Wednesday, May 7: Among the topics discussed at last night’s Sonoma City Council meeting were graffiti abatement and enfordcement; development of city-owned Affordable Housing Opportunity Sites; and the state-sponsored transfer of Skaggs Island from the Department of the Navy to the San Pablo Bay National... Continue

A pilot project for street improvements got the tentative go-ahead last week from the Springs Redevelopment Advisory Committee. “We would be more than glad to be the poster child for neighborhood improvements,” Mulberry Avenue resident Jan Mosgofian told the committee at its May 1 meeting.... Continue

Sonoma firefighters extinguish a fire that burned nearly two acres of land on Arnold Drive. Ryan Lely/Sonoma valley sun The line came down, the field went up – but the driver is safe. That was the situation on Arnold Drive between Olive and Petaluma Avenues... Continue

The Sonoma County Board of Supervisors has approved an agreement with National Association of Counties (NACo) to bring its Prescription Drug Discount program to Sonoma County residents. District 1 Supervisor Valerie Brown helped launch the program at a meeting at Vintage House Senior Center on... Continue

Moth quarantine in Sonoma The California Department of Food and Agriculture announced on Monday the 15-square mile boundary of the quarantine imposed after a second moth was discovered in Sonoma on April 20. The quarantine will restrict movements of all plants including grapes, and will... Continue

Eleven local leaders will be jailed today – and, so they and the Muscular Dystrophy Association hope, bailed, as well. “They get their mug shot taken and all that stuff,” MDA spokesperson Jackie Miller said Tuesday, explaining that while the “jail” is actually the El... Continue

The Sonoma County Board of Supervisors has approved an agreement with National Association of Counties (NACo) and CVS/Caremark Inc. to bring the NACo Prescription Drug Discount program to Sonoma County residents. District 1 Supervisor Valerie Brown will help launch the program at a meeting at... Continue

To extraordinary people, extraordinary deeds seem ordinary. “It’s what we do,” said Nora Flood, Director of the Sonoma Charter School, who was among the honorees at Three House MultiMedia’s “Sunnys” Community Awards Celebration at the Fairmont Sonoma Mission Inn, on Friday. Three House President Stephanie... Continue

The old saying that “the cobbler’s children go shoeless” is no longer true of Sonoma’s Public Works Department, which is settling into a new building – complete with functional bathrooms and heating. “Now I can be happy,” joked Street Foreman Dean Merrill, a 19-year departmental... Continue