The largest U.S. home-mortgage lender announced Friday that it would trim costs in the face of a severe drop in home-mortgage lending. The combination of rising defaults and falling house prices has created a stampede of investors who now deem the market for many types... Continue
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A Sonoma firefighter received second-degree burns while fighting a fire that consumed an El Verano home Thursday afternoon. After being hit on the forehead by falling debris, he drove himself to the hospital, where he was treated and released, according to a Sonoma Valley FireMed... Continue
When my father had his giant heart attack, people rallied in interesting ways. Hundreds of cards arrived in the mail--he'd made a significant impact on so many folks. Care packages came stocked with "waiting room" supplies like crackers and nuts and shiny pulp fiction. One... Continue
The Sonoma City Council is holding a special meeting on Monday, Sept. 10, to consider making changes to the funding allocations adopted earlier for local non-profits that provide services to city residents. "Council members [Steve] Barbose and [Joanne] Sanders had requested that we revisit the... Continue
Sonoma's own Dr. Dick Kirk, chairman of the Sonoma Valley Health Care District Board of Directors, was elected last week as Chairman of the Northern California Healthcare Authority. Sonoma was joined by three other hospitals to make up that body, newly formed at Thursday's meeting:... Continue
photo BY PAUL BUNTING It takes a village to create a new playground. In the case of the one that made its debut last week at the Sonoma Charter School, it took more than 150 volunteers to help dismantle the old equipment, prepare the site... Continue
Water conservation measures on target Krishna Kumar, general manager of the Valley of the Moon Water District, reports water usage conservation this month surpassed the state-mandated target of fifteen percent, registering an 18.4 percent savings in the Valley overall. Issued July 1 and enforceable through... Continue
Ryan lely/Sonoma Valley Sun Jeannie Fitzsimons in her Showcase gallery in Glen Ellen. The hamlet of Glen Ellen is a bit more colorful these days with the opening of Showcase Gallery. Opened in July in a one-story wooden building next to the historic Chauvet Hotel... Continue
Staff Report Three House MultiMedia has officially launched FilmArt3, a new cinema division helmed by in-house producer-writer-director Daedalus Howell, editor of F•L magazine. Howell’s films have appeared on Showtime, MTV2, the Independent Film Channel and French network Canal+. Howell has assembled a team composed of... Continue
While we in Sonoma Valley are enjoying the late-summer weather, a threat is drifting our way, courtesy of the four-day-old wildfire far to the south of us. An illegal debris burn is the culprit, according to investigators of the so-called Lick Fire that began Monday... Continue