Thursday night: Council to hear Napa St. Hotel appeal

There's likely to be a large crowd filling the Community Meeting Room on the evening of June 22 when the appeal of the Environmental Impact Report of the 62-room, 80-seat restaurant Hotel Project Sonoma on West Napa Street takes place at the special meeting of... Continue

Under the Sun: John Curotto, Sonoma’s garbage collector

Tell me your story, John. My family lived in San Francisco, where my father worked for Sunset Scavenger. In 1949, my parents bought a piece of property on Grove Street here in the valley - a shack really, perhaps 20 x 20 feet. We'd come... Continue

Century-old fig tree bulldozed on school property

Despite many recent appeals from Valley residents to preserve an ancient fig tree on the campus of Adele Harrison Middle School, the Sonoma Valley Unified School District had it bulldozed yesterday morning. The tree stood at the end of what will be a new artificial... Continue

Chapter 4: The mystery comes to Sonoma

After powering up his aging laptop and waiting for the signal, Felix checks the classifieds. Nothing. He throws the paper on the table. Whatever is happening in the present seems irrelevant. Poverty is timeless that way, thinks Felix. It could be last year’s paper and... Continue

The Sun’s Summer Reads

Jude Sales, manager of Sonoma’s one and only bookstore, the wonderful Readers’ Books, talks about her favorites for summer reading. Beach reads/fun reads/guilty pleasures: The Nest by Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney An entertaining family story about the in-fighting that ensues when one brother has borrowed against... Continue

Bill Willers resigns from Sonoma Planning Commission

Bill Willers, longtime Sonoma Planning Commission member, tendered his resignation today in a letter to Mayor Hundley and the City Council. In it he explained the reasons for his resignation, saying, "...the current deliberation and directions taken by the City Council regarding the future appointment... Continue

Five years later: The deal that saved Jack London Park

Five years ago, Jack London State Historic Park was one of 70 state parks threatened with closure -- the state was strapped for cash, and the parks system was facing a $22 million deficit. But since then, when the nonprofit consortium Jack London Park Partners... Continue

Relationships 101

Life can be better as a couple or it can be worse or it can be for better or worse. It can also be very hard work. The divorce rate is above 50 percent for a reason. Nobody taught us “Relationship 101.” As a psychotherapist I... Continue

Sonoma Valley death notices

Death notices Barbara Charlotte Arena, 93, of Sonoma, passed away May 15, 2017. Marcella Aslaksen, 94, of Sonoma, passed away May 27, 2017. Carol J. Beckley, 83, of Sonoma, passed away May 1, 2017. Mildred Ruth Ferrando, 88, of El Verano, passed away May 12,... Continue

The keys to success

Recent high school graduate Belen Fonseca has a great incentive to get her driver’s license – a new car, donated by Dan Roseland of Sonoma Chevrolet. Roseland has carried on a Sonoma Valley High School tradition, providing a ‘new’ used car each year to the... Continue

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