The Sonoma City Council met with the city’s traffic safety committee Monday night to discuss possible speed-limit modifications in seven out of 26 streets recently surveyed by a transportation specialist. Every five years, the city of Sonoma is required by law to conduct a speed... Continue
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New hospital CEO to ink contract Carl Gerlach, the newly hired chief executive officer of the Sonoma Valley Hospital, is expected to sign a contract that will determine his annual salary at a Feb. 21 meeting of the hospital board. Time and location hadn’t been... Continue
There won't be a Sonoma Valley Health Care Coalition meeting tonight, Monday, Feb. 12. The coalition usually meets at 7 p.m. at the Sonoma Community Center. The ad hoc group has been meeting at various locations for months to try to come up with a... Continue
One thrift store to rule them all Sunrise Outlet, a thrift store located in the Fiesta Plaza shopping mall in Boyes Hot Springs that’s affiliated with the Sonoma Developmental Center, is closing. The Sonoma Development Center, or SDC, is a state residence for clients with... Continue
At a lightly attended meeting Tuesday evening, the Sonoma Valley Hospital board selected Carl Gerlach as its new Chief Executive Officer. While his actual title is "interim CEO," Gerlach was frank about wanting the position to be "interim" for as short a time as possible.... Continue
The Humane Society & SPCA of Sonoma County is launching a foster dog program to place current canine residents of the Humane Society into loving and highly trained foster homes. The program was created for those dogs that have special-training needs and that require one-on-one... Continue
Hoping to improve the odds that voters will approve a hospital parcel tax, Robert Kowal, the CEO of the Sonoma Valley Hospital, and John MacConaghy, a hospital board member, this week resigned from their posts. At presstime, Kowal’s resignation wasn’t official. The hospital board was... Continue
On Friday afternoon, the Sonoma City Council toured portions of the plaza and wheeled down Broadway as far as the Sonoma Post Office propelled by their own arm muscles. Each councilmember was in a wheelchair as part of a disability-barrier awareness tour. The city council,... Continue
When a longtime client of North Bay Insurance received a form from the government that she couldn’t understand, she stuck it in her purse and walked the few blocks from the Post Office on Broadway to the insurance company’s offices on McDonell Street and knocked... Continue
California law requires that government bodies post agendas before their meetings, in order for the public to have advance notice of what will be discussed. Often, one has to read between the lines to guess at what to expect, particularly for closed sessions, where personnel... Continue