[caption id="attachment_25621" align="alignnone" width="420" caption="Tom Rusert (second from left) is shown working with Defenders of Wildlife volunteers on a new Burrowing Owl habitat last month in the Valley. This is the first in a series of new artificial habitats being installed by Sonoma Birding in... Continue

Sonoma Valley Girl Scouts, from left, Katie Lacy, Caitlyn Hill, Taylor Curtis and Taylor Goss make fleece tie blankets for Project Linus, a nation-wide charity that provides handcrafted blankets to children in crisis. Proceeds from Girl Scout cookie sales funded the project, a joint effort... Continue

A Sonoma woman died Monday when the car she was driving plowed through a guardrail and into Sonoma Creek. Carolyn Dusharme, 81, was pronounced dead on the scene in a field near Fifth Street West and Leveroni. She was likely unconscious or suffering a medical... Continue

Temporarily displaced by the repaving of its Arnold Field parking lot location, the Friday Farmers Market will relocate for three weeks to the parking lot north of Teeter baseball field on First Street East. The market will operate in the new space on July 8,... Continue

Saturday, July 16 The Courtney Janes Guitar and mandolin due of Dennis Haneda and Ben Hulan 1 p.m. Hopmonk Tavern. 935.9100. Elias Negash Negash, on keyboards, combines his native Ethiopian music with a sturdy jazz education. Children and picnics welcome for the free, casual concert.... Continue

The Sonoma League for Historic Preservation has unveiled a new logo featuring an element of the Plaza’s distinctive Duhring Building, a historic building of great meaning to the city and the organization itself. In what members called the league’s “defining, signature moment,” the group led... Continue

Nigel Armstrong of Sonoma was the highest placed American at the 14th International Tchaikovsky Competition, taking fourth in the violin division in St. Petersburg Russia. “I'm truly honored and thankful to have made it into this level of the competition,” the 21-year-old said. The quadrennial... Continue