Happy Valentines Awards for Valley and Valley Swim Club Somehow chefs Emma Lipp and Stephanie Reagor flew off the high dive and made a clean entry into the not-so-clear pool below. The two chefs left Scribe winery and dove into their Valley Bar + Bottle... Continue
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Intimate View of Artists in Craft in the Valley Show By Anna Pier Craft in the Valley is a remarkable exhibit in Room 212 of the Sonoma Community Center featuring local artists. It began when the show's curators, Simon Blattner and Barbara Wells, made an... Continue
In 2020, Sonoma’s City Council approved an application for the creation of a Ting in Depot Park to honor the contribution of Chinese immigrants who labored in Sonoma more than a century ago. A Ting is a large gazebo or pavilion type structure of traditional... Continue
The Pride Flag was first flown at Sonoma Valley High in 2019, hoisted, as an outcome of student advocacy, at a ceremony which students heralded as marking a new inclusivity at their school. It has been proudly flying below the Stars and Stripes on the... Continue
The proverbial frog-in-the-pot is toast, a wafer of black carbon, a skeletal memory of it’s original form. We watched it shrink as the water boiled away, then we wondered if it would snap back to life before the heat shriveled the carcass. Maybe the frog... Continue
The intersection of State Route 121 and 8th Street East is a key regional corridor that experiences heavy commuter traffic and limited left-turn facilities, leading to congestion and operational challenges. To address these issues, the Sonoma County Transportation and Climate Authorities (SCTCA), in partnership with... Continue
Sets Record Highs in Annual Funding and Membership Exceeds $4.7 Million in Cumulative Giving In 2026, women’s collective giving organization Impact100 Sonoma—one of the valley’s largest funders—will award a record $365,000 in grants to valley-serving nonprofits. That amount will raise the group’s cumulative grant total... Continue
Honoring the Old, Respecting the Present, & Planting for the Future – Hannah Aclufi, Sedra Nathan, and Vincent Distrola In Memory of Hannah This column began as a collaboration with Hannah Aclufi, the native plant nursery manager at the 7th street garden park and one of... Continue
No matter how much order nor how many distinctions we make about the universe, in essence, it’s just a soup of subatomic waves and particles. Whether this represents some sort of primordial order or billions of years of entropy and chaos, is incidental. As human... Continue
Student Opinion Angry, Upset By Madeleine Edwards Sun SVHS Correspondent The pride flag was taken down at Sonoma Valley High School (SVHS) after board member David Bell made the decision that the flag was harmful to student clubs and sports that don’t fly flags on... Continue