Update: Bill Dodd running for state senate

[caption id="attachment_54853" align="alignleft" width="230"] Bill Dodd at the 2015 Sonoma 4th of July Parade (Sarah Stierch, CC BY 4.0)[/caption] State Assemblyman Bill Dodd, elected in November to represent the Springs as part of the 4th District, has announced his candidacy for the State Senate in... Continue

Expanded coverage: Sonoma moves toward blower ban

The Sonoma City Council on Monday voted 3-2 to direct staff to draft regulations banning gas leaf blowers within city limits. Councilmembers Rachel Hundley, Laurie Gallian and Madolyn Agrimonti voted for restrictions, to include prohibiting electric leaf blowers in residential neighborhoods. Gary Edwards and Mayor... Continue

Last call for ‘Women’

“Jake’s Women,” the Neil Simon play directed locally by Joey Hoeber, rides some serious buzz into its final weekend in Andrews Hall. Cameron Stuckey plays the lead, a writer with a struggling marriage and propensity to converse with the women in his life, both real... Continue

TrainTown opens new roller coaster

[caption id="attachment_54924" align="aligncenter" width="420"] The new kiddie coaster at TrainTown[/caption] A long awaited new roller coaster - Mine Train - has finally opened at Sonoma's beloved TrainTown Railroad. It replaces the old Dragon Train coaster. The coaster was built by the legendary E&F Miler Industries,... Continue

Seeing water waste? Report it!

[caption id="attachment_54901" align="aligncenter" width="420"] Don't waste that water Sonoma Valley - we're watching you! (Thangaraj Kumaravel, CC BY 2.0)[/caption] Amidst the worst drought in California history, many locals have been at a loss on how to report water wasters. The Sonoma-Marin Saving Water Partnership has... Continue

On the madness of it all

Once in its grip, the system tries to break them. Half-broken black men, hip-to-it brown men, not buying it Asians and rebellious usually stupid white ones. And the system knows how to break them, break them further. So when they get out of it, if... Continue

Photo essay: Vallejo & pals return to Buena Vista

This past weekend, Buena Vista Winery was host to some of the biggest names in American history - General Vallejo, Leland Stanford, Abraham Lincoln, and of course, Count Agoston Haraszthy, the founder of Buena Vista and the father of the California wine industry. I've always... Continue

Thompson slams water bill

U.S. Rep. Mike Thompson (CA-5) today voted against the House Majority’s California water bill, calling it “bad for California, bad for other states, and bad for our environment.” "The legislation would jeopardize jobs in and north of the Delta, undermine existing state law, and override... Continue

LGBTQI in Sonoma Valley? Take this survey!

[caption id="attachment_54095" align="aligncenter" width="420"] The Sonoma County LGBTQI Task Force wants to hear from you! (Sarah Stierch, CC BY 4.0)[/caption] Are you Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Questioning and/or Intersex and living in Sonoma Valley? If so, the Sonoma County LGBTQI Task Force wants you... Continue

SDC hearing is Saturday in Sonoma

The Department of Developmental Services will hold a public meeting on the transformation of Sonoma Developmental Center on Saturday, July 18, from 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. at Sonoma Valley High School. The hearing is one of the steps required by Senate Bill 82, signed by the governor... Continue

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