The state’s highest environmental honor, the 2008 Governor’s Environmental and Economic Leadership Award, was presented to the Kunde Family Estate at a ceremony in Sacramento on Nov. 25. Jeff Kunde, fourth-generation winegrower and leader of the Kunde Family Estate’s “Green Team,” received the award, in... Continue
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The air of celebration continues at Sonoma Valley Hospital as the holidays approach. They invite all to come to join them in the main lobby at 347 Andrieux Street, Dec. 3 at 5:30 p.m. to celebrate their annual tree lighting ceremony with music, refreshments and... Continue
The living nativity returns to the Plaza (at the head of Broadway) this year on Thursdays, December 4, 11, and 18 from 5 to 6 p.m. Everyone in the community is invited to participate. Continue
Sonoma Valley High School invites parents, future students and community members to come and learn about all the school has to offer its students: a comprehensive academic program, the multitude of courses of study available, the success of its students and the support services provided.... Continue
Straight from the fiscal war zone of Sacramento, Sandra Lowe’s warnings at almost any meeting of the Sonoma Valley Unified School District (SVUSD) would sound like cries from Cassandra. Cuts and more cuts would be coming, she would tell them – so get ready. “You’ll... Continue
Marty Olmstead and Bonnie Durrance Scrooge came early to the Sonoma Plaza this year, in the form of a notification that the California Bureau of Alcoholic Beverage Control was revoking the alcohol license of a longtime downtown business. Plaza Liquors must stop selling alcohol on... Continue
Jody Purdom Special to the Sun Stanley Cohen’s meteoric rise in local politics began almost immediately upon his arrival in Sonoma. Moving here from Chicago with his wife in 1997, Cohen had barely gotten settled when he stepped up to the plate and became a... Continue
Santa Rosa man got an unexpected ride home Sunday evening after using his cell phone to make a mountainside distress call. Stuart Dunn, 60, telephoned the Sonoma County Sheriff’s Department around 5 p.m. to say he had hiked up Hood Mountain from Adobe Canyon Road... Continue
Infineon Raceway donated a single-year record of nearly 3,000 pounds of non-perishable food items to Friends in Sonoma Helping (FISH) and the Committee on the Shelterless (COTS) in Petaluma during the facility’s eighth annual Thanksgiving Food Drive. The amount marked one of the largest single... Continue
Less than three weeks after a record number of Sonoma County voters cast their 2008 ballots, incumbent First District Supervisor Valerie Brown has defeated challenger Will Pier by a 2.8 percent margin. The final tally, certified just before 6:15 p.m. yesterday, shows Brown ahead of... Continue