Tour de Fox Sonoma, one of the largest fundraisers for Parkinson’s research, was a great event, reports Annie Falandes. Team Castelli, led by he husband Larry Castelli, brought in close to $10k, and the event total was about $3.5 million. "We had better than 100 friends participate,"... Continue

Every Tuesday, 3:30 – 5:30 p.m., through December the library will provide a quiet space, a healthy snack, supplies and trained volunteers to help with homework for students in grades K-12. Volunteers will assist children and teens with various homework assignments and help develop literacy... Continue

Standing outside his Lab Biology classroom, Sonoma Valley High School freshman Joseph Silvi took this shot of Monday’s solar eclipse. While at Crescent Montessori School, Joseph won a blue ribbon in the Sonoma County Science Fair for a behavioral science project, and first place in... Continue

Sonoma County Sheriff's Deputies are asking for the public's help identifying the suspect in a credit card fraud case through photos taken from surveillance video. The suspect found a wallet at a gas station on the afternoon of August 13, and soon used the stolen credit cards to... Continue

The Sonoma County Board of Supervisors today appointed Rob Giordano, who had held the post on an interim basis since the retirement of former Sheriff Steve Freitas on August 1, as the Sheriff-Coroner for the County of Sonoma. “I am honored to serve Sonoma County,” said Sheriff... Continue

SMART will kick off passenger rail service on Friday, August 25 with a Grand Opening celebration at the Santa Rosa Downtown station and free rides along the 10-station route between the County airport and San Rafael. The party begins at 9 a.m. and includes food,... Continue

I was born in Seattle –- a premature birth, so I got to be accidentally American. I was raised in an ashram in Burnaby, British Columbia on the outskirts of Vancouver. My parents met in the ashram during the late 1960s/early 70s – a revolutionary... Continue