The proposal to transform the Sonoma Developmental Center (SDC) near Glen Ellen into a suburban subdivision with more than 960 homes, 400,000 sq. ft. of commercial space and a resort hotel, remains in limbo, but opposition from the Sonoma Valley community and regional organizations is... Continue

The owners of the Cooperage building, sometimes referred to as the Ice House, will appear before the City Council on September 4, 2024 at a public hearing. The appellants are requesting that the council overturn the Sonoma’s Planning Commission denial of a use permit to... Continue

The Sonoma Valley Regional Library is hosting an exhibition of paintings by Gayle Manfre from  September 1 to 30. The public is invited to meet the artist at a reception on Friday, September 13 from 4:00pm to 5:30 pm in the library’s forum room. Light... Continue

Sonoma County has suspended enforcement of a building code that prohibits natural gas or propane appliances in most new residential construction after a federal court ruled that local ordinances preventing the use of gas appliances are overridden by federal law. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court... Continue

Sausage Emporium's Miranda Ives teased us with an announcement of something new in the works, and now that we know what. Sausage Emporium will be no more, and a new restaurant run by the same people will take its place. The new name of the... Continue

The Sun reached out to City Council member Sandra Lowe, a delegate to the Democratic National Convention, to get her thoughts and reactions to the nearly week-long event.  "I joined 20,000 delegates, reporters, electeds, tech millionaires and activists into jampacked United Center- the home of... Continue

There are a number of measures on the ballot this November that have local impacts.  Proposition 33 - Rent Control This statewide measure, a result of the initiative process, would repeal what’s called the Costa-Hawkins law of 1995 that prevents cities from imposing rent control.... Continue

While the Paris Olympics had most of us enthralled as it unfolded across our TV screens, John Litzenberg, Head Track & Field Coach at Sonoma Valley High School, had a uniquely personal and tactile interest in the games. That’s because 40 years ago, on the... Continue

There have been concerns for years about well extraction of groundwater in Sonoma Valley. Studies from twenty five years ago documented the expansion of salty brine from the Bay seeping miles northward, a result it was speculated, of brine filling the negative pressure within aquifers... Continue