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Protecting green places between towns and cities

--Teri Shore | For The Sun The green heart of Sonoma Valley is shielded from sprawl and subdivisions by the Glen Ellen-Agua Caliente Community Separator. It stretches across both sides of Highway 12 from Arnold Drive at Glen Ellen to just south of Madrone Road.... Continue

Kids day at the theatre

El Verano School students respond to storyteller Michael Katz as he shares "The United States of Stories," a collection of tall tales, folktales, and native myths from around the country. Thursday's show at Andrews Hall was the first in the Community Center’s Playhouse program, a series of... Continue

True sustainability demands honesty

Sustainability is a concept seeking to account for the earth’s ability to carry aggregate human environmental effects now and into the future. One major effect, greenhouse gas emissions, has clear and measurable negative consequences that threaten the environmental stability upon which our current societies and... Continue

A wonderful ‘Day’

La Luz Center celebrated Dia de Los Muertos with an outdoor party at Rossi's on November 1. Sonoma Valley Latino leaders and Sonoma State Latino leaders collaborated on the colorful event, a tribute to their loved ones. The event included Latin music, a contest for... Continue

Is it still a mad, mad world?

If you look back on July 2014, it was a month filled with wars and rumors of wars, some of Biblical proportion. An airliner carrying nearly 300 men, women and children shot down over the border between Ukraine and Russia and the civil war continues... Continue

Get ready for stricter rules for landscape watering

I recently attended a workshop about the 2015 revisions to California’s Water Efficient Landscape Ordinance (WELO) and it’s clear that water budgeting is getting stricter and irrigation efficiency requirements are getting higher. The aim of changes to WELO: 1) conserve water by reducing turf and... Continue

Meet the main Moose

An exclusive to the Sun by Linda Blum When Ray Welch wanted to arrange a celebration for his wife’s birthday, he asked around and found that Sonoma’s Moose Lodge had an event space that could be rented for a reasonable fee. Except that it was... Continue

Motorcyclist hospitalized after Sonoma accident

At 8:56 AM this morning a crash involving a Honda Pilot SUV and a motorcyclist took place on Arnold Drive and Boyes Blvd. The motorcyclist is current in the hospital with major injuries. We'll report more details as they are released. Drive safe! Continue

Blade & sew needle discovered in Halloween candy

On Monday, we reported that one child had found a razor blade in a candy bar that they received while trick or treating on the northwest side of Sonoma. Ottavio Gravatt, a 12-year-old, discovered a metal blade in a Butterfinger candy bar on Halloween night,... Continue
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