday Harvest Market at Sonoma’s Garden Park

It’s the height of the growing season, and Sonoma Garden Park’s seasonal Harvest Market is at its most bountiful, with a great selection of ripe delicious fruits and vegetables -- all grown on site -- for sale every Saturday from 9 a.m. to noon in... Continue

Under the Sun: Maricarmen Reyes Larios, community advocate

Anna Pier: You were recently recognized by the Redwood Community Health Coalition for your work at the Sonoma Valley Community Health Center. What is your position there? Maricarmen Reyes: I am an Outreach and Event Coordinator, in addition to being an enrollment counselor. Covered California... Continue

The General Problem

How do we reconcile the grand history – and troubled legacy – of Mariano Vallejo? By Leslie Nicholson | Sonoma Valley Sun The rough and raw lands of northern California in which General Mariano Vallejo found himself in 1835, by orders of the Mexican Government,... Continue

Textbook distribution and supply giveaway at Sonoma Valley High School

At Sonoma Valley High School's recent Distribution Day, every student received a box of free supplies to aid online learning, a district-wide program created in partnership with The Sonoma Valley Education Foundation, Sonoma Valley Community Health Center, and La Luz. The boxes included everything from... Continue

Sonoma Kids Ask the Experts: COVID-19

Each week on her KSVY radio show, Saturdays at noon, Cat Smith puts questions to a local authority that were submitted by curious Sonoma Valley kids. Here, Dr. Jerome Smith, a pediatrician in Sonoma Valley for 14 years, answers. [caption id="attachment_106287" align="aligncenter" width="421"] Dr. Jerome... Continue

New directional signs for Sonoma parking

Finding a space is still up to you, but finding public parking areas in the City of Sonoma just got a little easier. City Public Works staff installed new highly visible parking directional signs to replaced faded signs in the downtown area this week in... Continue

Tiny big cat

This is what a mountain lion about three weeks old looks like in the wild -- in this case, a burned tree trunk near a Glen Ellen creekbed. The kitten was found by tracking the mama lion, P-16, a female under study by Audubon Canyon... Continue