Pre-pandemic, when a decision was made to move Sonoma Valley Unified School District board meetings from centrally located Sonoma City Council Chambers to the Railroad Avenue district offices, there was a major drop off in family attendance. For those of us attending district board meetings... Continue
Letters To The Editor
Dear Friends, Easter Holiday fills our hearts with truest kindness, love, and joy. This holiday is a symbol of going from death to life which in turn gives us hope for a spiritual and physical resurrection. So let everything that is beautiful on this Earth... Continue
Having served on the board for over 15 years (longest serving board member in the history of the Sonoma Valley Unified School District), and having seen more than my fair share of a changing of the guards in Superintendent leadership, I can safely say... Continue
As volunteer tutors for Dunbar Elementary School, we visit the school each week providing individual students with reading support. Through our interactions at Dunbar we have a firsthand account of what an incredible school this is in the heart of Sonoma Valley. The love and... Continue
Last Sunday I attended the “When Irish Eyes Are Shining” performance of the Sonoma Valley Chorale. It was sold-out and for good reason. These performers, many of them your neighbors, were magnificent under the direction of the chorale’s third excellent conductor, Travis Rogers. The hour... Continue
The Sonoma Valley School Board Trustees are considering closing or repurposing five schools in the Sonoma Valley including Dunbar Elementary School -- the oldest school in the Valley and the second oldest school in California. As a substitute teacher in the Valley for many years,... Continue
What a choice, Pence or DeSantis for president in '24. It's like a choice of: How would you prefer to die, burned at the stake or drawn and quartered? Pence never spoke out about Trump's outrages for four years, except the once when he knew... Continue
I hope readers of the Sun invested their reading mind listening to Jerry Bernhaut's compelling statement (What Sonoma County can do about the climate crisis, 3/1) and took to heart its message. A stunningly calm ecologically critical and salient laying out the situation we find... Continue
By Jerry Bernhaut -- The international summit on climate change, COP27, resulted in an agreement to create a fund to support the developing countries coping with the impacts of climate disasters. There was no agreement to phase out the use of fossil fuels. There was... Continue
’Sonoma is a destination city! One of our main sources of revenue is tourism, and yet, our public restrooms are more than a disgrace. This past weekend the men’s bathroom in Depot Park had a major clog causing the back-up to run onto the floor... Continue