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Pay for Elected City Council Members?

Sonoma City Council members were due to discuss at their meeting on Wednesday a compensation package that would elevate them from making no salary, as is now the case, to making $360 a month or more. Under a staff proposal, each Sonoma city council member... Continue

City council to pay itself salaries

The Sonoma City Council at its meeting Wednesday night approved a compensation package that will provide council members with a salary for the first time in city history. In a 4-1 vote, the council directed city staff to prepare an ordinance that will give members... Continue

Parcel tax campaign on track

Sonoma Valley Unified School District Superintendent Barbara Young says the campaign for the passage of Measure E, the district’s proposed parcel tax on the Nov. 6 ballot, “is going really well.” In an interview Monday, Young said the response received by volunteers at phone banks... Continue

Pay for Elected City Council Members?

Sonoma City Council members will discuss at their meeting on Wednesday a compensation package that would elevate them from making no salary, as is now the case, to making $360 a month or more. The meeting will begin at 6 p.m. at the Veterans Memorial... Continue

New communications equipment for local firefighters

The Valley of the Moon Firefighters Association has received a $10,000 grant to purchase voice amplifiers—a communications device attached to their oxygen masks that allows firefighters to talk back and forth during a fire. The grant comes from Unique Insurance Services (Agent Linda Huddleston) and... Continue

Data & Errata

They keep falling on my head.Here are some utterly unsettling rainy day activities to wile away this wet Sonoma weather: Look up area road closures online! For example, on its “Current Road Closures and Detours” page, Sonoma County Public Works warns of traffic delays on... Continue

Dragons victorious at Homecoming

Jayce Ray’s 47-yard run on the first play of the fourth quarter proved to be the decisive play in the Sonoma Dragons thrilling 15-12 homecoming victory over the visiting Casa Grande Gauchos Friday night at Arnold Field. Ray’s run, on a direct snap from center,... Continue

Mission impossible for Sonoma Scientologists

Deadlocked at 3-3, the Sonoma City Planning Commission on Thursday evening did not approve the application by Donna Barton to hold meetings of the Church of Scientology at the office building she is purchasing at 752 Broadway. This item had been continued from the commission’s... Continue

Confusion clouds cannabis future in Sonoma

The proposed dispensary is to be located in a commercial space in the Riverside Professional Building. Ryan lely/Sonoma Valley Sun Some members of the Sonoma City Council were not happy that County Supervisor Valerie Brown is reportedly trying to drag them into a hot-button issue... Continue