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Cops nab serial burglary suspect

A man being arrested for two unrelated warrants was found with a stash of collectable coins, passports, and social security cards belonging to victims of recent Sonoma Valley burglaries. Harley Adkins, 28, was found late Thursday night sitting in a “suspicious occupied vehicle” in the... Continue

Broadway group returns to Jack London Park

Broadway Under the Stars, the Jack London State Park concert series that recently won the Broadway World San Francisco Award for Best Special Theater Event, will return for a second season June 28 through August 31. Produced by Transcendence Theatre Company, the inaugural 2012 season... Continue

Don’t give up on roses

(Karen Boness) There are legions of passionate rose lovers around the globe. They travel far and wide to admire rose gardens, salivate over rose books, and fill every nook and cranny of their garden with these visually delicious garden gems. But in some crowds roses... Continue

Rolling in it

A photograph of a Cuban cigar factory is among the works in “Revolutionary Island: Tales of Cuban History and Culture, The Sarah & Darius Anderson Collection,” the exhibition currently at the Sonoma Valley Museum of Art. “A culture is expressed through its art,” said Kate... Continue

Chilling images

“National Geographic” photographer James Balag used an array of time-lapse cameras placed across the Arctic to document the world’s changing glaciers. The result, at once breathtaking, astonishing and disturbing, is “Chasing Ice,” in which years pass in seconds and great mountains of ice crumble in... Continue

Tear down the Maysonnave Cottage

When Henri Maysonnave died in 1989, his aged 1910 farmhouse on First Street West was donated to the City of Sonoma with the provision that it be used for art, cultural or museum purposes. Now, five years after the Sonoma League for Historic Preservation beautifully... Continue

Felix or Oscar?

Dear Dr. Forsythe: My daughter Sarah and I have been going back and forth about this for several weeks.  Which is better, to get a new puppy while our older dog is still alive so he can socialize her? Or wait until “JimBob” passes away... Continue

Nutrition myths 101

Greetings, Sonoma. Are you ready for some mind blowing information that will help you along your path to a healthier way of living? Then stick around. I am sharing some of the most common nutrition myths out there because I want you to be able... Continue

Banner day for the environment

A Sonoma contingent including, from left, Ed Clay, Tom Conlon and Tim Boeve march in Sunday’s environmental rally in San Francisco. Transition Sonoma Valley was one of more than 60 Bay Area groups, including Greenpeace and 350.org, protesting the proposed $7 billion Keystone XL pipeline,... Continue

Police report: Thief used dead man’s identity

Blank checks stolen from a residential Sonoma Valley mailbox were used in a scam in which the thief assumed the identity of a man who died last June, according to the Sonoma County Sheriff's Office. Michael Edward Greene Jr., 37, of Santa Rosa, was arrested... Continue