How long have you been practicing medicine? Let’s see now, 57 years. I always tell people, if you like what you’re doing, don’t retire. Unless there’s another job you like more that you want to do. I like being helpful, being useful. You can always... Continue

How old are you? I’m 29.   Where were you born? In Guadalajara, Mexico in 1989. My parents brought my four older sisters and me to the U.S. when I was around three.   Did they come straight to Sonoma? No, first we moved to... Continue

Under the Sun: Alex Flores, paint store guy Tell us a little about yourself I’m 21, and grew up in Glen Ellen. I  went to Dunbar School and Altimira, and graduated from Sonoma Valley High School in 2015. I spent a year at Santa Rosa... Continue

The Sun’s Anna Pier sat down with Jessie Barbour, who celebrated her hundredth birthday on March 13, 2019. What are your earliest memories? My memories go back to when I was five, when I started school in Napa. I went to first grade at the... Continue

Sun: What’s a typical “day in the life” of a studio manager? Bob Taylor: The KSVY radio hosts rotate in and out of the broadcast studio usually every hour, so there is a set of people coming and going constantly. This is one of my... Continue

  The Sun’s Anna Pier sat down with Sonoma’s new Director of Planning and Community Services, David Storer. I pick up a British accent. Yes, I was born and raised in England, in a small town near Nottingham that dates back to 1000. On this... Continue

When did you start writing? Not really till my late 30s. As a child I always wrote poetry. Poems inspired by the street culture of San Francisco – the jump rope rhymes, the Korean clapping games.  After college, I did lots of technical writing, working... Continue

Local physician Brian Sebastian is the founder and director of the a capella singing group, Valley of the Moon Chamber Ensemble. The Sun's Anna Pier sat down with the singing doctor to learn about his music and his medicine. So which came first, music or... Continue

Energy consultant Tom Conlon has been sounding the alarm: everyone needs to take our climate crisis more seriously and start acting accordingly. Originally trained as an applied anthropologist, this electrician turned energy policy analyst and software developer has been thinking about how to solve environmental... Continue