It’s official: incumbent supervisor Valerie Brown will face challenger Will Pier in November’s runoff for Sonoma County’s First District. The final results, released this afternoon, show Brown with 11,399 votes (44.1 percent) and Pier with 6,005 votes (23.2 percent). The initial June 4 count had... Continue
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Sonoma’s City Council answered one question of fairness at their June 18 meeting and left hanging another. The council voted 4–1, with Councilmember Stanley Cohen dissenting, to dissolve three special assessment districts – City of Sonoma Landscape and Lighting , El Prado and Fryer Creek... Continue
The California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) has announced a whole new approach for controlling the light brown apple moth – two of which have been found in Sonoma, causing CDFA to place a 15-square mile area under quarantine. The new strategy does not... Continue
It’s official: incumbent supervisor Valerie Brown will face challenger Will Pier in November’s runoff for Sonoma County’s First District. The final results, released this afternoon, show Brown with 11,399 votes (44.1 percent) and Pier with 6,005 votes (23.2 percent). The initial June 4 count had... Continue
Commuters from Sonoma and other Bay Area counties will pay an additional dollar or more – depending on the hour – to cross the Golden Gate Bridge when the Golden Gate Highway and Transportation District votes in July on the increases presented at their board... Continue
Ryan lely/Sonoma Valley SunA lawnmower is dusty but unburned after it sparked a fire in a Pueblo Avenue field shortly before 11 a.m. Tuesday. Roofers from a nearby house used a garden hose to prevent the fire from spreading to trees at the property’s rear,... Continue
Since June 3, incumbent First District Supervisor Valerie Brown has been waiting to see who’ll face her in November’s runoff election – and now, she’s waiting to hear whether or not state officials think she broke electoral law. On June 11, supervisorial hopefuls David Reber,... Continue
The 2008 fire season has roared into high gear – and for the second time in three weeks, Sonoma Valley is responding. At 7 p.m. last Wednesday, California’s Office of Emergency Services summoned statewide help to fight a wildfire outside Chico which had burned more... Continue
After five years and numerous revisions, Sonoma’s Planning Commission approved 5–0 Thursday the key parts of a 26-unit development on West MacArthur Street. “This truly is a project … that has been a joint effort,” said Planning Commissioner Tom Anderson, who first saw the project... Continue
Ryan lely/Sonoma Valley Sun Susan Simons with her dogs (l to r) Sammy, Billie and Molly. The dogs are all adoptees from Pets Lifeline.Susan Simons, executive director of Pets Lifeline, resigned on Thursday after 11 years of tireless work on behalf of the needy animals... Continue