It’s not just the bees that are a-buzzin’ in Craig Scarborough’s backyard vineyard in Glen Ellen these days. Craig’s skill saw is also buzzing as it cuts 30 donated wine barrels into the 60 half-barrel planters for The Great Sunflower Project, a bee-related project sponsored... Continue

Tony Fucile would prefer to fly under the radar.  He lives with his family – wife Stacey, children Eli, 10, and Elinor, 8 – on a hill high above Sonoma in a house under renovation with spotty cell service and almost nonexistent Internet access.  No... Continue

Tuesday Night Farmers’ Market Manager Chris Welch and Market Board Chair Bill Dardon step up recycling efforts at the weekly event with new cans, color-coded to capture more compost, recyclables and trash. With the market responsible for all event clean up, Dardon designed the new... Continue

[caption id="attachment_32031" align="alignnone" width="420" caption="Lodge Administrator Bill Bragg, lounging in the club’s new bar area, has the Moose moving in a new direction. "][/caption] The Moose is on the move. It’s a social club that’s rebuilding its Broadway facility while building awareness to attract new,... Continue

Sonoma’s Moose Lodge ups its ante in the local music game on July 13 with the first in a series of dinner shows with live bands. The Hardly Strictly Mash-up Boys, a bluegrass quartet with well- known Sonoma guitarist David Thom on mandolin, plays the... Continue

Fitting of the improbable task of keeping Jack London State Park open to the public, the Transcendence Theatre Company opens its summer season this weekend with the musical revue “Dream The Impossible Dream.” The show opens the “Broadway Under the Stars” series with performances July... Continue

Proposed for First Street West, a half-block from Sonoma Plaza: a 59-room hotel and event facility with a gym, two restaurants and retail space. To make way for the 1.5-acre project, down would come the Chateau Sonoma and Index-Tribune buildings. Clearing the space is the... Continue