Louisa Percudani will take the reins as the new executive director of the Sonoma Valley Film Festival in May 2008. Current executive and festival director Marc Lhormer will be leaving the organization this April. Percudani’s hiring comes after an exhaustive search by the Film Society... Continue

On Senior Night, the tri-captains Sheila Brady, Steph Sevilla, and Sarah Semenero put on a performance that will echo in the halls of Pfeiffer Gymnasium for years to come. The trio scored 46 total points as the Lady Dragons upended the Windsor Jaguars in a... Continue

On Tuesday morning just before 6 a.m., a Toyota sedan, traveling south on Hwy. 12 between Arnold Drive and Madrone Road, pulled out to pass a garbage truck but hit head on a Honda Civic traveling north. The impact spun the Toyota into the path... Continue

Faith Lutheran Preschool, which has been suffering declining enrollment and financial problems, will close as of February 19. Pastor Tom Windsor, who took over as pastor in November, told the Sun, “We are all hurting about this. It was a financial decision.” In a further,... Continue

In their regular meeting Tuesday evening, the school board trustees will consider a list of recommendations from the superintendent to address the anticipated state budget reductions. In addition, the trustees hope to reinstate programs cut several years ago and to restore the mandated reserves. According... Continue

Two 18-year-old males were caught red-handed early Thursday morning, as police deputies ... Late Breaking News ... Saturday morning about 2:30 a.m., a stabbing was reported at the 7-11 store on West Napa Street. Deputies found a 30-year-old white male victim near the Black Bear... Continue

“If you think having a growth management program is hard on people’s property values,” said Mayor Joanne Sanders when it came her turn to offer an opinion on legislation to lower the growth rate, “try telling them we don’t have any water.” The issue was... Continue

The recent rash of petty and not-so-petty crime points to a larger problem that a recent survey said is Sonoma’s top concern: crime and gang-related activity. Less obvious, and harder to quantify is the problem underlying and perpetuating that problem: n-methyl-1-phenyl-propan-2-amine, methamphetamine, or meth. “You... Continue

The Sonoma Creek Watershed is an area of creeks and tributaries covering some 170 square miles, flanked on the west by the Sonoma Mountain Range and on the east by the Mayacamas Mountains, and extending in the north from Kenwood to San Pablo Bay. It’s... Continue