The counting is almost over – and the question of who’ll face incumbent First District Supervisor Valerie Brown in November’s runoff may be answered as early as today. “By Thursday or Friday we’ll have some totals,” assistant Registrar Of Voters Gloria Colter said yesterday morning.... Continue
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No arrests were made, but some 27,000 marijuana plants were uprooted yesterday from the northwest portion of Sugarloaf State Park near Kenwood. The Sonoma County Narcotic Task Force with assistance from the Napa Special Investigation Bureau found two garden sites which were apparently accessed through... Continue
On June 6, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger made legal what many considered legal all along. Senate Bill 607, which takes effect immediately, makes it okay for home winemakers to do home what winemakers do – share their wares at tasting competitions. Previous law had defined a... Continue
Two auto burglaries were successful and an attempted third was not, following a recent rash of vehicular tampering in northwest Sonoma. Sonoma Police Sgt. Dave Thompson said Friday that the first report came early Wednesday, after a man walking his dog along Junipero Serra Drive... Continue
The public comment was notably relaxed at the latest Sonoma City Council meeting when City Planner David Goodison introduced the adoption of a moratorium on the conversion of mobile home parks to resident ownership. Councilmember August Sebastiani set the tone at the start of Wednesday... Continue
Firefighters from the Sonoma Valley Fire and Rescue Authority interview the owner of a home struck by a pickup truck Friday afternoon.Photo by Ryan LelyAn 18-year-old Sonoma woman was shaken but apparently unhurt after she drove her Ford pickup truck into the corner of a... Continue
Sonoma’s old Patten Street firehouse is still up for grabs, but for a more permanent basis, following a closed session Wednesday night of the Sonoma Community Development Agency. The firehouse was decommissioned in October 2002, and recently housed on a temporary basis the police station... Continue
Sonoma Valley and Rincon Valley voters made a strong statement in Tuesday’s election for the Sonoma County District 1 Supervisor position. Valerie Brown is the incumbent and was overwhelming the top vote-getter, at 44.2 percent of all votes cast in the race. That mere plurality,... Continue
Driven by financial urgency, the board of directors of the Sonoma Valley Hospital have approved their 2009 budget and voted to place a bond measure for infrastructure upgrade–not land–on the November ballot. Because CEO Carl Gerlach and boardmember Bill Boerum were absent at their May... Continue
Mixed results for Memorial Day DUIs Depending on the jurisdiction, Memorial Day drunk-driving arrests took a hop or a dip this year – with Sonoma in the second category, having registered only one such bust during the holiday weekend. “She was driving around town with... Continue