I love bunch grasses. They are easy to care for, natural looking and come in a huge variety of colors and sizes. One of the best things about bunch grasses is, deer avoid them; if deer browse your garden on a regular basis consider bunch... Continue
As detailed in our lead story this week, the City of Sonoma hired a code enforcement officer last May. While there were a variety of reasons prompting that decision, the long and short of it is that a variety of City code requirements were being ignored... Continue
Happy Grenache Day! If you aren't attending the big shindig tonight at Suite D to celebrate the Rhone varietal, you can stop by girl & the fig in Sonoma, where winemakers will be pouring tastes of their Grenache wines (red, white and rose) to diners... Continue
The City of Sonoma hired a code enforcement officer last May. While there were a variety of reasons prompting that decision, the long and short of it is that a variety of City code requirements were being ignored by a variety of scofflaws, and residents and... Continue
The local 91.3 KSVY Morning Show has been reformatted and broadcasts Monday through Friday, 8:AM- 10:AM, provide listeners an opportunity to experience high-quality, multi-faceted and interesting people who make up the current events and life of Sonoma Valley. The five Morning Show hosts are Marcia... Continue
On November 8, 2016 the American voters will elect the next President of the United States. Despite the fact that the three branches of government – Executive, Legislative, and Judicial – are constitutionally linked and monitored through a system of checks and balances, the Presidency... Continue
Sonoma Overnight Support, the City’s defacto homeless shelter and service provider, will on September 19 once again ask the City Council for five parking spaces in which homeless people can sleep in their cars at night. The practice is working at several County locations without... Continue
For an area that takes its historic aesthetic seriously, sites of degradation and blight – somewhere on the scale between Detroit and Chernobyl -- are particularly embarrassing. We asked readers for some of the more egregious examples. Broadway at MacArthur The hands-down winner, proving nothing... Continue
Have you noticed the sign that was hanging from the Sonoma Valley Grange Hall is missing? The iconic building with the colorful mural, located across from Mary’s Pizza, will soon boast a yet undecided new name to reflect the fact the community organization operating the... Continue
Editor: Recently, a member of CALM, the group seeking to retain the city ordinance banning gas-powered leaf blowers, submitted a letter to the editor detailing the multiple health hazards to landscape workers of using leaf blowers, especially the combustion engine versions. This is all scientifically... Continue