Sisters make jewelry company shine

[caption id="attachment_33477" align="alignnone" width="420" caption="The jewelry designs of Seana Pedelaborde are inspired by pop culture, the natural world and fashion history."][/caption] Seana Pedelaborde and her sister Tara Brown have brought their Amano Studio jewelry company to downtown Sonoma. The wholesale operation designs and creates vintage-inspired... Continue

Sonoma city manager headed to Windsor

Sonoma City Manager Linda Kelly has resigned in favor of the same post for Windsor, a job she'll start December 13. The Sonoma City Council will meet in closed session on November 14 to discuss the process to replace Kelly, who took the Sonoma post... Continue

Bramfitt named interim GM for water district

Mark Bramfitt, who resigned from the agency board last month to pursue the top operations post, has been named the new interim general manager of the Valley of the Moon Water District. Bramfitt resigned from the board when outgoing GM Krishna Kumar announced his departure... Continue

Email to the editor: It was just an election

Editor: Candidates who bragged ad nauseam that they were business people who “know how to get things done,” clearly didn't. With gobs of “investment capital” stuffed in their pockets by special interests, they couldn't even manage the temporary business of winning an election. But voters... Continue

Parolee arrested for armed robbery

Joseph Kauth, 22, of Sonoma was arrested Tuesday for allegedly robbing a woman at gunpoint in a shopping center parking lot. The victim told police that Kauth, an acquaintance of hers, had picked her up at the Sonoma Market Shopping Center at about 5 p.m.... Continue

Cook and Gallian take Council; Gorin in as Supe

In a tight race of three candidates separated by just 201 votes, David Cook and Laurie Gallian were elected to four-year terms on the Sonoma City Council in Tuesday’s election. Cook, who owns a vineyard management company, finished first among the four candidates with 30.3... Continue

Ed Foundation adds board members

The Sonoma Valley Education Foundation has welcomed three new members to its Board of Directors: Molly Fedorchak, Camerino Hawing and Vanessa Rognlien. They join Jean Barnier, Will Deeths, Jan Davis, Jette Franks, Debra Garber, Michael George, Kevin Jaggie, Anne Kuschner, Susan Reber, and Charles Young.... Continue

Art as activism: Siqueiros

David Alfaro Siqueiros, the Mexican artist, revolutionary and political agitator who died in 1974 after a prolific career that merged art and activism, is the subject of a November 8 lecture at the Sonoma Community Center. History professor and Siqueiros scholar Dr. Tony White will... Continue

Ballot box rush hour

“Business is brisk,” reports polling place inspector Bill Boerum, with clerk Mary Coulombre during a busy election morning at the Veterans Building. The volunteer crew had processed 150 voters by 9 a.m., a turnout members said was far above the same period of the last... Continue

At ease

The annual Dance for the Troops, Saturday night, November 3, adds Vietnam-era tunes to a playlist of big band sounds with The Moonlighters Swing Band. Presented the American Legion Jack London Post #489, the event funds packages for the American heroes serving overseas. Food, bar,... Continue

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