With candles and song, nearly 200 people last night sought to bring light to the dark place in Boyes Hot Springs where a woman was raped last week. “Feel how powerful our collective voice is ... in changing this place where so much pain has... Continue

The Sonoma Valley Museum of Art board of directors announced today that Executive Director Lia Transue will be leaving her post effective January 8, 2009. Transue has led the museum as executive director for eight years and is now, according to the board’s statement, ready... Continue

Five cars were damaged in an overnight rampage last week that roused dogs but not residents of an east Sonoma neighborhood. A deputy responded Sunday morning, Nov. 2, to the 800 block of Oak Lane, where – sometime between 11 p.m. Saturday and 1 a.m.... Continue

Sonoma County voters broke their own all-time participation record on Nov. 4 – but all that electoral enthusiasm means it’ll take a while to find out who won. “We have to credit vote-by-mail with a certain amount of this,” county Registrar of Voters Janice Atkinson... Continue

With candles and song, nearly 200 people last night sought to bring light to the dark place in Boyes Hot Springs where a woman was raped last week. “Feel how powerful our collective voice is ... in changing this place where so much pain has... Continue

In response to last Thursday’s sexual assault in Boyes Hot Springs, area residents are planning to take to their streets this evening with light and music. “Bright lights, involved neighbors, and police response make neighborhoods less vulnerable,” reads one of the fliers dotting the area... Continue

Saying “the time has come for me to pass the torch,” Sonoma Valley Museum of Art co-founder Lia Transue announced her resignation as executive director Monday. In an e-mail to the museum’s membership list, Transue cited her 10 years with the museum and eight years... Continue

The first California hotel built north of San Francisco may be in line for some repairs following a unanimous decision Wednesday night by the Sonoma City Council. Sitting as the Community Development Agency (CDA), which oversees property improvements in the city’s downtown commercial corridor, the... Continue

Membership is up – way up – at the newly reopened Valley of the Moon Teen Center in Boyes Hot Springs. Following six years of planning, fundraising and building, the former El Nido Teen Center now boasts almost 100 members. But while the membership numbers... Continue