Sonoma Valley High School 2010 graduate, Bobby Schimm received the prestigious NACo Presidential Scholarship recently awarded by the National Association of Counties, a national organization representing over 3000 counties nationwide. Schimm was selected by Sonoma County 1st District Supervisor, Valerie Brown, as one of only... Continue
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Amber Marie True and Michael Vincent Gutierrez each pled guilty Thursday to three felony counts in the December break-in and ransacking of a Sonoma emptied by tragedy. John and Susan Maloney and their two children were killed in a traffic collision on November 28, 2009.... Continue
Dear Dr. Forsythe: I am writing to ask your advice on how to handle a situation that has erupted with my daughter recently regarding her future. My 18 year old daughter has been studying at Santa Rosa Junior College with plans to transfer to UC... Continue
They run for lost mothers and daughters, fathers and sons. They run for family and friends gone too soon. They run, or jog or walk, together, with pride and strength. Others move along alone, silent with memory. Some by day, some by night, all with... Continue
With the financial backing of Ellie Phipps Price, owner of Sand Hill Durrell Vineyards, activists recently bid $31,415 at a state-sanctioned auction in Nevada to keep 172 wild horses from going to the slaughterhouse. “It’s my passion is to save these horses,” Price said. “It’s... Continue
The union representing 667 state-employed workers at the Sonoma Devlopmental Center has voted to accept a new labor contract agreement with the Schwarzenegger administration. Statewide, 96 percent of the membership of the California Association of Psychiatric Technicians approved a deal that offers members protection from... Continue
Days after repairing a sewage leak on Sonoma Creek in Glen Ellen, the Sonoma County Water Agency received more noxious news – a state fine of $348,400. The ruling, which was issued before the Madrone Road Bridge spill, charges the local agency with 37 sewer... Continue
The life of a man having a heart attack at a wedding party was saved Saturday night when another guest, a nurse, used an Automated External Defibrillator on the 59-year-old man. The event took place at Vintage House, one of several locations provided with an... Continue
The Sonoma Valley Hospital Foundation has announced the election of Ron Franklin to its Board of Directors. After a career at the Sonoma Developmental Center, which began in 1962, Franklin has devoted countless volunteer hours to state and local commissions such as the Sonoma County... Continue
Psychiatric patients at Napa State Hospital would come to Sonoma Valley Hospital for acute care under a contract that would increase revenue at the Sonoma facility by 10 percent. The pact, which replaces in part Napa State’s long-standing deal with Queen of the Valley Hospital,... Continue