Café Scooteria opens cart, fills delivery niche

There’s a new drive-thru coffee cart in town and this one is also set to bring the joe right to the door of your business. Café Scooteria is located at Sorento Imports, 455 West Napa Street, and might just be the cutest cart you’ve ever... Continue

Local school supply drive will aid children around the world

[caption id="attachment_26141" align="alignnone" width="420" caption="Children in Iraq enjoy the school kits they received lat year."][/caption] Last year, the Plaza-based store Baksheesh collected 522 school kits. Mennonite Central Committee, a nonprofit relief and development organization, put them together with others and sent 1,981 of the kits... Continue

Cruising with Sonoma’s young entrepreneurs

It began as a lark, a funny conversation over a meal at a pizza joint in La Jolla while visiting a sister at UC San Diego last summer. This year it morphed into a fledgling start-up enterprise, complete with a presentation to the planning commission,... Continue

Do the hustle

Sonoma Academy of Dance and Arts is packing its bags and heading for the big time – the bright lights of the Sonoma Veterans Memorial Hall, that is. It seems that the historic building on First Street East that they’ve inhabited for the past number... Continue

New owner of yoga studio stays centered

Yoga teacher Lisa Murray has assumed a new position – she bought the business. Murray is the new owner of Yoga Community, the studio space and boutique in the West Plaza Shopping Center. The Tennessee native has been teaching at the studio for four years.... Continue

New property management company fills niche

HawkHill Estate Management is destined to be Wine Country’s premier home and estate management service. With more than twenty years of real estate and property management experience, the company was founded by Caleb Miller to meet the demand for professional and personalized property, home, and... Continue

New property management company fills niche

Couple open Sonoma’s first eco-friendly salon

John and Adria Falcon have opened Sonoma’s first “green” hair and beauty salon in a clean, bright space in the Carneros Village Lofts on First Street West. The open and airy studio is the perfect compliment to the couples’ philosophy on haircare, beauty and overall... Continue

Put the Pedal to the metal

Pedal 2 Properties has hired a number of new agents to represent the Sonoma Valley. The unique business is a well-established full service real estate company with a niche - showing prospective properties and homes via bicycle. New representatives include: bilingual agent, Rita del Campo;... Continue

Gorham will manage new Rabobank branch

[caption id="attachment_20330" align="alignnone" width="420" caption="The branch at 10 Maple St. will be the county’s first."][/caption] One of the financial institutions that bid on the failed Sonoma Valley Bank will soon open its own branch in Sonoma. Rabobank N.A plans to be open for business at... Continue