By Dr. Nancy Lang Dr. Jane Goodall changed the world. Her life's work — redefining how we understand animals and inspiring generations to protect the natural world — has touched every corner of conservation. News of her passing at age 91 on October 1, while on a speaking tour in California, has left us deeply| Sonoma Valley Sun - The Community's Independent Voice
The story of Sonoma's Seth Donnelly is the story of the making of an activist. Anna Pier sat down with the high school teacher who has spent the last year at the helm of Taxpayers against Genocide in Gaza (TAG). Your background? I grew up in a household of activists. My parents, Sara and John| Sonoma Valley Sun - The Community's Independent Voice
And a Farmer Daughter Who Also Welds By David Bolling The idea was to profile the latest member of the local farm-to-table family, a tidy eight-acre spread called Flatbed Farm, sitting on Highway 12 hard up against the Sonoma Valley Regional Park and across the road from Bouverie Preserve. Parked in a very nice agricultural| Sonoma Valley Sun - The Community's Independent Voice
By Ryan Sabalow This article was originally published by CalMatters A new California law aims to keep more short children in booster seats for longer, imposing fines if they can’t properly wear their seat belt. Last week, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a watered-down version of Assembly Bill 435 that originally proposed to ban smaller teenagers from sitting in the| Sonoma Valley Sun - The Community's Independent Voice
It is frequently described as the shortest parade in the Sonoma Valley, probably in all of Sonoma County, quite possibly in the Greater Bay Area, and maybe in the Known Universe. It starts with a three-person honor guard and finishes with the last of several fire trucks. In between are custom cars, howling wolves, beauty| Sonoma Valley Sun - The Community's Independent Voice
I was standing in the Cherry Block vineyard, once the pride and legacy of the Sebastiani family, reaching back 100 years into a family history every non-family resident knows by heart, as if they owned it. It was mid-August and Sam Sebastiani had just pulled a fat cabernet grape off a sagging cluster and was| Sonoma Valley Sun - The Community's Independent Voice
