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
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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
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
Happy Valentines Awards for Valley and Valley Swim Club Somehow chefs Emma Lipp and Stephanie Reagor flew off the high dive and made a clean entry into the not-so-clear pool below. The two chefs left Scribe winery and dove into their Valley Bar + Bottle... Continue
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
In 2020, Sonoma’s City Council approved an application for the creation of a Ting in Depot Park to honor the contribution of Chinese immigrants who labored in Sonoma more than a century ago. A Ting is a large gazebo or pavilion type structure of traditional... Continue
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
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
The intersection of State Route 121 and 8th Street East is a key regional corridor that experiences heavy commuter traffic and limited left-turn facilities, leading to congestion and operational challenges. To address these issues, the Sonoma County Transportation and Climate Authorities (SCTCA), in partnership with... Continue
Sets Record Highs in Annual Funding and Membership Exceeds $4.7 Million in Cumulative Giving In 2026, women’s collective giving organization Impact100 Sonoma—one of the valley’s largest funders—will award a record $365,000 in grants to valley-serving nonprofits. That amount will raise the group’s cumulative grant total... Continue