A Sonoma County program that helps homeowners pay for improvements that utilize energy and water more efficiently and hardens buildings against wildfires and earthquakes, is being phased out amid new federal requirements. The Sonoma County Energy Independence Program, which allows residential property owners to finance... Continue
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FRIDAY, JULY 18 at 11:00 am (note earlier time) on Zoom JAMES GALBRAITH Praxis is honored to host James Galbraith is an internationally-acclaimed economist, scholar, and author. He holds the Lloyd M. Bentsen Jr. Chair in Government/Business Relations at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of... Continue
"...soon I would find mine was a story told at restaurants, bars and dinner parties across the country..." Hilary Campbell is a New Yorker magazine cartoonist who just happens to have been born and raised in Sonoma. Continue
CALL TO ACTION - NATIONAL DAY OF PROTEST JOHN LEWIS “GOOD TROUBLE LIVES ON" RALLY AND PROTEST WHEN: Thursday July 17 from 5-7 PM WHERE: Sonoma Plaza - Sonoma Valley THESE ARE TROUBLING TIMES - We will not sit silently by. When we come together... Continue
While walking along Sonoma Creek in Maxwell Farms Regional Park recently, Anna and Will Pier looked down and spotted two turtles sunning themselves on the big branch of a fallen tree extending into pooling water. Pleased to see again turtles they had spotted last year,... Continue
The following letter from Kathy King was recently received here at the Sonoma Valley Sun. Dear Friends of SOS, I'm writing to you today with a deep sense of gratitude and immense pride in what we've accomplished together at SOS Unity Kitchen. After 10 years... Continue
Having moved two months ago from the home my wife and I lived in for nearly 30 years, I’ve been going through boxes, many of which were packed years ago and stored. Among them are boxes of material passed down to me by my father:... Continue
It was no contest. The turn-out for the Orange Menace in DC on Saturday, June 14, for his birthday, and ostensibly for the 250th anniversary of the U.S. Army, was measly, a joke as compared with the estimated five million Anti-King demonstrators who turned out... Continue
Roger Rhoten, who has devoted much of his adult life to the preservation and enhancement of the historic Sebastiani Theatre, has also spent one special day each year, for the last four decades (?), riding a classic Penny Farthing in the Fourth of July parade.... Continue
As this issue hits the streets, Sonoma and the entire nation is preparing to celebrate yet another bombs-bursting-in-air Fourth of July, replete with exuberant flag-waving, bands, parades, fireworks, speechifying and wine, until dawn’s early light. Given the political drama of current times, no one should... Continue