By Seth Dolinsky -- As the days get shorter and the temperature drops, the end of the growing season for Sonoma Valley farms is upon us. The Winter Solstice is a time when nature retreats and humanity celebrates. With the heady abundant days of summer... Continue
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Young Virginia O’Hanlon wrote this letter to the editor of New York’s Sun and this response, written by Francis Pharcellus Church, was printed as an unsigned editorial on December, 21, 1897. I am 8 years old. Some of my little friends say there is no... Continue
By Jonah Raskin -- Patrick McMurtry, an accomplished artist, a local historian and a long time worker at the Sonoma Developmental Center, died last September after a long bout with cancer. He was 73-years old, though he probably would have called himself, “years young.” Gael... Continue
This morning it is bitter cold. I go out and pick up the newspaper and it is almost a Minnesota, brittle bite of cold that I feel. But, back inside, in our little Springs house, in my favorite chair, with my feet up on an... Continue
Sonoma Overnight Support served its 50,000th meal of 2021 in early December – nearly three times the annual number only three years ago. The increase speaks to the growing number of homeless and food insecure in Sonoma Valley, and is a testament to the hard-working... Continue
Before we get to the snark and smartassery, we begin with something quite sweet and nice. It begins, though, with Beverly Koepplin, a star volunteer at Friends in Sonoma Helping, contracting Covid. There are people with much worse problems, she figured. Then the house next... Continue
Indoor masking requirements in Sonoma County, including its exemptions for indoor dining and some stable groups of fully vaccinated people, remain unchanged under a new statewide mask mandate from the California Department of Public Health. CDPH will allow counties such as Sonoma, which has required... Continue
Confronting the author's clear and troubling bigotry Opinion by By Jonah Raskin The Jack London State Historic Park in Glen Ellen has a problem. The powers-that-be know they do, though they’re doing as little as possible about it. The problem is London himself who has... Continue
The Chinook salmon that have been making their run up the Sonoma Creek watershed are reaching the end of their life cycle. In a Sonoma Ecology Center video, you can catch a glimpse of changes their bodies undergo after navigating many miles of estuary and... Continue
Among the latest of several major land use and housing laws enacted in California is Senate Bill 9, known as SB9. Scheduled to take effect after the first of the year, SB9 amends existing state land-use laws to allow owners of single family residential parcels... Continue