The Sonoma Valley Catalyst Fund has created a new open grant program to aid in the recovery of Sonoma Valley nonprofits that are restructuring their services due to the pandemic crisis. Catalyst is a temporary philanthropic fund that aims to improve our community’s collective response to... Continue
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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 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
Where to find the County's free Covid vaccine clinics July 12-18. Continue
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
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
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
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
In an announcement that Supervisor Susan Gorin said took the Board by surprise, President Joe Biden announced that the County of Sonoma will receive a $37 million grant from the Federal Emergency Management Agency for wildfire risk reduction. “Because Sonoma County knows all too well... Continue
Sen. Bill Dodd, D-Napa, will host a virtual town hall July 13 on schools, reopening and the role of innovation during the pandemic featuring California Superintendent Tony Thurmond and other distinguished panelists. The town hall will be streamed live over multiple channels and broadcast on... Continue