The Sonoma Economic Development Partnership and Sonoma Valley Chamber of Commerce will be sponsoring several business workshops this spring. To learn about how the local chamber of commerce helps businesses, attend the chamber-sponsored “Business after Hours” networking event March 1, from 5:30 to 7 p.m.... Continue
What’s Happening
Local Sonoma Valley News:
Sonoma Valley voters on Tuesday passed by a healthy margin Measure B, a five-year tax of $195 per parcel to help fund operations of the Sonoma Valley Hospital. The final, unofficial tally at 10:43 p.m. showed the parcel tax — which needed 66 percent support... Continue
A house at 89 Hawthorne Ave. burned down at about 9:30 p.m. Saturday due to flammable material being left too close to a water heater, said a statement from the Sonoma Valley Fire and Rescue Authority. No one was injured. Thirty firefighters in eight vehicles... Continue
A 17-year-old Sonoma girl with five teenaged, female passengers lost control of her eastbound 1997 Volkswagen Jetta at about 11 p.m. Friday on Leveroni Road and drove into the path of a westbound BMW Z3 convertible driven by James Rich, 47, of Santa Rosa. The... Continue
David Sharpe, 23, died in a single-car crash when he hit a large palm tree at about 4 p.m. Friday on Olive Avenue near Arnold Drive. The former U.S. Marine had to be extricated from his vehicle and was taken by a helicopter operated by... Continue
Carl Gerlach only recently moved into his office at the Sonoma Valley Hospital, so he hasn’t had a lot of time to decorate. But one of the knick-knacks that Gerlach, the hospital’s interim chief executive officer, has on his desk is a letter-holder that consists... Continue
That's what a new winery on Stage Gulch Road proposes to offer. Going before the Sonoma County Planning Commission on Thursday afternoon, Carneros View Vineyard proposes to construct a new winery on 25 acres at 4202 Stage Gulch Road. Phase I includes construction of 52,000... Continue
The Sonoma City Council refused to raise speed limits on local streets, as had been recommended in a joint study session with the Traffic Safety Committee on February 12. That session had focused on compliance with state law, which requires that speed limits be established... Continue
Wednesday, Feb. 14 The need for read A young man, apparently unclear on the concept of a “spare tire” was spotted doing laps around the library parking lot on West Napa Street – in his car. Though the exercise surely did little for his physique,... Continue
A Sun reader called recently and complained because, as a fixed-income retiree (who didn’t want her name used), she would have to shoulder the entire $195 per-parcel tax sought by the hospital to help fund its operations. Meanwhile the same $195 annual expense would be... Continue