by Stacey Tuel | Special to The Sun Across the Valley, our children are digging deep into understanding how to nourish themselves. With thriving school gardens in each elementary, middle, and high school, our students learn with their hands (and tastebuds) where their food comes... Continue
What’s Happening
Local Sonoma Valley News:
Sonoma County Sheriff Coroner’s Office has released of the person who died on Thursday afternoon, March 24, 2016, after being pinned behind a horse trailer and vehicle, at a property gate on Dunbar Road in Glen Ellen. The deceased is identified as Jack Allen Bingham,... Continue
The AARP sponsored Tax Assistance Program has begun at Vintage House and continues each Monday and Wednesday morning from 9 a.m. to noon. The program is designed to help low and middle income taxpayers prepare and file their federal and state income tax returns. This... Continue
Sonoma's Planning Commission gave the First Street East project, combining housing, hotel, cafe and swim club, a gentle nod of "approval" last night at the second study session held to review the proposal. The developer, Caymus Capital, revised their original proposal which the commission had... Continue
Beware the latest twist on the phone con job. Sonoma City staff have received two reports of water customers who received a call stating that the routing number for their on-line water bill payment was wrong and that their water was about to be shut... Continue
Think your kitchen gets dirty after cooking a big dinner? Try 300 dinners a night, five times a week – nearly 16,000 meals a week, that’s what volunteers of the Meals on Wheels program produce in the Trinity Episcopal Church’s kitchen on East Spain Street.... Continue
The Sonoma Community Center, which has produced the town’s Fourth of July Parade since 1963, said that because of liability and funding concerns, including the loss of an annual grant from the City, it will not produce the event beyond this year. “Quite simply, the... Continue
Dawson McCahon, Savannah Schell, Sofia Willliams, and Andrea Robledo Cervantes are finalists for the second annual HWY 12 Properties Scholarship program for college-bound Sonoma Valley High School FFA (Future Farmers of America) members. The finalists, who plan to pursue a degree in agriculture at a... Continue
Ample rain and warm temperatures have brought an early spring to our area. The trees are beginning to get green as this year's leaves emerge from hiding and we can already see evidence of wildflowers popping up along our urban sidewalks and meadows. If last... Continue
The Sonoma Valley water supply has never been treated with chloramines, the lead-leaching agent causing widespread health problems in Flint, Michigan, said Public Works Director Dan Takasugi. “Neither the City nor the Sonoma County Water Agency use chloramine to treat City water,” Takasugi said. “Residents... Continue