Student artist award – City of Sonoma seeks entries for the 2023 Student Creative Artist Award. The annual honor is open to high school juniors and seniors who demonstrate promise in visual, literary or performing arts. Online entries due April 13. Winners are awarded... Continue

By Lisa Storment -- This story begins 20 years after arriving in Sonoma Valley in 1996, and after “coming out” as the true me. I was then suddenly aware that I had become a lesser person in the eyes of the far-right judge and jury.... Continue

Prime Cinemas Sonoma, the nine-screen multiplex movie theatre in Fiesta Plaza, will close permanently on April 1, its owners announced today. Brian and Katherine Young re-opened took over the closed business in the Spring of 2021, but could not make a go of it in... Continue

Last year, California enacted a law designed to reduce the generation of short-lived climate pollutants. The target – halting the landfilling of organics.  When it comes to composting, Sonoma has it all sorted out. Between 2021 and 2022, the amount of organics diverted from disposal increased... Continue

George Webber | Sonoma Stories -- Perhaps the most pleasant aspect of being forced to “Stay-At-Home'' during the pandemic was all that extra time in the kitchen. Many of us were already enthusiastic home chefs, and some of us turned into raving culinary lunatics when... Continue

By Anna Pier | Sonoma Sun -- At a packed-house marathon meeting March 9, the Sonoma Valley Unified School District board voted 3-2 against a proposal to close Dunbar School for the year 2023-24. The item emerged from a larger proposal by Trustee John Kelly... Continue

The Jack-to-Jack Yacht Race returns to the open waters of Sonoma Creek on March 25 when dozens of miniature boats set sail for a 50-yard sprint to the Glen Ellen Bridge. The boats, all 18" of them, will launch from the Jack London Yacht Club... Continue

The Board of Supervisors this week approved Sonoma County’s first Winery Events Ordinance, establishing standards for winery events such as parking requirements, food service, traffic management and noise standards. The board said that the ordinance, some eight years in development, brings consistency to the use... Continue