The Sonoma Creek Watershed is an area of creeks and tributaries covering some 170 square miles, flanked on the west by the Sonoma Mountain Range and on the east by the Mayacamas Mountains, and extending in the north from Kenwood to San Pablo Bay. It’s... Continue

While pundits try to out-predict each other about the prospects of the close-race candidates, last week 700 Sonoma Valley High School students, in a mock presidential primary election, voted for Barak Obama for president by an overwhelming 48.5 percent of the vote. Hillary Clinton limped... Continue

Last Tuesday, a 45-year-old man living in the 500 block of Joaquin Drive called the Sonoma police to complain about another Sonoma man, 51 years old, who allegedly visited the complainant’s house and threatened bodily harm. Police located the suspect at his own home and... Continue

Sonoma City Planner David Goodison came before the Sonoma Valley Hospital board of directors on Wednesday to outline the process the board and the city will face as they move forward to build a new hospital within city limits or to reconfigure the existing hospital.... Continue

California State Assemblymember Jared Huffman reported that the governor had proposed a “provocative opening solution” to the current budget crisis, cutting expenditures 10 percent across the board, in the process closing 48 state parks and beaches and cutting a half million dollars out of the... Continue

Last week, school administrators halted “a verbal altercation” and “an exchange of looks” between students on school grounds and disbursed the gathering before blows were exchanged. Administrators brought the apparent aggressors inside where a search of a backpack with the number 13 written on the... Continue

Throughout the day last Thursday, teachers, students, parents, administrators, classified staff, community leaders, representatives from non profits, PTA, private citizens (retired, business owners, volunteers, etc.) met with Leadership Associates representatives Larry Aceves and Jim Brown to tell them what they hope for in the new... Continue

Manslaughter sentencing The driver who in June 2006 fatally injured an elderly pedestrian, Annamarie Rose Simmons, 81, in a crosswalk in Sonoma, was sentenced last week to jail and three years of probation, following her no-contest plea in November 2007. Sonoma County Superior Court Judge... Continue

Sonoma Valley Vintners & Growers Alliance (SVVGA) announced the addition of four newly elected board members at their January Alliance Meeting. The newly installed board members include: Michael Muscardini, Muscardini Cellars: A SVVGA member for nine years, Sonoma Valley resident Michael Muscardini together with his... Continue