Did you see the fish in Fryer Creek? Sonoma Creek? At the falls at Sugarloaf? Everyone is so excited about seeing salmon returning to our streams. Smart phones have been lighting up and Facebook buzzing in Sonoma Valley with photos of bold shimmering fish jumping... Continue

By Larry Barnett  The Sonoma Valley Rotary has been busy, very busy. During the past six months, Charles Goodwin, (pictured) President of the club reports, the service club has:   Raised $25,000 for the volunteer firefighters to help fund the July 4th fireworks.   Partnered... Continue

At its meeting of December 18, 2024, Vice-Mayor Patricia Farrar-Rivas was selected by her fellow City Council members to be Mayor of Sonoma in 2025. Patricia has been a Councilwoman for the City Council of Sonoma, California since 2022. She became Vice-Mayor in 2023. She... Continue

SOS and Unity Kitchen Provide Essential Safety Net By David Bolling Hunger has been a publicly-recognized issue in the United States since the Great Depression when 25 percent of the workforce was unemployed, vast quantities of farm produce rotted in the fields and many millions... Continue

By Jon Wilson LAFCO Refuses To Go Outside the Box. (Pictured: Map of current SDC boundary) On December 4, it seemed the place to be was the Sonoma County Supervisor chambers in Santa Rosa. Grabbing most of the headlines was the Board of Supervisors decision... Continue

The special City Council meeting on December 18, 2024, will focus on a presentation and public hearing regarding the City of Sonoma’s transition to by-district elections. Public comment will be welcomed during the hearing. No other items will be discussed at this meeting. Please view the... Continue

The Sonoma Valley Historical Society is looking for volunteers/interns to assist with a project at the Mountain Cemetery in Sonoma: taking photos and documenting every grave-marker, collecting names, dates, etc. Their intern, Eowyn Medeiros from Berea College in Kentucky, is managing the project and working... Continue

IOLERO, the County of Sonoma's Independent Office of Law Enforcement Review and Outreach, has partnered with Sonoma State University on a Community Policing project to better understand the perspectives of Sonoma County residents and the Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office regarding community-oriented policing practices. They have... Continue