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Sonoma fall sports season begins today

While classes at Sonoma Valley High School start on Wednesday, the Dragon student-athletes officially begin the fall sports season today, with seven sports getting underway with workouts or tryouts. The football season starts its practice schedule this afternoon, as longtime coaches Mick O'Meara and Mike... Continue

Sonoma’s only NFL player to face 49ers this weekend

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"First Bell" rings in Sonoma's new school year

New faces, fresh enthusiasm and a sharing of an exotic tradition marked the start of the new school year Monday night at the meeting of the Sonoma Valley Unified School District Board of Trustees. To launch the meeting, the district's new superintendent, Dr. Pam Martens,... Continue

Hospital board agrees to seek new bond

It's final. In a 5-0 vote, the Sonoma Valley Hospital board on Aug. 6 decided to seek a $35 million, 20-year general obligation bond in the Nov. 4 election for current site infrastructure upgrades only. Unlike the prior, failed measure F, this bond will buy... Continue

Firefighters save dogs

Three people, six birds and a pair of dogs are safe following a fire Friday morning at the Sonoma Commons townhouse complex on West Spain Street. “Looks like the fire was confined to the dryer and a little bit of the laundry room,” John Franceschi,... Continue

News Briefs

Sonoma paving begins, again Problems have delayed one Sonoma roadwork project – but another is posing fewer problems than expected. City Hall’s horseshoe repaving is moving so quickly that Aug. 19’s Tuesday Night Farmers Market can be held in its traditional location, Sonoma City Clerk... Continue

Third candidate possible for council race

Whether or not Sonoma will hold a City Council election Nov. 4 depends on the person who pulled nomination papers at 9 a.m. Tuesday. Hospitality consultant and La Luz boardmember Alain Piallat had not yet filed the completed forms with the City Clerk’s office by... Continue

Wiggins e-mail list cracked

When politicians ask for money, they don’t usually misspell their own names. But the person who hacked into a private e-mail list last week for supporters of state Sen. Pat Wiggins, whose 2nd District includes Sonoma and the North Coast, apparently didn’t know that. The... Continue

Supes okay funding contracts for LBAM exclusion program

To keep the Light Brown Apple Moth (LBAM) from taking a bite out of the Valley's agriculture, the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors, at its August 5 meeting,  authorized contracts with the state totaling $201,921.84 to continue its LBAM exclusion program. The LBAM, according to... Continue

Green Music Festival debuts

The maiden voyage of the Sonoma Valley Green Music Festival, held Saturday, Aug. 9 at Depot Park, went off without a hitch – and with a good time had by the thousands that attended during the course of the day. The event, a benefit for... Continue