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

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

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

[caption id="attachment_100392" align="aligncenter" width="420"] A bus carrying passengers from the quarantined Diamond Princess cruise ship leaves Daikoku Pier on February 19, 2020 in Yokohama, Japan. (Photo by Tomohiro Ohsumi/Getty Images)[/caption] The Sonoma County Department of Health Services (DHS) today confirmed that one case of a... Continue

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

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

  [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

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