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Sonoma’s Community Café opened this week at 875 West Napa, the former home of Mondo. Serving breakfast and lunch from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m., the new restaurant offers home-style wine country cuisine with a pledge to use the freshest ingredients including organics where possible... Continue

High school art students bring children’s portraits to life

In our career-driven world, art is often disregarded as a trivial practice, but as 25 Sonoma Valley High School artists and 25 orphans in India know, art can be life-changing. “It’s hard to say who got the most enjoyment out of this project, the kids... Continue

Dunbar students participate in annual bird count

[caption id="attachment_23510" align="alignnone" width="420" caption="Jaymee Pearce checks out a sharp-shinned hawk through a spotting scope during Dunbar’s fifth annual Great Backyard Bird Count. Fellow third-graders Azure Oldani and Karina Robles-Sanchez wait their turn."][/caption] Students at Dunbar Elementary School in Glen Ellen participated in the “Great... Continue

Sister City celebration

To celebrate Sonoma’s newest Sister Cities relationship, Ambassador Gao Zhanseng, Consul General of The Peoples Republic of China in San Francisco, paid an official visit Monday. Included in the large local contingent greeting Chinese diplomats were Sonoma Mayor Laurie Gallian, Councilmember Tom Rouse and Bill... Continue

New bike rack sculpture installed in Plaza

The cool new sculpture adjacent to the Plaza horseshoe is, in fact, a custom-designed bicycle rack commissioned by the City of Sonoma Cultural and Fine Arts Commission and created by local artist Bryan Tedrick. The sculpture bicycle rack is a result of the City’s combined... Continue

New bike rack sculpture installed in Plaza

Chinese wines surprise industry experts

Wine industry aficionados from Napa and Sonoma gathered at Hurley’s Restaurant in Yountville recently to sample a selection of wines from China and were pleasantly surprised by the quality of the wines. Of the five sampled, only one – a Syrah, was a clear... Continue

Chinese wines surprise industry experts

Rallying support

A smiling Yannick Phillips stands amid a crowd of protestors positioned at the top of Broadway on Saturday. The Sonoma rally, in solidarity with teachers, nurses, firefighters, students, police officers and others protesting in Wisconsin, is part of a national effort calling itself “Save the... Continue

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