More than a hundred people gathered under gray skies behind the Temple Masonic Lodge on Broadway Tuesday morning to celebrate the 90th anniversary of Veterans Day with songs, speeches and a precision rifle drill. The city’s annual ceremony is usually held at the Sonoma Valley... Continue
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Bolstered by the successful bond measure and a positive first quarter, the Sonoma Valley Health Care District board reported good news on several fronts at its meeting Wednesday evening. Board chair Dick Kirk opened the meeting with a report on the hospital’s Joint Powers Agreement... Continue
Raquel Arroyo is a trained Le Cordon Bleu chef who is now developing new lunch choices for Il Pasticciere Fiorini. Photo by Ryan Lely. Five years after Grazia Bianchi and baker son-in-law Massimo Fiorini opened Il Pasticciere Fiorini on West Napa Street, they have brought... Continue
Vintage Wine Tours of Sonoma receives safety award Lancer Insurance Company has awarded Vintage Wine Tours of Sonoma its prestigious Gold Safety Award. The award recognizes the safety excellence of Vintage Wine Tours of Sonoma for the 2007 policy year. Lancer, a provider of liability... Continue
The Valley of the Moon Water District board has named veteran water and public-works man Al Bandur to fill the seat vacated by Sanford Smith, who resigned earlier this year because of illness. Bandur, with 27 years of water-related service – both above and below... Continue
Homeowners and firefighters can breathe now – the 2008 fire season, during which more than a million acres of California wildland went up in smoke, is officially over. That’s the word from the Sonoma-Lake-Napa Unit of the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CAL... Continue
With candles and song, nearly 200 people last night sought to bring light to the dark place in Boyes Hot Springs where a woman was raped last week. “Feel how powerful our collective voice is ... in changing this place where so much pain has... Continue
The Sonoma Valley Museum of Art board of directors announced today that Executive Director Lia Transue will be leaving her post effective January 8, 2009. Transue has led the museum as executive director for eight years and is now, according to the board’s statement, ready... Continue
Five cars were damaged in an overnight rampage last week that roused dogs but not residents of an east Sonoma neighborhood. A deputy responded Sunday morning, Nov. 2, to the 800 block of Oak Lane, where – sometime between 11 p.m. Saturday and 1 a.m.... Continue
Sonoma County voters broke their own all-time participation record on Nov. 4 – but all that electoral enthusiasm means it’ll take a while to find out who won. “We have to credit vote-by-mail with a certain amount of this,” county Registrar of Voters Janice Atkinson... Continue