Sonoma's Best Hospitality Group, a.k.a Ken and Stacey Mattson, have purchased yet another prominent property in our community, the iconic Sonoma Cheese Factory. A single entity buying up over 100 million dollars of Sonoma Valley properties is a big deal. What we know about the... Continue

The Sonoma Valley Unified School District Board of Trustees decided to pour the money that we voted to go to the educational needs described in the Bond Issue to athletic fields instead. The field at Altimira is locked and as there are no students in... Continue

  Governor Newsom recently announced another reopening plan, different from the July county watch list and the four phases announced in May. Six months and four substantially different plans. Gov. Newsom's latest color-coded, tiered system is furthest from the original purpose for the statewide shutdown--to... Continue

Last Thursday, the Fair Political Practices Commission imposed one of the largest fines ever against Los Angeles County for using taxpayer funds for political ads touting Measure H, a sales tax increase on the ballot in 2017. The action by the FPPC was precipitated by... Continue

Just as our community is facing an unprecedented housing, health, and economic perfect storm, the City of Santa Rosa and Sonoma County received their $245 million PG&E settlement dollars this month – an equally unprecedented and singular opportunity to take action toward solving these crises.... Continue

I thought I would share some good news with you. Sonoma Overnight Support has placed three homeless clients into Los Guilicos Village, temporary housing opened by the County on Pythian Road to take the overflow of homeless from the Joe Rodota Trail. Special thanks to... Continue

Dear Councilmembers, Supervisors: COVID-19 is a disaster, and as a community, we are feeling the impacts of the disaster, impacts that will only increase in the next few months. We look to our local government to provide disaster services, as it did during the fires,... Continue