I worked for my father during the summers, in his store on Haight Street since I was twelve, saving my money for milkshakes, school clothes and college. In the early '60s, the Haight was a middle-class white neighborhood with a smaller community of Black families.... Continue
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I began my adult life at eighteen protesting the war in Vietnam. The Reverend William Sloane Coffin delivered our high school graduation address decrying America’s militarism, and I took up the cause. Admittedly, my impression of the army was influenced early by watching Phil Silver’s... Continue
Is it time to ignite a new free speech movement in retaliation to the Trump regime, which wants to shut down the freedom of speech guaranteed in the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution? To Wit: Amendment 1: Freedom of religion, speech, and the press:... Continue
I read George Orwell’s 1984, picked up at the local library in 1965, when I was in middle school. I read it again in 1968 for a high school English class. In the late 60’s we had several young, very progressive teachers. In one class... Continue
By Teri Shore When I took the California Naturalist course with the Sonoma Ecology Center (SEC) in March 2020, it was the early days of the COVID epidemic and shutdown. All in-person meetings and field trips were suddenly canceled. While we were all a bit... Continue
Older readers will remember that young Juliet Capulet fell in love with Romeo Montague, an affair complicated by the fact that their families had long been at war with each other. Weighing the implications of Romeo being a Montague, she voiced that now-famous line: “What's... Continue
In what was one of the largest crowds filling the historic Sonoma Plaza to protest the policies and actions of the Trump Administration, thousands turned out to sing, display signs and listen to speakers objecting to the direction the GOP is taking the country. Congressman... Continue
By David Bolling Sierra Nadeau should be dead. OK, that might be a little extreme. But not by much. She was taking a hike up the labyrinth of trails and fire roads that snake up the side of Sonoma Mountain above Glen Ellen. Sierra is... Continue
The Garagiste Festival: Northern Exposure, returns to Sonoma on April 26th for the seventh time to showcase 40 micro-production wineries and 100+ diverse wines from 20+ grape varieties. The festival, which offers first-look access to some of the best, hard-to-find wines from Sonoma, Napa, Mendocino, Marin County, Lodi, Sierra Foothills, and Livermore, takes place at... Continue
Caution: Several Sonoma residents have had mail, including check payments of bills, not arrive at their proper destinations. Some of these were apparently taken from the blue drive-by boxes in front of the Sonoma Post Office, and one person reported having this happen to checks... Continue