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Get ready for High School!

Sonoma Valley High School’s fall semester begins soon, but there’s work to be done before classes begin on August 14. Step one: pick up registration packets for all grade levels, and sport packets, at the SVHS main office between 7:30 a.m. and 4 p.m. Packets... Continue

Blanket coverage in Glen Ellen

Leslie Vaughn and Janie Soto, board members of the Glen Ellen Fair Association, show off the featured prize for the Glen Ellen Village Fair raffle, a hand-made quilt. A tradition within a tradition, the annual quilt - designed and stitched by volunteers with the theme... Continue

Where in Sonoma?

Can you identify where this photo was taken? The answer is in this week's edition of The Sun. Do you have a mystery pic for a future photo puzzler? Send it to news@sonomasun.com Continue

Building a resume

Students of the Sonoma Teen Services summer building project get some hands-on experience during a visit to Steel Geisha Designs. The collaborative pilot welding and blacksmithing project, started at Hanna Boys Center in 2016, returned this summer in an expanded version to include carpentry. During... Continue

When your doctor says ‘take a hike’

If your doctor feels you need some fresh air and a little exercise, the prescription just might be a walk in the park. Sugarloaf Ridge State Park is participating in the ParkRx program, where a prescription from your Sonoma County medical provider means a free... Continue

Bank robbery suspect walks into Sonoma PD

The suspect in the robbery of Sonoma’s Rabobank branch turned himself in at the Sonoma Police station on July 28, three days after allegedly simulating a weapon and demanding money from a clerk. Mohammad Kharufeh, 39, of American Canyon, was booked into Sonoma County Jail.... Continue

Sonoma PD’s ‘Night Out’ at Farmers Market

The Sonoma Police Department has partnered with the Tuesday Night Farmers Market to celebrate “National Night Out” on August 1. National Night Out is an annual community-building campaign that promotes police-community partnerships and neighborhood camaraderie to make neighborhoods safer, more caring places to live. It provides a... Continue

The Sonoma Garden: Signs of troubled trees

By Karen Boness -- I recently got a call from a woman who was very distressed about her Japanese maple trees. As she described it, the trees were dying. Based on her description I suspected that her trees were succumbing to verticillium wilt. caused by... Continue