Customers at Sonoma Beauty Supply & Tanning Salon, located in the Sonoma Marketplace Shopping Center, are seeing numerous changes in the shop, starting with a new owner and a team of new employees. Sonoma businesswoman Lillian Meyers, owner of Meyers Financial, recently purchased Sonoma Beauty... Continue
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Let a dog into your life and your life will change, inevitably for the better, which is odd, since dogs ask very little. All they want, more than anything, is to be with you. And so, when an adorable little bundle of love came into... Continue
With three major issues to be heard, there was standing room only at the Sonoma Valley Memorial Veterans Building when Chairman Karl Keener of the Sonoma Valley Citizens Advisory Commission called the meeting to order at 6:30 p.m.?James McGrath, spokesperson for the Glen Ellen California... Continue
On Friday at 10:48 a.m., deputies from the Sheriffs Department and Sonoma Police Department responded to an armed robbery that occurred at Castellanos Jewelers at 18901 Sonoma Hwy. in the Vineyard Center. The female clerk, who was alone at the store, reported that an Hispanic... Continue
August Sebastiani captured attention in Sonoma with his suggestion on Nov. 8, the day after he was elected to city council, that he’d like to bring a Christmas nativity scene back to the plaza. But the 26-year-old city councilman isn’t the only member of his... Continue
When one hears the words “social club,” images of crusty curmudgeons in overstuffed chairs, smoking pipes and cooking up some order of patriarchal cabal to decide the fate of the little people. Then there’s the Sonoma Bear Flag Social Club, a social service start-up conceived... Continue
To tax, or not to tax – and at what rate – those were the questions at the Dec. 6 board of directors meeting of the Sonoma Valley Health Care District. After about an hour’s worth of discussion and public comment, the board voted unanimously... Continue
There wasn’t a moment to spare for the Sonoma Valley Health Care District’s board when it voted on Dec. 6 to seek voters’ approval on March 6 for a new parcel tax. The deadline to get the proposal on the ballot was the next day,... Continue
City to lease plaza parking lot At its Dec. 6 meeting, city council voted to pay $3,000 a month to lease the Casa Grande parking from the State Department of Parks and Recreation. In Feb. 2004, council authorized the city manager to enter into a... Continue
Once again the holiday season is here. And once again all the goodies and celebratory feasts will soon make many of us feel as stout as Mrs. Claus. Plus, the strain of playing Santa often makes you feel as stressed-out as an overworked elf on... Continue