I attended my first Sonoma City Council meeting (Monday) night. It was quite interesting. There was a presentation by Vintage House on the agenda. For those who do not know, Vintage House serves as the senior center in the City of Sonoma and provides many services... Continue
Think your kitchen gets dirty after cooking a big dinner? Try 300 dinners a night, five times a week – nearly 16,000 meals a week, that’s what volunteers of the Meals on Wheels program produce in the Trinity Episcopal Church’s kitchen on East Spain Street.... Continue
[caption id="attachment_64681" align="aligncenter" width="445"] Not too shabby - Tokay Hétszölö is seeking a harvest intern (Photo: Sonoma-Tokaj Sister City Committee)[/caption] It's that time of the year! The Sonoma-Tokaj Sister City Committee is putting out the call for a harvest intern for the annual harvest in... Continue
The Sonoma Community Center, which has produced the town’s Fourth of July Parade since 1963, said that because of liability and funding concerns, including the loss of an annual grant from the City, it will not produce the event beyond this year. “Quite simply, the... Continue
Dawson McCahon, Savannah Schell, Sofia Willliams, and Andrea Robledo Cervantes are finalists for the second annual HWY 12 Properties Scholarship program for college-bound Sonoma Valley High School FFA (Future Farmers of America) members. The finalists, who plan to pursue a degree in agriculture at a... Continue
Ample rain and warm temperatures have brought an early spring to our area. The trees are beginning to get green as this year's leaves emerge from hiding and we can already see evidence of wildflowers popping up along our urban sidewalks and meadows. If last... Continue
The Sonoma Valley water supply has never been treated with chloramines, the lead-leaching agent causing widespread health problems in Flint, Michigan, said Public Works Director Dan Takasugi. “Neither the City nor the Sonoma County Water Agency use chloramine to treat City water,” Takasugi said. “Residents... Continue
Though advocating for a robust local economy to meet rising costs, the City of Sonoma continues to prohibit medical marijuana dispensaries, which in other cities are producing very large sales tax revenue. There is no medical marijuana dispensary in the City of Sonoma, but there's... Continue
Recently, after a particularly busy day at my hospital where it seemed as though nearly every patient had a rather dreadful diagnosis, I had a baffling interaction with a client towards the end of the afternoon. A lovely young 20-something was in the exam room... Continue
The project formerly known as “The Cloisters” – 32-room hotel, townhouses, restaurant, spa – has renamed itself the First Street East Project, and it’s probably a good thing. Back in the day, or rather, the millennia, the Latin word ‘Cloisters’ referred to an area within a... Continue