By Jim Bohar The City Council election is scheduled for November 3, 2026 to elect one member from districts 1, 3 and 5 for four year terms to 2030. The nomination period for candidate registration is Monday, July 13, 2026 through Friday, August 7 at... Continue
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Steven Serafini Sonoma Valley Sun Sports Editor While settling in as the inaugural Sports Editor of the Sonoma Valley Sun, I’m steadily gaining traction to navigate the different avenues I’ll be taking in covering the sports scenes throughout the Valley of the Moon. My coverage... Continue
FRIDAY MAY 29 at 4:00 pm on zoom Tickets: $21 ($16 for Praxis members) Registration: www.praxispeace.org JEREMY LENT – The Path to Creating an Eco-Civilization Today, humanity faces an imminent choice: continue with a system built on extraction and endless growth, or reimagine civilization itself.... Continue
No, you're not seeing double. FISH (Friends in Sonoma Helping) is thrilled to announce that it has acquired a new building adjacent to FISH Central (already painted to match!) This purchase reflects the significant growth and expansion seen in their services as they adapt to... Continue
DGS Is Not Concerned? By David Bolling A month after the California Department of General Services (DGS) ostensibly found a way to fund an effort by the California Conservation Corps to start weed-whacking the overgrown grounds at the Sonoma Developmental Center, it became apparent that,... Continue
It was just one year ago on May 22, 2025 that Norma, my wife of fifty years, died suddenly. I’m still wrestling with the impact of that, and I expect I will for the rest of my life. In my dream world she won’t leave... Continue
Anna Pier sat down with Vanessa Rognlien (pron."rung-lin,") in the Board Room of the Sonoma Community Center (SCC) to learn about its Executive Director, and discover some of the reasons the Center is flourishing How did you connect with the Community Center? I began as... Continue
During the Indiana chapter of my boyhood there was a deep gorge that channeled the East Fork of the Whitewater River through the middle of town. And in that gorge, on the banks of that river, there was an enormous, abandoned, multi-storied brick warehouse where,... Continue
By Larry Barnett The discretionary decision-making authority of jurisdictions like The City of Sonoma about local land use, particularly housing, is now severely limited by state legislation. What was once a matter of applying community sentiment, political will, and local support is now a matter... Continue
Bring up the budget hearings of the Sonoma City Council with an average resident of Sonoma and their eyes glaze over. Hundreds of pages long, few people have the time or interest to wade through charts and tables filled with columns of numbers. And yet,... Continue