When it comes to housing, everyone imagines the growth of the valley differently. Some people want small homes on big lots, others advocate more live-work housing or mixed-use projects with stores downstairs and apartments upstairs. Now is your chance to give your opinion on how... Continue
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While it’s premature to predict this year’s grape yields, recent rains certainly are more encouraging than the Valley’s earlier near-drought conditions. Whether the rainfall will be enough to get the vineyards through the long, hot months of summer is anyone’s guess. Ned Hill, owner of... Continue
At a special meeting held at Altimira Middle School on Tuesday night, the Board of Trustees of the Sonoma Valley Unified School District heard a presentation by Assistant Superintendent Justin Frese on the local district’s $37 million budget and how it is impacted by the... Continue
Sonoma Mayor Ken Brown and City Manager Linda Kelly attended the California Constitutional Convention Summit, sponsored by the Bay Area Council and held on Tuesday in Sacramento. The heart of the summit was discussing the state’s unwieldy constitution and the process of going about fixing... Continue
Dear Dr. Forsythe: I was in a pet shop the other day and overheard a customer chatting about her two puggles that she had—a brother and a sister. She actually said that she wasn’t going to get them fixed because they wouldn’t mate—they were siblings!!... Continue
David Hill took the reins this week as the new chief of operations for Sonoma Valley Hospital. He comes to Sonoma from Corcoran, where he was involved in the planning and design of the new hospital facility while serving for two years as CEO of... Continue
The Sonoma Jazz + Festival announced headliners for the May concert ranging from the swinging to the soulful to the smooth, if not necessarily jazzy. The festivities will kick off on Thursday, May 21, with a dance party featuring Big Bad Voodoo Daddy. Friday will... Continue
The skilled nursing facility at Sonoma Valley Hospital has not admitted any new patients since Tuesday due to an outbreak of viral gastroenteritis. The hospital saw nine cases of the gastroenteritis last week and another four or five this week. “When it’s in the community,... Continue
Sonoma County Board of Supervisors Tues., Feb. 24 8:30 a.m. Supervisor’s Chambers, 575 Administration Drive, Room 102A, Santa Rosa The supervisors will consider an appeal of a Planning Commission decision to deny the use of an infiltration gallery as an alternative water source at 500... Continue
Winemakers and animal-lovers breathed a sigh of relief on Thursday with the passage of the California state budget. The budget isn’t pretty, with hikes in sales tax, vehicle fees and more, but it doesn’t include two proposed taxes that locals had been watching closely. One... Continue