Women’s conference turns to the teens

For founders Anne Marie Sebastiani, Piper Abodeely and Michelle Dale the G3 Women’s Conference has become somewhat of a self-fulfilling prophecy. With their collective backgrounds in training, coaching, leadership, business development and healthy living, the three acquaintances – now fast friends – envisioned a conference... Continue

Safe passage for Valley’s wild animals

[caption id="attachment_56947" align="aligncenter" width="406"] A motion-detector camera shows a bobcat crossing under Highway 12 near Glen Ellen.[/caption] Cameras placed underneath bridges within the Sonoma Valley Wildlife Corridor over the past year have captured foxes, opossum, raccoons, deer, mountain lions – “everything we expected to see... Continue

Development update, cookbooks and winning Ringo

As far as the big Sonoma development projects go, the ones we've been hearing about for years, i.e. the Anderson Hotel and Broadway/MacArthur, there aren’t any major developments to report. The hotel proposed for the 100 block of West Napa Street has been scaled down... Continue

Filling station’s new product: recycled water

Come and get it – free water for thirsty lawns, gardens and landscaping. The Sonoma Valley County Sanitation District has opened a filling station for local residents to collect up to 300 gallons of recycled water at a time at the new facility, located at... Continue

Beyond the bubble: Smarter Balanced school testing

Exclusive to the Sun by Louann Carlomagno, Sonoma Valley Unified School District Superintendent Last spring, school districts across the state administered the new Smarter Balanced tests to students in grades 3-8 and grade 11. This test replaced the CST or California Standards Tests that have... Continue

The power of small donations

Last week a friend asked me this simple, yet poignant question, "Do you really think my little $100 donation that I give to each of a few Sonoma Valley nonprofits really makes that much of a difference? I hear all the time that big donors... Continue

Embedded burners

Donovan and Jennifer Martini at this year’s Burning Man with the ‘Art Car’ they built in Sonoma, piloted to the Black Rock Desert and assembled as the hub of their 120-member camp group. At last year’s event, when one of their fellow burners learned of... Continue

Where in Sonoma Valley?

Where was this photo taken? Find out in Thursday's issue of the Sonoma Valley Sun. Want the convenience of home delivery, for only $30 a year? Call us at 707.933.0101. Continue

Strategy and tactics in the living wage campaign

Opinion by Ben Boyce The Sonoma County chapter of Jobs with Justice, which was the organizational successor to the Living Wage Coalition, has been waging a protracted siege on the Board of Supervisors to pass a Living Wage Ordinance for all workers employed by the... Continue

Open letter to political candidate Trump and those who think like him

First, trolling bait to the anti-brown immigrants crowd, by calling Mexicans “sent here by their government,” “rapists,” and “bringing drugs and crime,” he then stirred in xenophobic fears and racial bias aimed at the Chinese government with factually dumb and just plain wrong rhetoric geared... Continue

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