With high school graduation looming, many parents are preparing to send their offspring off to college. Last year, 37 percent of Sonoma Valley High School grads went on to a 4-year college or university and 51 percent to a two-year college. With hard work and... Continue
By Edwin Reyes | Sun intern -- When we were freshmen at Sonoma Valley High School, we wrote a letter to our future selves as Seniors. In those letters, I doubt we wrote about how excited we were to take AP classes. Or look forward... Continue
The annual Sonoma City Party – really a live concert, with yet-as-unnamed band -- is set for Thursday July 28, behind City Hall on Sonoma Plaza. This is one of two events (Fourth of July being the other) that had been produced each year by... Continue
[caption id="attachment_67571" align="aligncenter" width="326"] Ferrari-Carano 2013 Alexander Valley Cabernet Sauvignon[/caption] The 2013 Ferrari-Carano Alexander Valley Cabernet Sauvignon is a darn tasty Cab. Alexander Valley is an AVA ripe (no pun intended) with great Cabs in recent vintages. A nose of cocoa, cedar plank, currant, wild... Continue
When artist Michael Acker moved to Boyes Hot Springs from San Francisco in 1996, he took to walking the streets. “I would walk up and down Highway 12. The old buildings in the Springs inspired me. I could see traces of history,” Acker said in... Continue
Voting by mail this year? You can skip the stamp, and any any post office drama, by bring ballots to the Sonoma Veterans Building (126 First St. West) on one of these dates: Saturday, May 28, between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. or Saturday, June 4, between... Continue
We have all heard discussions about why some Democrats and Republicans vote against what seems to be in their best interest based upon their demographics. To this point I ask for those voting for First District supervisor and live in Sonoma Valley to consider not... Continue
The neighbors who fought an illegal housing project at Highway 12 and Moon Mountain Drive – two decaying, half-built structures that were ultimately torn down last October – are ramping up to fight the latest plan for the two-acre parcel. Proposed for the site by... Continue
[caption id="attachment_67528" align="aligncenter" width="420"] Adastra farm and vineyard owner Chris Thorpe, Lead Wine Educator Dana Hunter, and Adastra Wines owner Edwin Richards (L-R) in their new downtown Sonoma tasting room (Photo: Adastra Wines)[/caption] A second new tasting room has opened in downtown Sonoma this month:... Continue
I’m asking you to vote for my friend Mariko Yamada. I have known Mariko for almost 20 years and know her to be an honest and hard-working public servant as well as a person with the utmost integrity. I’ve been involved in politics for 50... Continue