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How Sebastiani’s Performing Arts Camp will carry on during Covid

[caption id="attachment_103754" align="aligncenter" width="420"] This year's Sebastiani Theatre summer Performing Arts Camp will keep kids busy, at home.[/caption] The Sebastiani Theatre summer Performing Arts Camp, a virtual Sonoma tradition after 26 years thanks to Diana and Roger Rhoten, will go virtual this year -- as... Continue

Best Night Ever, streaming

When the show must go on, it goes online. Transcendence Theatre Company opens its 2020 season with the streaming showcase Don’t Stop Believin, July 17-19, on the TTC website through the online platform Vimeo.  The 2020 virtual season, titled Best Night Ever Online, is a... Continue

Quick response douses two-acre fire on Sonoma hillside

A fire on Sonoma's Montini Preserve was put out Friday after burning two acres off Norrbom Road. No structures were threatened, according to Sonoma Valley Fire Rescue, which reported "a quick halt on the fire's forward progress" at about noon. Crews from SVFRA, Schell Vista, Marin... Continue

Sonoma Valley’s new wave of farm-to-table

By Jonah Raskin | Sun Contributor Ross Cannard is part of a new farm-to-table movement, something that’s not yet a movement, but that might become one. It would link kitchen workers and chefs to field workers and farmers, and it’s beginning right here in Sonoma... Continue

School district leaders meet concerned parents with online forum

Facing the dire challenges of housing insecurity, food insecurity, and job insecurity, a core community group came together in June to identify the issues most important to them. Ultimately, education was the decided priority. Sonoma Valley School Superintendent Socorro Shiels addressed the issues during a... Continue

Who in Sonoma got Covid bail-out money?

A search of zip code 95476 shows the 125 companies that received federal loans of at least $150,000 through the emergency Payroll Protection Program. Royal City Bell LLC, described as a catering company, received a loan of between $5 and $10 million, according to data... Continue

Hacked! Idiots tamper with Sonoma Sun print issue

Hours after the July 9 issue of the Sonoma Valley Sun hit the streets yesterday, some misguided fool inserted, by hand, an anonymous flier into at least several issues, railing against the use of face masks to fight Covid-19. The crude set of alleged "facts"... Continue

Marcie Waldron has passed away

Tireless Sonoma volunteer and inspirational community booster Marcie Waldron has passed away. She was a longtime Sonoma Community Center board member, Vintage House board member and a part of Kiwanis Club of Sonoma Valley. Sonoma City Council named her the town's Alcaldessa in 2015, the... Continue

Sun in the Studio: Brigitte McReynolds

  By Jackie Lee | Sun Fine Arts Brigitte McReynolds remembers painting a piece of scrap wood with turquoise paint when she was only four years old, growing up in Germany. Later, she studied for two years at art school in Munich, followed by two... Continue