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
Editorials
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
Well, the Super Tuesday primary election results reinforced why it is that we keep the focus local here at the Sun. We wondered in last week’s editorial if John Edwards might poll well and become a spoiler at the Democratic nominating convention. By keeping either... Continue
Not that citizens of other countries don’t vote, too, but our nation, still young compared to most, is unique in always having had a government voted in by its citizens. And we get a chance every four years to vote it out, too. As our... Continue
The recent news about a family’s cat being shot here in Sonoma, apparently on several occasions, shocks us with the realization that people can be cruel. That’s a lesson we’ve all learned before but keep trying to forget. Yes, what would be called inhumanity is,... Continue
On the Presidential primary ballot next month (or right now, for those voting absentee) are seven statewide measures, Propositions 91 through 97. When we ponder how to vote on ballot measures, we try to seek the primary issues. That can be tough, though, because generally... Continue
That’s our reply to those who espouse the more common philosophy, “Winning is everything.” We have the highest regard for Coach Casey Rogina. Here he is, new varsity basketball coach at his alma mater, after just one year of head coaching experience. We have to... Continue
We know the prediction thing is not unique, and we accept the fact that we’re not particularly good at it (our 2007 success rate was 60 percent). But it is fun! Presidential election Tough to predict, and a little outside our normal subject matter, so... Continue