Farewell to Maxwell Park as we’ve known it for decades. On Feb 26, 2019 the supervisors will vote on the master plan which will forever transform the park. All the playing field lawns will be ripped up for plastic turf. Huge stadium lights will shine... Continue
A group of marauding juveniles was caught after midnight after vandalizing cars and smashing windshields along Blue Wing Drive in Sonoma. Neighbors reported several young men running through the neighborhood with bats, damaging at least six cars, at about 1 a.m. on February 24. Police were told... Continue
First District Supervisor Susan Gorin has named the seven members of the newly-formed Springs Municipal Advisory Council (MAC), a panel that will make recommendations to the County on matters of local interest and concern. Serving on the council will be: Maite Iturri, representing schools and... Continue
Parenting in the Age of Legalized Marijuana. Free forum. Feb 28, 6-8 pm, at SVHS. Chat With the Principal, for SVHS parents. March 4, 8:30-9:30 am, at SVHS College and Career Center. Dance to benefit SVHS Seniors (scholarships). March 9, 7-10 pm, Sonoma Valley Woman’s... Continue
By Jonah Raskin At Bee-Well Farms on Highway 12, between Trinity and Nun’s Canyon, Austin and Melinda (Missy) Lely are taking stock of the year that’s ending and looking ahead to the year that’s about to begin. Winter is the only real season that allows... Continue
In response to the arrest of an Altimira Middle School student for making gun-related threats, School District Superintendent Socorro Shiels today released this statement: Many of you have heard about a serious threat made on one of our campuses. The good news is that the... Continue
Sonoma County Sheriff’s Detectives have solved the 2017 robbery of Sonoma’s Umpqua Bank after a DNA hit on a man arrested on drug charges this month in Florida. William Paul Brust, 32, of Pacifica, is now in the San Francisco jail facing drug and weapons... Continue
A student of Altimira Middle School was arrested after allegedly making gun-related threats. No gun was found and there were no injuries following the February 21 incident. "The student was reported to have made threats involving a gun to harm other students," according to the Sheriff’s... Continue
-- By Andy Weinberger, from the Readers' Books newsletter We held a wedding last Sunday for Rosie, one of our star employees, and Ryan, her beau. We closed the store that day, decorated it with paper hearts and flowers, shifted furniture all around and made it... Continue
For many years, the Sonoma City Council has talked about addressing the need for more affordable housing, while preserving city character. Somehow nothing seemed to get done, perhaps because a council majority was content with the status quo. Now the city has a council majority... Continue