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A new kind of summer school experience

  By Leslie Nicholson | Sonoma Valley Sun Sporting their new blue Teen Services/Intern shirts, 20 high school students reported for duty at the Flowery School campus on June 14 and have been busy working in classrooms to support teachers, staff, and students for the... Continue

In the Studio with Michael E. Bartlett

By Jackie Lee | Sonoma Valley Sun Michael Bartlett’s paintings are readily identifiable by their lush colors and luminosity. He has a unique method of applying colors in many glazes to obtain that effect, a time-consuming but rewarding technique which can only be possible through... Continue

School Nurse team meets the challenge

School District Nurses Daniela Ziemer, Emily Henke, and Erin Weaver By Leslie Nicholson | Sonoma Valley Sun Performing the duties of a health professional for a school district, and during an unprecedented pandemic, has put a renewed focus on how our own district nurses play... Continue

FISH at 50

A milestone for the nonprofit Friends In Sonoma Helping A nonprofit like FISH is rare due to its total dependence on volunteers for every task within the organization. An all-volunteer organization celebrating 50 years of service is very, very rare.  FISH, with its mission to... Continue

Students, staff must be masked when schools reopen

California students and school staff will be required to wear masks indoors when campuses reopen next month. According to the state guidelines: Students and staff in the state are required to continue using masks indoors in school settings, whether they are immunized or not. Physical... Continue

In Kenwood, a nice day for a lavender wedding

By Jonah Raskin | Sun Contributor   With a name like Rebecca Rosenberg you’d expect she’d be Jewish. Think again. “Our family is Jewish, my husband and children are Jewish,” Rebecca told me recently. “I go along.”  This summer, Rebecca and Gary’s Jewish daughter, Marissa, who... Continue

Temperatures up, masks off

Sunny skies, brown lawns, preemptive power outages. Ah, summer. When the super hot weather returns (from its vacation in Seattle), so will the threat of fire and PG&E’s Public Safety Power Shutoff program. You remember, that’s when the utility-formerly-known-as-bankrupt shuts off power in advance of... Continue