The Sonoma Valley Hospital has recently undergone an intense examination by the Joint Commission, on whose approval accreditation depends. The hospital has completed this stage of the process with high praise. Hospital CEO, Carl Gerlach, reporting to the board at their regular meeting on Wednesday,... Continue

Two ducks wander around the Plaza pond in the wake of an attack that left broken nests and nearly destroyed the Plaza’s duck population. Photo by Ryan Lely. Whatever killed the 13 ducklings in Sonoma Plaza’s pond this weekend threw enough of a scare into... Continue

Sharon Paster works on a new piece for Wet Paint. Photo by Windsor Green. On Saturday night, Sonoma’s historic Ledson house opened its doors for the Sonoma Valley Museum of Art’s 10th annual Wet Paint event. Set in the beautiful Armstrong Estates, Wet Paint is... Continue

Smoke from the Solano and Napa County fires fills the Valley over the past week. Photo by Ryan Lely. Sonoma’s skies were white this week with smoke and ash from hundreds of last Friday’s lightning-sparked Northern California wildfires, and local firefighters helped their Napa Valley... Continue

Charlotte Lamb was a driving force in the creation of the Sonoma Valley Museum of Art. Photo by Blaine Transue. Charlotte Lamb, whose quiet devotion and astute intelligence made her one of Sonoma’s most effective supporters for the arts and for organizations that work to... Continue

It’s come to this. Now that the City’s Mobile Home Ordinance is drafted, and is coming up for a final vote before the Sonoma City Council, and after intense efforts at mediation by an ad hoc committee, and with the Rancho de Sonoma homeowners’ association... Continue

The counting is over – incumbent First District Supervisor Valerie Brown will face challenger Will Pier in November’s runoff. The final results, released late Friday afternoon, show Brown with 11,399 votes (44.1 percent) and Pier with 6,005 votes (23.2 percent). On June 4, the initial... Continue

City Hall prepares for renovation Those wishing to fight City Hall – or simply pay their water bill – will have to march a block south for the next couple of months while the nearly century-old building undergoes renovations. Telephone numbers and e-mail addresses will... Continue

On Friday, the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) announced a new approach for controlling the light brown apple moth – but the plan for Sonoma remains the same. Two specimens were found near Sonoma earlier this year, causing CDFA to place a 15-square-mile... Continue