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The Ruptured World Order

Editor’s Note: On January 20, on the global stage provided by the World Economic Forum at Davos, Switzerland, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney delivered one of the most important and prescient speeches of the Trump era. At the risk of boring some readers, and hopefully... Continue

Seth Dolinsky: Friday Farmers Market – Local Food Central

Sonoma’s Friday Farmers market – officially the Sonoma Valley Certified Farmer’s Market (SCVFM) – has been the Valley's main source for locally produced food for decades. Over four to be exact, having been founded in 1985 by some forward-thinking farmers and residents, notably including Paul... Continue

Josette Brose-Eichar: Hometown Minneapolis Under Seige

By Josette Brose-Eichar My earliest memories are of north Minneapolis. My older sister, Eileen, walking me to Hawthorn Elementary School on frozen sidewalks. Midday I would walk back to our third-floor tenement apartment alone. Even as a small child I was unafraid to wander from... Continue

Impressions of the War in Ukraine

Kaniv Residents Share Their Pain By Tarney Baldinger On Valentine’s Day, a Sock Hop and Spaghetti Feed will be held at the Sonoma Valley’s Women’s Club to raise funds for Sonoma’s Ukrainian Sister City, Kaniv. To provide context for that event, the Sonoma Sun reached... Continue

Democracy Grows in Sonoma, Part 1

By Jim Bohar  The City Council voted to change the Sonoma voting process for electing City Council members from at-large (city-wide representation)  to district elections beginning this year. The voters will be divided into five districts, each having their own Council Member.  How will this... Continue

Close-Up with Valley’s Craft Artists

Intimate View of Artists in Craft in the Valley Show   By Anna Pier  Craft in the Valley is a remarkable exhibit in Room 212 of the Sonoma Community Center featuring local artists. It began when the show's curators, Simon Blattner and Barbara Wells, made an... Continue

Editorial: Not Just Any Flag 

The Pride Flag was first flown at Sonoma Valley High in 2019, hoisted, as an outcome of student advocacy, at a ceremony which students heralded as marking a new inclusivity at their school. It has been proudly flying below the Stars and Stripes on the... Continue

David Bolling: Is The Frog of Democracy Dead?

The proverbial frog-in-the-pot is toast, a wafer of black carbon, a skeletal memory of it’s original form. We watched it shrink as the water boiled away, then we wondered if it would snap back to life before the heat shriveled the carcass. Maybe the frog... Continue