Technology can wait. Life won’t.

By Audrey Krafft -- What’s your relationship with technology like? Do you feel the need to have your phone or laptop near at all times, checking it often and using it to pass the time? Or are you relatively unattached, using it only when necessary and... Continue

Just say no to the mega-grow

Sonoma County wants to be a mecca for outdoor cannabis cultivation, boasting that people prefer Sonoma County weed because of soil and climate. Yet they bring in external soil, discard spent soil, and shield plants from our natural climate in hoop houses or greenhouses. The... Continue

Under the Sun: Karina García, aide to Supervisor Gorin

In conversation with The Sun’s Anna Pier You were recently named Supervisor Susan Gorin’s Field Representative. Yes, at the end of January. I had been a Board Aide for her for the past year. I am more than ever feeling the responsibility to help those... Continue

Murder at the Hi Lo Laundry

Amid anti-Chinese sentiment of the 1890s, a stunning crime and a surprising verdict By Peter G. Meyerhof During the 30 years that followed the Gold Rush, several hundred single Chinese men settled in the Sonoma Valley. Sonoma was predominantly an agricultural community. In times of... Continue

Remember going out to eat?

Proprietor Kevin Kress is happy to welcome guests (in this case, with fresh clam chowder and a pint) back to the just-reopened Reel and Brand in El Verano. The historic spot (old timers will remember it as Little Switzerland) has one of the area’s largest... Continue

Where to get tested this week

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Meet Sonoma’s new city councilmember

By Larry Barnett | Sonoma Valley Sun -- Not everyone enjoys the generational legacy of a given name, but Sonoma’s newest City Council member, Kelso Grant Barnett IV does. The fourth generation of his family to be named Kelso Grant Barnett, he indeed was preceded... Continue

Sonoma Hotel returns; cannabis in Glen Ellen; water thoughts; and more

The Sonoma Hotel Project, dormant for over two years, is back on the well-worn drawing board. Kenwood Investments submitted plans 10 years ago (!) for the 1.6-acre site on the 100 block of West Napa Street. It’s been a series of stops and starts since... Continue

The ‘year of housing’ in Sonoma?

We are pleased to see Mayor Logan Harvey’s efforts to direct the attention of the City Council to the continuing crisis of affordable housing in the City of Sonoma. At the same time, it is frustrating that our local government has moved so slowly over... Continue

Baking with the Bejkr

Seth Dolinsky | Sonoma Farm Scene -- Locally grown and produced foods have been an integral component of human society from the beginning. Fast forward to 2021 in the Sonoma Valley and we find some of the finest producers around feeding a hungry and grateful... Continue