The Mobile Marketing Association's CEO & CMO Summit gathered the digital elite to Sonoma for the weekend. But for all the big industry execs and influencers roaming the Sonoma Mission Inn, the hottest selfie get was U.S. soccer star Megan Rapinoe, co-caption of the Women's... Continue

A class of 16 teenagers marks completion of a Teen Services Sonoma summer Work Readiness Certification course at The Club in Maxwell Village. Funded by a Community Grant from Impact100 Sonoma, the program teaches skills needed to enter the job market: the application and hiring... Continue

Does My Fair Lady have a place in the post #MeToo movement culture? Eliza Doolittle, the street urchin transformed under the tutelage of a male professor, goes through intentional character development, but were her actions driven by self empowerment or misogynistic expectations? The “Cinderella story”... Continue

County Budget Reflects our Priorities – Mental Health Services, Roads, Pension Liabilities, Recovery and Resilience… By Supervisor Susan Gorin The Sonoma County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously June 14 to adopt a $1.78 billion budget for Fiscal Year 2019-2020. Each year I write about the budget... Continue

By Justin Cox Summer. While many Sonoma teenagers were hanging with friends, taking vacations, or lounging in the sun, some local students put themselves to work by taking part in the third annual Youth Engagement Seminar at Sonoma Valley High School.  A two-week seminar co-sponsored... Continue

The open-space Sonoma lot at West MacArthur and Fourth Street has been sold by the Sonoma Valley Health Care District to developer DeNova Homes for $3.3 million. DeNova plans to build 22 units on the 2.9-acre parcel, often referred to as the South Lot, while... Continue

By Dean Szanyi | Student reporter At Sonoma Valley High School, I was among students taking U.S. History who were given a seemingly impossible assignment in class towards the end of the school year. The teacher had convinced us it was “Constitution Day,” and that... Continue

Ron Lawson, who lead the Rotary Club of Sonoma Valley’s fundraising and relief efforts during and after the October, 2017 wildfires, is the club's new president. The long-time Sonoma Valley resident helped raise and distribute more than $1 million in money and goods to fire... Continue

You were brought up in Sonoma, right? I was born right here at Sonoma Valley Hospital in 1994, and spent my school years here as well. I attended the Sonoma Charter School and then graduated from Sonoma High. I was the student body President in... Continue