The defeat this week of Measure F troubles us on several levels. That was the $45 million bond measure to upgrade key systems at the hospital, to acquire the nearby Carinalli property and to plan for constructing new facilities and refurbishing existing ones. But hey,... Continue

Constituting perhaps a third of Sonoma Valley residents, our neighbors who are predominantly Spanish speakers are very much a significant part of our community. We at Three House MultiMedia, the parent company of the Sonoma Valley Sun and El Sol de Sonoma, try to view... Continue

Fundamentally, we freely favor funding facilities for our future failing physical faculties. And quite possibly, that’s the most you’ve heard about Measure F, the $45 million bond measure on our April 8 ballots. We also favor, fundamentally, transparency in actions taken by public agencies. That’s... Continue

The school board trustees did the right thing over the weekend, putting Micaela Philpot back in as the principal at Sonoma Valley High School. It was not quite that easy, of course, since the trustees do not have hire/fire power over school district employees, save... Continue

Sonoma Valley is a vibrant, exciting place to live. Yet it has divisions. In fairness, so do most towns, but one division Sonoma has no longer is within its active soccer community. Some 1200 of our youth play soccer; it’s a big deal for Sonoma... Continue

We don’t presume to know what transpired to cause Sonoma Valley Unified School District Superintendent Barbara Young to lose confidence in Sonoma Valley High School Principal Micaela Philpot. Young had appointed Philpot a year and a half ago to the interim position at the high... Continue

Much has been written about the 2008 Lady Dragons basketball team, and much more likely will, as we follow the star player from that team into her college career next year. But if readers will bear a few more words on the subject, we can’t... Continue

In case you hadn’t heard it before, this is the slogan coined by Sonoma Mayor Joanne Sanders to capture her feeling that Sonoma Valley is a single, cohesive community. Well, at least a contiguous community – we’ll see with the hospital’s Measure F just how... Continue

In the dark clouds of the financial storm closing in on the school district is a silver lining. Sonoma Valley has been focused lately on the presence of gangs, something we’d been reluctant to admit, living as we do amid relative quiet compared to Santa... Continue