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Gas leafblowers ousted by School District

Gas leaf blowers were officially replaced with electric leaf blowers last night at a meeting of the Sonoma Valley Unified School District Board of Trustees, with the full support of Superintendent Louann Carlomagno and Maintenance and Operations Officer Tony Albini. In addition, use of the... Continue

County planners to review Vacation Rental Ordinance

The Sonoma County Planning Commission will hold a public hearing to consider a Draft Vacation Rental Ordinance on Thursday, November 19, 5:30 p.m. in the Board of Supervisors Chambers in Santa Rosa. For more information about the meeting, and to read the Draft, contact: www.sonoma-county.org/VacationRentals... Continue

Finance class for kids bears interest

[caption id="attachment_59903" align="aligncenter" width="445"] Sonoma Valley’s Dunbar Elementary School students after successfully completing a five-week course on the basics of personal finance, joined by (from left) Boys and Girls Club Program Director at Dunbar Brooke Padgett, and the two volunteer instructors, Union Bank Sonoma Branch... Continue

Scouts collect food for FISH

The annual Scouting for Food drive for FISH (Friends in Sonoma Helping) will be held Saturday, November 14, when uniformed scouts collect donations at your doorstep between 9 a.m. and 2 p.m. In advance of the pick-up, Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts will distribute flyers... Continue

La Llorona

As a kid, I spent many Sunday nights at my grandparents Augustina and Pablo’s house with my cousins, playing the latest 45 dance records and gossiping about our classmates. Meanwhile, our parents ate donuts and drank coffee around the grey Formica table in the kitchen,... Continue

Under the Sun Interview: K.D. McComb

Do you mind telling me what K.D. stands for? Not at all; it stands for Krishna Devata. I was born into an Ashram community in Vancouver, Canada. Our teacher was Bhaktivedanta Swami. My parents were westerners, and I was raised as a Hindu there for... Continue

Overcome and Achieve — The 2016 Youth of the Year Candidates

[caption id="attachment_59763" align="aligncenter" width="420"] From a field of 12 remarkable teens who have triumphed over personal challenges, one will emerge on November 19 as Boys & Girls Clubs of Sonoma Valley’s Youth of the Year. These four finalists were selected from the 12 Youth of... Continue

Sonoma tricks, nags and nicotine

Halloween brought two particularly nasty scares to families whose kids discovered dangerous items in their candy haul. Frank Gravatt reported, via Facebook, that his 12-year-old son Ottavio had extracted an Exacto-knife blade from a Butterfinger bar. After trick-or-treating in the Robinson/Fano neighborhood, he was comparing... Continue

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
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