Letter from the Editor
David Bolling: WUI Risks and a Forest of Uncut Grasses
The cover on this issue of the Sun caused some discomfort, among our own staff. Too sensational, too scary, too much out of context. All…
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Public Citizen
Larry Barnett: My Latest Remodel
In preparing to sell my home of thirty years, my real estate agent advised me to update it. More than just a touch up, it…
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Food and Wine
Kathleen Hill: New Smash, Goodbye Sonoma Eats and Starling, Easter Specials and the Shame of César Chávez
Smash restaurant to open on Sonoma Plaza The Glen Ellen Star–Stella team will open their new Smash restaurant on the ground floor of Taub Family…
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Snark Infested Waters
Bob Edwards: Middle East War # 4,163,79
Waiting For Iran War Memorial As we go to press, a sizable segment of the population is gathered around open bottles of refreshments to analyze…
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As I See It
Will Shonbrun: Jarvis And Me II
(Editor’s note: This is the second of two reports on death row inmate Jarvis Masters, a practicing Buddhist convicted of producing a weapon used to…
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Cartoons by Hilary
Cartoon by Hilary: “And this is the building’s coworking space.”
Hilary Campbell is a New Yorker magazine cartoonist, author and humorist. She also happens to have been born and raised right here in Sonoma.
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What's Up With That?
Katy Byrne: IBS or BS?
My stomach’s been off lately. I’m not sure if it’s IBS, or the BS of politics. I suppose doctors will probe me and figure out…
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Community Voices
John Staley: A Decade Without Decadence
By John Staley Sobriety is a pain in the ass – inconvenient in other words. When I decided to quit drinking ten years ago, I…
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Voices of the New Majority
Loretta Carpio Carr: Giving of Your Heart, One-by-one
Along with the rising cost of gasoline, insurance, groceries, water, gas and electricity, and taxes, I have noticed the increase in ticket costs to attend…
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Rude Awakenings
Catherine Sevenau: Through Any Given Door – A Family Memoir Prologue
My brother Larry thought Mom was a good mother, but he had a different childhood than we did. My sisters were convinced otherwise: Carleen complained…
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Sonoma Farm Scene
Seth Dolinsky: Friday Farmers Market – Local Food Central
Sonoma’s Friday Farmers market – officially the Sonoma Valley Certified Farmer’s Market (SCVFM) – has been the Valley’s main source for locally produced food for…
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Personal/Political
Josette Brose-Eichar: Josette and Dave’s Excellent Vacation
I first began writing about LeFever-Mattson in 2021. My husband Dave and I began our amateur investigation of Ken and Stacy Mattson in about 2019. …
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Wild Valley
Helen-Teri Shore: Burn Piles or Critter Condos?
What To Do with Burn Piles? Lately I’ve seen burn piles of oak limbs, bay branches, manzanita and tangled grass and leaves in parks and…
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