The Office of California State Controller John Chiang will host a Small Business Tax & Regional Opportunities Seminar in Sonoma County on July 20 from 9 a.m. to noon. The event is free and open to the public. Attendees will learn how to: take advantage... Continue
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The Sonoma Valley Economic Development Partnership has teamed with the Small Business Development Center to bring their “So You Want to Start a Business” workshop series to Sonoma Valley. This workshop provides small business start-up information to people who have developed a business concept or... Continue
A proposal to find new funding for a campaign promoting Sonoma tourism failed to win over the Sonoma City Council last week. The idea is to raise the Transient Occupancy Tax, or room tax, from the current 10 percent rate to 12 percent. The resulting... Continue
Work on the school district’s solar installations is going great guns. The rows of ground mounts at the district office are nearing completion and will power both the D.O. and Altimira Middle School. Shade structures are also underway at Valley elementary schools. One of the... Continue
Everything is coming up green for Sonoma Mayor Laurie Gallian, master gardener Jean Hopeman and Assemblymember Jared Huffman at “Sustainability Day.” The day of hands-on workshops and expert panel discussions drew more than 200 to Sonoma Garden Park. Topics included water conservation, rainwater harvesting, native... Continue
Dear Dr. Forsythe: Last week my daughters decided to trim the hair on our dog. By the time they were done, he had a reverse mohawk, a very strange color of nail polish and sunglasses on. They also dressed him up real good. They did... Continue
Word is that the prominent lot at Broadway and MacArthur, longtime home of Sonoma Truck and Auto, is already sold. That didn’t take long, even if the cost dropped a bit from the original sticker price of $2.35 million. The intended buyer, Village Properties, has... Continue
A transsexual mad scientist, a naïve (but willing to learn) couple trapped in his evil lair, crazed henchmen, a zombie biker, a revived corpse and lots of singing and dancing. “The Rocky Horror Show” is the musical that has bit of everything, including a few... Continue
Be there with bells on, preferably corduroy, for the 6th annual Bell Bottom Bash, a night of retro fashions and groovy tunes on Saturday night, July 9 at the Sonoma Veterans Building. Period threads encouraged (finally, your Granny Glasses are for effect, not reading the... Continue
Saturday, July 9 Chi McClean Southern and roots rock. 1 to 4 p.m. Landmark Vineyards. 833.0226. Blue & Lonesome The pub’s Mostly Simply Bluegrass series continues with traditional takes on the genre from Ed Neff on mandolin, Larry Cohea on banjo, Paul Shelasky on fiddle,... Continue