Editor: I attended the meeting in 2008, and not one citizen there was in favor of a bike lane on West Spain Street, yet the council approved it anyway. I would have attended the recent meeting to voice my opinion in person, had I been... Continue
Letters To The Editor
On Sunday, January 9, Democrats in Sonoma and Marin will be voting on who will represent them in the California Democratic Party. The 6th Assembly District, comprising a third of Sonoma County and all of Marin County, is among the most innovative and sustainable agricultural... Continue
Editor: My first wish for the new year is that the dog next door, Buster, will find a home where people love him and won’t leave him alone when they go on vacation. At least six different times this year his owners have driven off... Continue
Editor: May we never stop believing in and actively working toward what we value, while celebrating what we have – especially as we deal realistically with serious county, state and federal fiscal problems and their increasing impact on us locally. In Sonoma Valley we’re each... Continue
Editor: The Grassroots effort to Save Banco de Sonoma and Glen Ellen branches is a group of concerned citizens, political officials, land owners, business owners, and professionals that are trying to raise awareness of the importance of a bank and vital products and services in... Continue
Editor: As the saying goes, money talks. Those of us who are Sonoma Valley Bank customers, and don’t want to see Westamerica Bank close the Boyes Hot Springs and Glen Ellen branches, can use the power of our money to take a stand. My husband... Continue
Editor: Just want to add my support for Montana Mathieu as an advocate for small farmers in our 6th District. Montana has worked for us selling at the local Friday Farmers’ Market and has impressed us with her broad knowledge-base, willingness to work hard and... Continue
Editor: I have recently become aware that the huge, faceless corporate monolith known as AOL has embarked on a national 500 city rollout of “hyper-local” news/blog websites. Sonoma’s newspapers, like many other North Bay cities and towns, find themselves under attack from this effort. AOL’s... Continue
Editor: With the failure of voters to approve Prop 21, our state parks will be facing another round of budget cuts from Sacramento. Earlier this year our Sonoma State Historical Park was closed on Thursdays and the Petaluma Adobe SHP was closed three days a... Continue
Editor: Earlier this month California’s Department of Pesticide Regulation (DPR) registered a controversial, carcinogenic new pesticide (methyl iodide) for use in the state’s strawberry fields. Never in DPR’s history has there been more public outcry against a new pesticide — or such a compelling scientific... Continue