Looking west from Lyon Street, a strip of new sidewalk and gutters takes form along the 19300 block of Sonoma Highway. The improvement is part of the land deal that allowed construction of Valley Oak Homes, a 43-unit affordable rental project on 2.07 acres off... Continue

One of the items on the Boys & Girls Club scavenger hunt list? Get a policeman to eat a donut. Sgt. Spencer Crum gamely played along, as did other officers who accommodated teams’ requests to be handcuffed (though not on the list, requests to be... Continue

A passenger train winds into view at Sonoma Raceway on Sunday, riding rails that in some stretches hadn’t carried a passenger train in nearly 50 years. While NASACR drivers were gearing up for Sunday’s Toyota/Save Mart 350 (won by Martin Truex Jr.), the special train,... Continue

A 15-year-old girl told police she pulled out off the grasp of a would-be kidnaper Saturday evening, one of four men who confronted her near Taco Bell on Hwy 12 and Verano Avenue. The teen was walking home from Maxwell Park at about 6 p.m.... Continue

Impact100 Sonoma awarded a $100,000 grant to the Sonoma Valley Education Foundation to fund “Smart Start: Preschool for All in Sonoma Valley,” a program that wil support 48 at-risk children. Ten other nonprofits were awarded a total of $128,000 during Sunday’s fourth annual reception event.... Continue

What’s a bag man without his bag? Ned Forrest, local architect and supporter of the Hotel Limitation Initiative, found a canvas bag hanging on his front yard fence. Inside: 17” color door-knob hangers in support of Protect Sonoma, the group opposed to the initiative not... Continue

Kristin gets it all together. Continue

Sonoma Raceway’s Diana Brennan and Steve Page honor the track’s late marketing executive, John Cardinale, during kick-off activities for this weekend’s Toyota/SaveMart 350. The track’s media center was renamed the “John Cardinale Media Center” in a ceremony today. Cardinale was inducted into the track’s Wall... Continue

A weekend of racing and car-gazing culminates in Sunday’s NASCAR main event, the Toyota/Save Mart 350, one of the most exciting races on the circuit with plenty of paint-swapping and bumper-bumping on the 10-turn, 1.99-mile road course. Driving legend Darrell Waltrip, will be the Grand... Continue