Sonoma-Petaluma State Historic Park needs volunteer docents. Docents explain the history to park visitors at the Mission, Sonoma Barracks, Toscano Hotel, General Vallejo's Home, and Petaluma Adobe. Docents lead tours on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays. Training is provided. A commitment of three hours a month... Continue
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Friends in Sonoma Helping (FISH), the nonprofit agency that addresses hunger, poverty and homelessness, is looking for volunteers. FISH is in need of telephone dispatchers to work from their home one day per month, food packers and distributors who work from the Food Room located... Continue
Sonoma Valley Hospital announced today it has reached an important milestone, raising funds to match a $2 million challenge grant from the Vadasz family. Combined with other recent community gifts, the hospital has now raised $8.9 million towards the $11 million needed to complete the... Continue
A Sonoma Valley man shot himself Wednesday in a car parked in the Sheriff's Sonoma Valley Substation lot in El Verano. Morris Tabak, 59, died of single gunshot wound, according to a statement from Sonoma Police Chief Bret Sackett. Authorities were notified of a despondent... Continue
Steve Ledson accepts a proclamation from Sonoma Mayor Ken Brown and the City Council recognizing the 10th anniversary of the Ledson Hotel. Ledson was praised for his extraordinary attention to detail in the construction of the hotel, which “was meticulously designed to fit neatly into... Continue
Find a need, and fill it –- but leave a hole in the middle. Congratulations and a golden schmear for Stuart Teitelbaum, who has operated Homegrown Bagels for 35 years. The milestone was noted by the city council, which proclaimed September 1 as “Homegrown Bagel... Continue
Strike up the 40-piece concert band in all its patriotic glory as the mighty U.S. Air Force Band of the Golden West comes to Sonoma for a free outdoor show on Saturday, August 24 at Cline Cellars. Food trucks will gather, picnic blankets will be... Continue
Politically correct? Not so much. Comedian Thai Rivera describes himself as "a comic who happens to be a fag and not a fag comic." As for the homeless, “I can’t stand them. I don't mind saying it because I give homeless people money, so I... Continue
It’s not quite just another night at the local Parisian bar, not when Pablo Picasso and Albert Einstein meet for drinks and dialogue. In the comedic play “Picasso at the Lapin Agile,” written by Steve Martin, the year is 1904 and the young geniuses, on... Continue
Gregory Papadin is the winner of the 2013 essay contest sponsored by Sonoma Valley Repulican Women Federated. The teenager, off to his first year of college at San Diego State, attended Prestwood Elementary, Adele Harrison Middle School, and finally Sonoma Valley High School. “My father... Continue