Sonoma Community Center has announced that its traditional annual fundaiser, Ox Roast, will not occur this year. The traditional event on Sonoma Plaza, always scheduled the first Sunday of June, will be on hiatus this year as event planners confer about a potential new format... Continue
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(Georgia Kelly | For The Sun) When does liberty become license? At what point does the free exercise of my rights trample on yours? What is the real meaning of terms like private property, civil society, the commons? These are the questions that a group... Continue
Kristin is in full beach mode. But what to drink? Continue
A group calling itself “Protect Sonoma” has emerged – with a press release and web site, at least – to oppose the Hotel Limitation Measure. It states that Sonoma’s current growth plan is just fine and new projects should be evaluated on a case-by-case basis:... Continue
Sassarini students Yamileth Oros, Gianna Rosseti and Angelica Ross take part in the Purple Pinkie Project, sponsored by Sonoma Valley Rotary, to raise funds for the eradication of polio. By Friday, all three Valley elementary schools will have participated in the drive, which is being... Continue
The Highway 12 improvement project in the Springs will get county funding after all, the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors decided Tuesday after learning how the state will redistribute money from the now-defunct redevelopment agency system. The board had pledged to use that money, tabbed... Continue
Has there ever been a detective as cool as Philip Marlowe, the pulp fiction creation of Raymond Chandler? As quick with a wisecrack as he was with gun, Marlowe worked the lonely streets and seedy alleys of ’30 L.A. “I needed a drink,” runs one... Continue
After debuting on Letterman, comedian Mike E. Winfield has appeared on Showtime's “Comics Without Borders,” Comedy Central's “Live at Gotham” and won a reoccurring role on NBC's “The Office.” And by the way, he hates it when people say they don't remember the beginning of... Continue
The Valley of the Moon Petanque Club, a 28 year-old organization that has maintained courts off the Sonoma Plaza for 25 years will host the U.S. Petanque Federation’s national men’s, women’s and mixed doubles championships May 17-19. A total of 175 petanque players from around... Continue
(By Jackson Love | Student Reporter) Sonoma may be a small town but there is no shortage of talent in it. Butch Engle, for example, who is familiar to Sonomans for his popular Reader’s Theatre series. But that is only a small part of the... Continue