The Sonoma Ecology Center is offering free trees to land owners with properties that face Highway 12. This effort is to replace the trees which were removed to construct sidewalks and install street lights. Any property that can be seen from highway 12 is eligible... Continue
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Local Sonoma Valley News:
By Fred Allebach | Special to The Sun The Sonoma Valley Hospital board of directors, at a meeting on 2/2/17, reviewed the wording for a Request for Proposal (RFP), of what ways public and private entities may see fit to develop the South Lot hospital... Continue
Sonoma's Planning Commission will take up the topic of a proposed affordable housing project on Broadway, adjacent to the Lodge at Sonoma and across the street from Train Town. The item will be considered at the meeting of February 9, 2017, located in the Community... Continue
The Sonoma Hospital District Board will consider an agenda item at tonight's public meeting to approve an RPF to be sent to developers interested in purchasing the vacant parcel owned by the hospital district. The meeting will be held at the Community Meeting Room, 177... Continue
“Bye Bye Birdie,” the Tony award-winning musical comedy from 1960, tells the Elvis-like story of a hip-shaking, swoon-inducing rock and roll singer who leaves show business for the army, and the effect it has on the teenagers of a small town. The Sonoma Valley High... Continue
A man and woman were arrested Sunday on suspicion of stealing 70 bottles of high-end alcohol at four North Bay Safeway stores, according to the Sonoma Police Department. Matthew Robert Moore, 28, and a female accomplice, Frankie D. Nicholls, 24, both of Sacramento, were arrested... Continue
By Gabrielle Saveri | Special to The Sun -- After a decade of flying under the radar in Sonoma’s exercise scene, en-er-gy fitness, a boutique studio located right off the town’s main square, is celebrating it’s 10-year anniversary. “For the 10 years, I enjoyed being the best kept secret in town,”... Continue
On January 1st of this year, water rates increased within the City of Sonoma. This increase was the result of an ordinance passed in 2014 which called for increases in rates yearly over a period of years until the year 2019. The ordinance also sets... Continue
Donald Trump is now the President of the United States. Normally, we would not devote our editorial to matters of national import, but in this case we’re making an exception. For many months Mr. Trump waged a vigorous campaign against, among others, undocumented immigrants, particularly... Continue
By Marie Curtin | Special to The Sun What happens when you take two hardworking “farmers daughters,” put them in Sonoma and add school-age kids into the mix? What happens is a homegrown nonprofit thrift store -- Republic of Thrift – that has donated over... Continue