Jon Parker, past president of Rotary Club of Sonoma Valley, recently presented Tom Deely, president of the Sonoma Valley Fire & Rescue Association, with a check for $3,000 to support Sonoma's annual fireworks event. The contribution was generated by Rotary’s hot dog sales during the... Continue

Sonoma Old School is getting younger. Not that Rob Wilson, the high-energy proprietor of the skate and surf shop on Broadway, isn’t young at heart and then some. But the super-popular store owner and youth advocate has sold the business to Jamey Vazquez, age 26.... Continue

  [caption id="attachment_92884" align="aligncenter" width="420"] Bonnie Walner preps for her second Bat Mitzvah, 60 years after the first, by reading The Torah with her grandkids. “One of the greatest messages from the Torah has been to treat others as you would like to be treated,”... Continue

A newly-formed public-interest group named Friends of the Broadway Corridor filed suit today in the Sonoma County Superior Court. The case challenges the Sonoma City Council’s failure to prepare an environmental impact report (EIR) before approving the Sonoma Gateway project on a split vote. A... Continue

By Georgia Kelly  In 2017, the Southern Poverty Law Center published a report, “The Trump Effect,” which detailed the degrading and violent rhetoric that the Trump campaign had unleashed on the American public. The meanness and vitriol extended toward “the other” – that is, anyone... Continue

The comedy event of 2019 – granted, it’s only on January 4, but still – convenes Will Durst, Debi Durst, Johnny Steele, Michael Bossier, Mari Magaloni and Arthur Gaus for the ‘Big Fat Year End Kiss Off Comedy Show,’ a riotous recap of political news... Continue

Start the new year off on the right foot -- actually, both of them, and on an incline -- with the 2019 First Day Hike, the 6th annual January 1 hike to the summit of Jack London Park (or a more moderate two-mile walk). 10... Continue