Sonoma County’s Health Officer has further eased restrictions on businesses, now allowing in-person faith-based services, indoor retail shopping and dining, hair salons/barbershops, and outdoor recreation business activities and equipment rental. All businesses now being opened will require mitigation measures including: reduced number of customers to... Continue
Statement to Sonoma County community from Sheriff Mark Essick: "Our county and our nation is in upheaval. George Floyd should not have died. The actions by those Minneapolis police officers are sickening and inexcusable. Their actions do not reflect the values, culture, policies, or training... Continue
A hit and run took the life Friday night of bicyclist on Highway 12 near Glen Ellen, and the pickup that fled the scene remains at large. California Highway Patrol officials said the truck, possibly a Dodge Ram, smashed into the back of a bicyclist... Continue
A big shout-out to the youth in Sonoma that rallied and demonstrated on the Plaza on 6/30 for Black Lives Matter, and in protest against the brutal murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Watching and listening to the impassioned pleas and demands of these... Continue
Juan Mendoza-Meza, age 30, of Santa Rosa, was arrested for assault with a deadly weapon -- his Italian sports car -- and felony animal cruelty for purposefully running over a dog and then driving away. The ugly incident unfolded June 1, on Las Lomas Road near... Continue
Shop projects were never this exciting when I was in school. Students at Sandpoint High School in Bonner County, Idaho dedicated a year of class time to constructing a barbeque grill in the shape of a Smith and Wesson pistol, according to the Daily Bee Yahoo's Eric... Continue
[caption id="attachment_87054" align="aligncenter" width="420"] Kevin McNeely, Sonoma International Film Festival[/caption] The Sonoma International Film Festival has awarded a total of $8,500 to graduating seniors of Sonoma Valley High School, participants in the school's Media Arts program. Receiving the scholarship awards for 2020 are: Connor Barry; Eden... Continue
My understanding is that the City of Sonoma is planning to place a 4% Cannabis Tax initiative on the November ballot, right next to the Sonoma Citizens for Local Access cannabis initiative. Interesting that they chose the General Fund path, since the 2/3 supermajority required... Continue
By Meg Jernigan That’s a statement I never thought I’d be qualified to write. But as it turns out, I am one of those 2020 high school students who is learning to cope because of some crazy twisted convergence of events. I am a Junior... Continue
As we face unprecedented hard times, Sonoma’s city council election in November looms large. We understand that one, perhaps two sitting council members will not be putting their hats in the ring.But we have heard from no one who plans to run for the seats. Given... Continue