The Nelson Family of Companies, which provides workforce management and staffing services, announced the addition of Steve Furtado and Lydia Wilson to its management team. Steve Furtado was hired as chief financial officer. Previously, Furtado worked at Apple Computer, Birkenstock and Lemo. Lydia Wilson joins... Continue
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Council approves new old home for police At its meeting Wednesday evening, the Sonoma City Council voted to award the $4 million contract for rebuilding the structure at 175/177 First Street West, where the council chambers and police station have been located next to each... Continue
Renowned Jack London scholar and writer Dr. Clarice Stasz brings Jack London’s women to life in a lecture at the Sonoma Community Center on Thursday, March 29, at 6:30 p.m. The lecture is the first in a series of spring events sponsored by the Community... Continue
Crying ‘whoa,’ city councilmembers Joanne Sanders, Aug Sebastiani, and Ken Brown delayed, at council’s March 7 meeting, the planned award of a $4 million contract to rebuild the Sonoma police station and city council chambers located at 177 First St. West. The three councilmembers felt... Continue
The Sonoma City Council is moving ahead toward construction of a three-unit emergency overnight shelter next to the presently vacant police station and council chambers at 177 First St. West. At its March 7 meeting, council authorized the transfer to that project of $220,000 in... Continue
360 Global Wine Company announced Monday that it and its wholly owned subsidiary, 360 Viansa, LLC, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization on March 7. The company’s board of directors approved the filing of the petitions. John Bryan was appointed by the board as chief... Continue
Not all multi-million dollar businesses in Wine Country grow from the fruit of the vine. Take the case of Price Pumps. It has been manufacturing and marketing high-quality pumps from its headquarters in Sonoma for over a half-century but few people know the company is... Continue
That’s what the school board voted at its regular meeting Tuesday night. Our local public schools are funded with monies transferred by the state from the taxes we pay. That’s for operations. Funds for capital projects (buying land and doing construction) also come from the... Continue
One of Sonoma's best-recognized personalities was mugged sometime Tuesday night. Trixie, the mannequin who sits inside the ticket booth at the Sebastiani Theatre and smiles silently at all passerby, was knocked around by someone who smashed in a panel of the ticket booth's doorand made... Continue
That’s what the school board voted at its regular meeting Tuesday night. Our local public schools are funded with monies transferred by the state from the taxes we pay. That’s for operations. Funds for capital projects (buying land and doing construction) also come from the... Continue