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Larry Barnett: Ashes to Ashes 

What is life? Erwin Schrodinger, of cat-in-a-box-simultaneously-living and-dead fame, wrote an entire book of that title on the subject, arguing that life emerges from the physics of “Negentropy” or negative entropy, i.e., extracting order from the environment. However, in some way as yet not understood,... Continue

Talking Baking With Mike the Bejkr

Baked Delicacies And Local Grains By Seth Dolinsky Every town has a baker, or at least should.  Sonoma has a few, one of which is found exclusively at our local farmers markets, as well as at occasional events and “pop-ups”.  Mike “The Bejkr” Zakowski has... Continue

Public Invited to Human Rights Summit and Resource Fair

On June 26 in Santa Rosa The Sonoma County Commission on Human Rights is hosting the inaugural Sonoma County Human Rights Summit & Immigration/Consumer Resource Fair, on Friday, June 26 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Sonoma County Administration Building, Room 100A, 575... Continue

Recapping SVHS Dragons Record Football Seasons

2024 Dragons Unbeaten Season By Steven Serafini Sonoma Valley Sun Sports Editor  The greatest season in Sonoma Valley High School football history unfolded in 2024, and deserves a review as we bring Sonoma Sun readers up to date on SVHS sports. Because that’s the season... Continue

Katy Byrne: Looking For Lost Socks

Life Advice From David Brooks  Anyone else frustrated lately? I keep thinking of the puppet Elmo’s question, “How’s everybody doing?” It got 200 million views and tens of thousands of replies. I could use Elmo around right now. I’m dazed and discombobulated recently, with whiplashing... Continue

Bringing the Fourth of July to Sonoma

Sonoma Volunteer Firefighters Association Keeping the Tradition Alive  By Anna Pier  Sonoma will once again host the wonderful, traditional Fourth of July events that have brought joy to our Valley for decades. Jason Campbell, Battalion Chief, is excited to be in charge as once again... Continue

The Women in Sonoma Who Helped Start a Beer Revolution

By Larry Barnett  Micro-Breweries are commonplace today, but that was not always so. In 1975, there were none, until that is, the New Albion Brewery on 8th Street East was created. It was the brainchild of three people, and one of them, Jane Zimmerman, still... Continue