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School Notes: Teen diplomats return from D.C. 

  Seventeen Sonoma Valley High School (SVHS) students recently returned from the North American Model United Nations conference at Georgetown in Washington, D.C. At the conference, over 3,000 students from across the U.S. and around the world come together to role-play being United Nations delegates... Continue

Colors at play

Using proceeds from a Classroom Grant awarded by Sonoma Valley Education Foundation, El Verano students, staff and community, in collaboration with ArtEscape, purchased bright and colorful paint to decorate their blacktop with designs and games. The upgrades serve to engage students with their environment and... Continue

Driver in deadly Sonoma crash gets two-year jail sentence

The driver convicted of causing a 2015 car crash that killed two people on Highway 121 has been sentenced to two years in county jail. Christopher Shuman of Napa, 32, had been convicted of misdemeanor vehicular manslaughter for causing the deaths of Richard and Fay... Continue

Surf’s up: A beginners guide to surfing

Aside from being one of the coolest activities that you can do, surfing is a soul-refreshing and enticing water sport that can get your heart pumping. But surfing communities aren’t always the most welcoming to beginners. This doesn’t mean that it’s too late for you... Continue

My, how Sonoma has changed…

Thursday, February 27: LeBaron and Lynch on Sonoma history Historian Gayle LeBaron and newspaper publisher emeritus Bill Lynch discuss ‘How Sonoma Has Changed’ in another conversational Barn Talk presented by the Sonoma Valley Education Foundation. SVHS history teacher and alumnus Andy Gibson moderates. 6:30 reception, 7... Continue

Nonprofit leaders launch new collaboration

Leaders from six diverse nonprofit organizations gathered this month to launch a three-year campaign to strengthen one another, and themselves, to best deliver quality programs and services to Sonoma Valley residents. This grant program, in its second iteration since first launching in 2015, is made... Continue

Impact100 Sonoma kicks off second decade of impact

  [caption id="attachment_100306" align="aligncenter" width="420"] Amber Gonzales-Vargas, keynote speaker at the Impact100 Sonoma annual Members Meeting[/caption] Welcoming a record 68 new members for 2020, the nonprofit group Impact100 Sonoma announced a membership count of 303 as it kicked off their second decade of giving in... Continue

New ‘Call of the Wild’ film gets Sonoma debut

A day before the big-budget Hollywood film The Call of the Wild opens nationally, the new film based on the 1903 Jack London novel will get a sneak-peak screening at the Sebastiani Theatre. The film, starring Harrison Ford, starts at 7 p.m., 476 First St.... Continue