Jack London – author, reporter, adventurer, social activist… farmer. While the practice of sustainable agriculture is now entering the mainstream, London, at his Beauty Ranch in Glen Ellen, was implementing progressive farming techniques over 100 years ago. London experimented with ideas, unheard of at the... Continue
A proposed bike and walking trail from Santa Rosa to the Springs, a paved, 13-mile link from Melita Road to existing paths in Sonoma, is the subject of a community workshop on Saturday, October 4, at Dunbar School from 9 to 11 a.m. The initial... Continue
Emerging into the dusk is the The Soroptimist International of Sonoma Valley float, the first-place winner in the Valley of the Moon Vintage Festival’s nighttime parade on Sonoma Plaza. Tami Cotter, Soroptimist vice president, accepts the first-place award from Dean Zellars, chairman of festival parade... Continue
The under-13 girls soccer team Sonoma SC Fury won the Santa Cruz Classic Tournament. The proud gold medal winners are, top row from left: Coach Eduardo Haro; Jaymee Pearce; Michaela Zeiter; Vanessa Ramirez; Alexia Contreras; Kamryn Conway; Sophia Smith; Elvializ Ramos; and Coach Jeff Pearce.... Continue
In the event of a disaster – a nearby 6.0 earthquake, for example, or even worse -- you must be prepared to shelter in your home for a minimum of 72 hours. Are you ready? Sonoma Valley residents are urged to take part in the... Continue
(By Walt Williams) You have been trying to finish this piece for months but tragedy keeps intervening. There’s no easy way to write about the topic, you start and stop your story many times, deleting, rewriting, deleting, rewriting. How do you pay homage correctly? You... Continue
For the Petaluma High School football team's show of support Friday night for Michael Seelye, the Sonoma High player being treated for Lymphoma, SV High School Principal Kathleen Hawing sent this letter of thanks to her counterpart. On behalf of Sonoma Valley High School and... Continue
(By Georgia Kelly) Fourteen years ago, when Praxis Peace Institute was born in Dubrovnik, Croatia, from a conference held there, we posed the following inquiry: How could we achieve cultures of peace from where we were? Why did mankind seem incapable of learning the lessons... Continue
Like Tiger Woods’ smooth stroke, The Los Arroyos Golf Course is long gone -- and now so are all the trees. The parcel on Stage Gulch Road near Watmaugh has been completely cleared. For what? No plans submitted yet, but it turns out all that... Continue
The Sonoma Valley Regional Library and the Sonoma Valley Friends of the Library want you to know about services now offered outside the library walls. Access to the 24/7 wi-fi hotspot at the library, for example, has been made more comfortable with the addition of... Continue