It's National Library week (April 4-10) and the Sonoma County Library invites you to celebrate by taking advantage of all the free services your library card unlocks. “Libraries are for everyone, and we know we have something you'll love,” Sonoma County Library Director Ann Hammond... Continue

Impact100 Sonoma this year awarded a total of $300,000 in grant funding to 13 Sonoma Valley nonprofits. As always with the annual disbursement, the recipients were selected by a vote of the entire 300-plus Impact100 Sonoma membership. But this year, in a response to the... Continue

Cynthia Tarr -- vocalist, songwriter, voice teacher, choir director and Sonoma Treasure Artist of 2019 -- Cynthia Tarr, is now branching out in a new creative direction – fiction writing. The first in an ambitious five-book series, Ruby is a 'cozy mystery,' with adventure, humor, sex, spirituality...... Continue

When an earthquake hits, many people react by gathering their family and running outside. But what happens after that? By Leslie Nicholson | Sonoma Sun Do you know who lives three doors down from you? Will they need extra help? What happens if a natural... Continue

While we’re busy dealing with a pandemic, there’s another disaster looming on the cloudless horizon, a potential crisis flying under the Doppler: drought. State officials haven’t declared one yet, but two consecutive dry years have created conditions more severe than the brick-in-the-toilet spell of 2013... Continue

I was touched by the column about the sad beauty and inevitable decline of the Sonoma Developmental Center by Josette Brose-Eichar. But I wonder if the “progress and reality” as described must happen, knowing what we’ve lost in the past to “put up a parking... Continue

Sonoma students in grades Transitional Kindergarten through 2nd grade started back to part-time, in-person school on Monday. Next week, the elementary schools will welcome back students in 3rd through 5th grades. Under the new Hybrid plan, students are at school in the morning from 8:20... Continue

With its patrons clicking 28,000 streams totaling 6,300 viewing hours, the Sonoma International Film Festival was a virtual success. The five-day binge wrapped Monday with encores of jury and audience award winners. In all, the festival offered 120 films from 40 countries, with 20 films... Continue

By Emma Melendy, SVHS student --  The Covid-19 pandemic has encouraged people to reevaluate what is important and meaningful in their lives while in isolation. It has also encouraged a group of teenagers to meet to discuss the environmental impact and how we can support... Continue