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Girlfriends Getaway month wraps up with Leslie Sbrocco

El Dorado Corner Café, in conjunction with Thirsty Girl and the Sonoma Valley Girlfriends Getaway month, will be hosting a special wine on tap tasting and networking event led by local wine expert and founder of Thirsty Girl LLC, Leslie Sbrocco. The event will be... Continue

Teen takes Creative Arts Award

Sonoma’s Cultural and Fine Arts Commission (CFAC) has awarded its 2011 Creative Arts Award to 17-year-old musician, songwriter and artist Sarah Summers. “Music provides me a way to connect with people,” Summers said in her application, “be it the children at Rhoten summer camps through... Continue

Cornerstone’s Blue Tree comes down

A small melancholy group gathered under rainy skies on Friday as Cornerstone’s iconic Blue Tree was cut down. Cornerstone’s Teresa Raffo addressed the onlookers saying that the gardens are a laboratory of sorts and that the Blue Tree, created by Canadian landscape designer and architect... Continue

Fresh from the oven

Buy the bowl and the chili is free at the third annual “Chili Bowl Express,” Friday, March 25 at the Sonoma Community Center. Forrest Lesch-Middelton, director of the center’s ceramics program, oversaw the creation of 160 unique bowls for the 5 p.m. dinner. After choosing... Continue

Impact100 grant in action

On March 24 from 5 to 6:30 p.m., Impact100 Sonoma will hold a presentation for members and friends to hear an update of the College Bound program the group funded last year at the Boys & Girls Clubs of Sonoma Valley.  The College Bound program... Continue

Impact100 grant in action

On March 24 from 5 to 6:30 p.m., Impact100 Sonoma will hold a presentation for members and friends to hear an update of the College Bound program the group funded last year at the Boys & Girls Clubs of Sonoma Valley.  The College Bound program... Continue

Girl Scouts shoot for the sky with 100-year tree project

[caption id="attachment_24071" align="alignnone" width="420" caption="Girl Scouts Aundrea Mallory (left) and Alicia Garstecki (right) plant a tree with Sonoma Garden Park Manger Rebecca Bozelli"][/caption] Juliette Gordon Low would be proud. The Girl Scouts of America are celebrating 100 years this year and Sonoma scouts are joining... Continue

Girl Scouts shoot for the sky with 100-year tree project

[caption id="attachment_24071" align="alignnone" width="420" caption="Girl Scouts Aundrea Mallory (left) and Alicia Garstecki (right) plant a tree with Sonoma Garden Park Manger Rebecca Bozelli"][/caption] Juliette Gordon Low would be proud. The Girl Scouts of America are celebrating 100 years this year and Sonoma scouts are joining... Continue

What’s that bright circle thingy?

A shining circular object that experts call “the sun” has risen in the eastern sky. It should, however, disappear later today, to be replaced by the usual rainstorm which is predicted to taper off late Saturday. The “sun” will likely return, for lengthier periods at... Continue

Hooked on theater

Falling under the spell of Neverland are Emma Cooper, Dominic Spingola and Summer Atwood, Presentation School students starring in the campus production of “Peter Pan the Musical.” Shows are Thursday, March 24 at 6 p.m. and Friday the 25th at 7 p.m. Directed by first... Continue