When federal agencies began moving quickly this year to expand offshore oil and gas drilling and advance permits for deep-sea mining, counties up and down the California coast faced a common challenge with limited opportunities for public input. On Nov. 4, the Sonoma County Board... Continue
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Management and Employees Alike Praise the Agreement By Anna Pier In the spring of 2025, with no bugles or fanfare, the Fairmont Sonoma Mission Inn became unionized. The contract between management and Unite Here Local 2 was signed March 19, 2025, concluding a two-year campaign... Continue
Starting January 1, 2026, the minimum wage rate in the City of Sonoma is $18.47/hour for large employers (26 or more employees) and $17.38/hour for small employers (25 or fewer employees). The scheduled increase is included in the minimum wage ordinance adopted by the City Council in... Continue
Nobody Should Go Hungry Thanksgiving in the United States is certainly different this year. Many Sonoma Valley restaurants are offering special dinners for dining in or to take out, and others are just staying closed to be with families and friends and avoid paying holiday... Continue
In a communication to the Sonoma Valley Community, Sonoma Valley Hospital Board Chair Wendy Lee Myatt summarized the current condition of the hospital's finances, staffing, capital projects, and other relevant information. The report was very positive overall, which is good news for our community and... Continue
Trustees Hear Charter School Proposal and Address the Superintendent Search By Anna Pier A full five-member Board of Trustees of the Sonoma Valley Unified School District met in regular session on November 13, after an almost two hour Closed Session with no reportable action. The... Continue
Gratitude is a multi-faceted feeling. It can be intensely personal. It can be on behalf of others. It can be about things, and it can be about people. And it can even be about the state of a nation. Historically, America’s Thanksgiving Day has been... Continue
By Kathleen Hill This past Monday, Facebook brought up a memory for me with a lovely photo of the now late and dear chef John McReynolds and his assistant demonstrating cooking vegetables to Altimira Middle School science students. Many of those students squirmed at first,... Continue
By Marisa Kendall This article was originally published by CalMatters For weeks, California’s homeless service providers have worried about rumors that the federal government was going to cut funds for permanent housing. Now, those cuts are here. Shortly after the federal government reopened, the U.S.... Continue
Some elements are compatible, others incompatible. If in prolonged close contact with each other, when compatible there is stability; when incompatible, an electro-chemical, alchemical process caused by electron transfer between the two elements alters their structure and produces transformation. So too it is in marriage.... Continue