Kevin O’Neill, of Countrywide. Submitted PhotoBank of America Corporation recently announced its purchase of Countrywide Financial Corporation in an all-stock transaction worth approximately $4 billion. The purchase will make Bank of America the nation’s largest mortgage lender and loan servicer. Kevin O’Neill, a loan consultant... Continue
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Maggie Bafalon of Coldwell Banker De Anza Realty. Photo SubmittedThe film and video division of Three House MultiMedia, FilmArt3, recently learned client Maggie Bafalon of Coldwell Banker De Anza Realty took top honors in an international video contest with her entry “Home, Sweet Sonoma,” which... Continue
Nora Flood. Photo SubmittedCharter School principal announces July departure Nora Flood, principal of the Sonoma Charter School, will resign at the end of the school year to join her husband and dog in Colorado. The move is not completely unexpected. Her husband had accepted a... Continue
Martini Madness. Photo by Melania Mahoney“Martini Madness,” one of the cornerstones of the three-month juggernaut known as the Olive Festival, was a comparatively staid event this year (meaning: leaner, meaner, tighter and, frankly, classier). On Friday evening, the event was hosted with aplomb by Saddles,... Continue
At 11:58 a.m., police got a call from Sonoma Rentals, on Highway 12, that someone had just shot out the passenger window of an employee’s 1988 black Cadillac Seville. Then as the employee watched, the suspect, driving a white Chevy Tahoe with tinted windows and... Continue
Adele Harrison Students of the Year Photo by Ryan LelyAdele Harrison Middle School Principal Mike Peters with Anthony Lucchesi and Dalia Caballero, Adele Harrison Students of the Year. Continue
Sonoma County Board of Supervisors meeting January 8 • The board certified the completion of the playground equipment for Maxwell Park. • Easements were secured across additional properties for the Highway 12 Corridor Improvements Project. “There were some properties along the Route 12 corridor where... Continue
Ellen Hoover (left) and Bill Laird, resize blueprints for a local project. Ryan lely/Sonoma Valley Sun Last June, local architect Sidney Hoover was at Sonoma Blueprint having a series of blueprints made when he learned that the 18-year-old shop was going to close down soon.... Continue
At the regular Sonoma Valley Unified School District trustees meeting last night, Superintendent Barbara Young asked board members to discuss the criteria the board should apply as they plan to deal, in February, with the loss of the anticipated funding, which could turn out to... Continue
While Schwarzenegger’s proposed budget cuts for next year include K-12 education funding, the work for the Sonoma Valley Unified School District this week is how to budget in the wake of the loss of Measure E. That would have raised much needed funds and the... Continue