When was the last time you treated yourself to a stage production by one of the amazingly talented drama productions at Sonoma County's high schools? If you're like me, you go see a play at one of the schools and are  utterly blown away, but for some reason you don't [...]

It's not the green beer playing tricks on your vision. Local leprechauns really will be ringin’ a bell alongside green Salvation Army kettles on St. Patty’s Day and inviting small gifts to help meet great needs.   Football Hall of Famer and ex-49er Bob St. Clair will man a kettle outside [...]

It’s not quite as exciting as the real deal was, almost 34 years ago. But still it’s huge for Sonoma County that a major exhibition on The Running Fence is coming to the Smithsonian American Art Museum in D.C.   The Fence’s co-creator, Christo, who lost his wife and partner, [...]

Over the decades, many of Sonoma County's leading citizens have been hailed as Grand Marshal of the Rose Parade. This year, a pivotal year for Santa Rosa's historic parade, the honor goes to a fifth-grade girl. Zoe Valrey, who's 10, was selected because she made lemonade of last year’s bitter news that [...]

As the venerable old Konocti Harbor Inn sits dark and silent in financially anguished Lake County, a tribe continues to pursue an angrily contested plan to build a dazzling casino resort where?   On the edge of Rohnert Park, not far from the Walmart, Costco and Food Max. Props to [...]

If we talk a bit about how a Santa Rosa mother was insulted after she phoned a fancy bakery regarding a cake for her daughter’s Quinceanera celebration, maybe the affront will be less likely to happen again.   Rose Latham’s account isn’t the first I’ve heard from Sonoma County people [...]

It's heartening, everything that people of all ages throughout Sonoma, Mendocino and Lake counties are doing to help ease the suffering and stabilize lives in Haiti. Tonight, Santa Rosa's Community Baptist Church invites us all to come hear some award-winning gospel music and at the same time extend aid to Haiti. [...]

Are you keeping track of all these frightening incidents involving seniors who hit the gas pedal by mistake and crash into buildings, objects or people? At Copperfield's Books in Montgomery Village on Saturday, a Subaru driven by an elderly woman crashed through the glass doors and a storefront window. Two customers were hurt though, [...]

So, what’s your guess as to why there are always bananas peels scattered across the concrete divider on Highway 12 at Fulton Road in westernmost Santa Rosa?   I envision a commuter grabbing a banana on the way out of his Sebastopol home each morning, eating it as he drives [...]

SRJC’s splendid indoor pool is clean again but young competitive swimmers from as far off as Eureka still are shaking off a disgusting stunt by two Marin County boys that ruined a huge championship swim meet.   More than 600 kids who’d come to town over the Martin Luther King [...]