Gabrielle Brown is the owner of a new 2013 Fiat, compliments of Laura Zimmerman and the Sonoma Education Foundation. The car was the grand prize in the Red & White Ball raffle. A Sonoma resident for 25 years, Brown is the owner of Sonoma Serenity... Continue

The Sonoma Valley Mentoring Alliance has added Bob Kenney, David Parr and Elizabeth Nuss to its board of directors. Kenney, a Sonoma resident for several years, and operates a marketing and public relations firm, Context Marketing, based in Sonoma. He has helped companies and organizations... Continue

Fade to black and roll the credits – or at least find the remote and change the batteries – Sonoma’s Blockbuster video store is closed. It was a big box store of sorts when it opened in Sonoma, part of a corporate chain that at... Continue

Mate Kerekes, raised in the shadow of Tokaj Mountain in the northeast corner of Hungary, is now rolling barrels around a wine cave deep within the Mayacamas. He is a winery intern at Buena Vista Winery, which was founded by the Hungarian-born Agoston Haraszthy in... Continue

With all her volunteering, tutoring work and pro bono teaching, Melissa Siemer’s schedule is busy enough without having to worry about her 20-year-old clunker breaking down. In recognition of her dedication to community service, Dino DiGuilio, hands over the keys to a gleaming reconditioned car... Continue

As Sonoma Valley Hospital nears its grand November re-opening, the funding gap to pay for the project continues to narrow. The capital campaign has to-date raised $8.9 million toward the $11 million needed to complete expansion of the new hospital and state-of-the-art Emergency Care Center... Continue