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Ballot proposals may be on collision course

Cirrus Health, a Dallas, Tex.-based hospital company, plans to ask Sonoma voters in June to extend the city’s urban growth boundary, or UGB, to allow it to build a new privately funded hospital at Eighth Street East and Napa Road. Meanwhile, the Sonoma Valley Health... Continue

Sonoma Valley Sun names Kathleen Hill food and wine editor

Kathleen Hill, local epicurean, prolific writer and longtime contributor to both the Sonoma Valley Sun and FineLife, has been appointed to the newly created position of Food and Wine Editor. She will oversee ThreeHouse MultiMedia’s coverage of two defining aspects of the Sonoma Valley. “We... Continue

‘Save the Date’ for The Sunnys

ThreeHouse MultiMedia, Inc., has announced that the gala celebrating The Sunnys, its annual community awards program, will be held on March 24 at the Lodge at Sonoma. The event will honor the 2006 Community Organization of the Year, the Valley of the Moon Children’s Foundation,... Continue

Trader Joe’s sought for Fiesta Plaza

Two Sonoma women have launched an e-mail and Internet campaign to try to bring a Trader Joe’s supermarket to the Fiesta Plaza in Boyes Hot Springs. Cathy Claeys was inspired by an article in the Oct. 5 edition of the Sun in which Jodi Azevedo,... Continue

Seminar on avoiding a law suit

“How not To Get Sued” will be the topic of a breakfast seminar in Sonoma for small businesses sponsored by Employer of Choice Associates on Jan. 12 from 7:30 - 9 a.m. In addition to employment legal updates, attendees will benefit from discussing the top... Continue

Hospital grabs headlines in 2006

The year of 2006 came flooding into the Sonoma Valley. Literally. Incredibly heavy rains in late December 2005 caused the worst flooding in years here and elsewhere in northern California. Top stories that came later in 2006 included the failed Measure C campaign to build... Continue

Tom turkeys turn tail

Wild turkeys put on a show at Sugarloaf Ridge State Park, part of one of the many flocks in Sonoma Valley. Marla Hastings, senior environmental scientist for the California State Parks Diablo Vista District, said 121 of the birds were trapped and “relocated” from Annadel... Continue

Oakland cop to be tried for Sonoma incident

Oakland police officer Christopher Delrosario was due to answer to charges today for reportedly attempting to grab a woman on Sept. 1 in Sonoma and then brandishing a handgun at two bystanders who tried to help her. At a preliminary hearing in Santa Rosa, Sonoma... Continue

Dems to pick delegates

Marin and southern Sonoma Democrats who live in the 6th Assembly District are invited to help select delegates to the California Democratic Party’s State Convention to be held April 27-29 in San Diego. Delegates for the 6th Assembly District will be elected on Jan. 14,... Continue

Sun’s ‘Passport’ promotion pays off

The Sonoma Valley Sun’s recently launched “Passport” promotion, wherein Sun readers visited participating merchants to have their news-printed passports stamped for eligibility in a $500 drawing, has a winner. Susan Herringa-Pieper was presented with five crisp $100 bills on Tuesday. “I’m really happy we had... Continue