Dreams do come true The boys water polo team at Sonoma Valley High School has arrived. For the first time in five years, the team has won a league game. Matched up Wednesday afternoon against perennial powerhouse and defending league champion Cardinal Newman, the Dragon... Continue
Editorials
Readers will recognize this topic as one the Editorial Board addressed recently. We received the letter below from Gary De Smet, one of the five trustees elected to lead the Sonoma Valley Unified School District. In light of the coming public meeting and the importance... Continue
“If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.” Who can argue with the logic of that? Senate candidate Abraham Lincoln spoke those words in 1858 in his... Continue
Labor day is among our favorite holidays, though we admit it’s tough to choose. The summer vacations are already a memory, so a day off is nice. The days are getting shorter but still warm into the evenings. The frenzy of July 4 seems to... Continue
Only half of Sonoma Valley’s students can read, write and reason at their own grade level. Half. By federal mandate, we have had consistent testing for almost a decade, and the results are available for review through the state’s Web site, cde.ca.gov. The Obama administration... Continue
The buzz about “ObamaCare” continues, as the public grumbles and the administration mumbles. The President, addressing the AFL-CIO in 2003, has made clear his goal: “I [am] a proponent of a single payer universal health care program ... and that’s what I’d like to see.... Continue
We recently accompanied some of our delivery drivers on their weekly routes, and we were surprised how hard it was to locate some residences during the evening or early morning hours when the deliveries take place. Many newer houses have street numbers that are backlit... Continue
SHO ’nuff Is this what we need? A “social host ordinance”? A number of cities are adopting such laws, including Santa Rosa, Petaluma and Rohnert Park in Sonoma County. Some laws even call for criminal penalties – jail time – but all assign liability to... Continue
Party City! Wow! That was quite a party. The Farmers Market on Tuesday evenings in the summer is always a pleasant time. Adding a “City Party” makes the chosen Tuesday truly a remarkable experience. People from all over the Valley came and enjoyed themselves –... Continue
Big and small We’ve driven to Sacramento recently, and to Santa Rosa, of course, very often, and we have seen houses and people everywhere. Yes, there are some open tracts of land not yet filled with cookie-cutter homes or big-box stores, as well as some... Continue