Editor: This last Sunday I attended a community event at the Sonoma Charter School sponsored by La Luz, which featured the first debate for 1st District Supervisor. The audience was mostly Latino parents and their children from the Springs. The debate was preceded by a... Continue
Letters To The Editor
Editor: For the first time, we will be electing a supervisor who is not from Sonoma Valley. We need to carefully consider the person we choose to represent us. We need a supervisor who will be responsive to the Sonoma Valley constituents, who will make... Continue
Editor: Save Our Sonoma Roads (SOSroads) endorses John Sawyer for First District County Supervisor. John is a successful business person, an experienced civic leader and a fifth-generation Sonoma County native. His knowledge about the county’s crumbling road system is significant and has grown since we... Continue
Editor:Like many people here in Sonoma, I feel that the valley would be better represented on the Board of Supervisors by a valley resident. Unlike many however, I don’t believe that the valley has been particularly well represented by local resident Valerie Brown. In my... Continue
Editor: The newly formed relationship between Sonoma and Takaj, Hungary seems to have inspired a renewed interest in Agoston Haraszthy and the Buena Vista Winery. Harazthy established the Buena Vista Winery 1859 with the intention of producing more and better wines from European plantings, and... Continue
Editor: In imagining a development as large as Chateau Sonoma, being built right in the heart of the City of Sonoma, makes one shudder and want to run away from it! It may bring in all that money from more tourists, but at what expense.... Continue
Editor: Four years ago, one of our sons risked his own money to start a new business from scratch. Today, that business employs 16 people full time and is still growing at double digits. Government’s only role has been to impose regulations and collect taxes.... Continue
Editor: This is in response to June Englands letter, "Who built this business" from the 8/2/2012 issue. I've never written in before, but felt compelled to after reading her quote from Obama. She stated "If you've got a business....you didn't build that. Someone else made... Continue
Editor: We recently received in the mail a notice from the City regarding a proposed new five-year program of increases in the water rates we pay and a public hearing scheduled for Monday September 17th at 6 p.m. However if you read toward the bottom... Continue
Editor: Obama’s presidential executive order, I. E. Dream Act, provides undocumented youths with a path to citizenship, letting them earn permanent legal status through education or military service. They must have been brought here younger than 16, but must not be over the age of... Continue