A new lawsuit might be on the horizon at Rancho de Sonoma mobile home park. This time it will not be the owner suing the city, as Preston Cook did last August, but if plans go forward as Mike Warner, president of the Rancho de... Continue
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Dear Dr. Forsythe: My husband doesn’t trust veterinarians. He thinks he can do all the medicine himself. He goes to the pet store or to the pharmacy and gets whatever he thinks will help our animal (we have a cat and a dog and a... Continue
The Nathanson Creek Restoration day scheduled for Saturday Jan. 10 has been cancelled due to the suspension of a grant that has “frozen” Julie Jehly’s position of Stewardship Coordinator. Short of staff, the cleanup cannot proceed. The grant, Jehly said, was funded by Prop. 50,... Continue
The Valley of the Moon Water District Board of Directors toasted the new year at its meeting Tuesday evening with a glass of water from the newly operating Well #5. The directors moved smoothly and quickly through a number of items of business at the... Continue
In a 21-day holiday DUI crackdown that started Dec. 12 and ended at midnight Jan.1, law enforcement officers in Sonoma County brought in 250 DUI suspects, not 176 as the 'Avoid the 13' group had previously reported. This is a 13 percent increase from last... Continue
Sunday, Jan. 11, 2009 is National Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery Awareness Day. To help raise awareness of the issues surrounding this worldwide problem, Soroptimist International Clubs of Sonoma, Marin, and Mendocino counties will host an event at the Finley Center in Santa Rosa. The... Continue
Three Highway 12 projects set to begin Monday, Jan. 5 have been put on hold due to weather. Work may begin midweek, but is more likely to start on Monday, Jan. 12, according to the California Department of Transportation. The first project, daytime sidewalk and... Continue
The Valley of the Moon Water District Board of Directors’ agenda for its first regular meeting of the New Year includes a public hearing on proposed increases in customer charges, to be effective April 2009. The board also will elect new officers for the year.... Continue
The results are in and the word is out to the Obama-Biden transition team: Sonoma wants sweeping health care reform. At a Sonoma Valley community discussion last week, part of a nationwide response to invitations from the Obama-Biden transition team to communities throughout the country... Continue
In conjunction with Sonoma County Supervisor Valerie Brown, Sonoma County Sheriff Bill Cogbill will host a community meeting next week to discuss law enforcement issues in Sonoma Valley. To be addressed at the public meeting are crime rates in general, gangs, a recent sexual assault... Continue