Safety and risk management are standard features of all outdoor programs. Day hikes, weekend expeditions or summer camp are mini “outdoor programs” where a small bit of knowledge can go a long way to reducing your envelope of risk and thereby keeping you and your... Continue

An 18 year old named Brian Mena has been arrested and booked at the Sonoma County Jail with a $40,000 bail on suspicion of burglary. Mena may have been the man who a local Boyes Hot Springs woman found crawling into her apartment kitchen window... Continue

Community separators, a concept approved by County voters 20 years ago, have stopped sprawl in rural and agricultural lands. In November, Sonoma County voters will vote on extending those rules for another 30 years. On Thursday, June 9, Teri Shore of the Greenbelt Alliance will... Continue

Keith Rhinehart, 1st District Supervisorial candidate, finished third in the race with about 10 percent of the vote. He released the following statement this morning: “I want to congratulate both Supervisor Gorin and fellow candidate Gina Cuclis on their election results. First, Supervisor Gorin for... Continue

Sonoma County Board of Supervisors incumbent Susan Gorin won the First District seat outright Tuesday, avoiding a November runoff by getting the majority of votes in the three-candidate campaign. Gorin got 54.2 percent of the vote, Gina Cuclis had 35.2 percent and Keith Rhinehart got... Continue

A second information session about the Fetters Apartments, a 60-unit family housing project on Highway 12 in the Springs, will be held Thursday, June 16. Applications are now open for the affordable housing property and the meeting will be hosted by representatives from MidPen Housing,... Continue

According to the Sonoma County Sheriff's Office, a resident of Boyes Hot Springs confronted a man who was crawling through her kitchen window and yelled at the him until he crawled back out of the window and ran away. The attempted burglary happened around 4:30... Continue

At last night's meeting of the Sonoma City Council, City Manager Carol Giovannato unexpectedly announced her retirement. “It is with great emotion that I am publicly announcing my decision to retire on 12/15/16”, Giovannato told the council and the audience members. She added that certain... Continue