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Where's Waldo? Right Before Your Eyes
Readers Books just off the Plaza is spearheading a city-wide contest this month that turns a two-dimensional hide-and-seek book into a three-dimensional scavenger hunt all over Sonoma. That would be...
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Bad Panda? Santa Cruz DA Reviewing Sandoval Case
Santa Cruz County's district attorney said he is reviewing the sheriff's decision not to arrest San Francisco Giants player Pablo Sandoval in connection with a woman's claim that he sexually assaulted...
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Spare the Air Day Gets an Extension
While many people in Sonoma County might not have been aware, Tuesday was a Spare the Air day in the Bay Area and some of our surrounding counties. During the summer the Air District will post Spare...
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Napa-to-Sonoma Wine Country Half Marathon on Sunday
This weekend, locals and visitors will enjoy cooler weather, morning fog and a passel of brightly-dressed competitors on the highways and byways of the wine country, participating in this year's...
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Grass Fire Near El Verano Sparks Fears of Arsonist
Firemen from Sonoma and Marin counties converged on the dead-end stretch of Grove St., west of the township of El Verano, to quench a grass fire that erupted shortly before 4 p.m. A cloud of smoke was...
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Shooting Injury Leads to Grow Discovery
Tuesday evening at 10:37, Sonoma County Sheriff deputies were dispatched to Calistoga Rd. and Hwy. 12, at the west end of Sonoma Valley, to meet a gunshot victim who had accidentally shot himself in...
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"Spare the Air" Day Announced for Third Straight Day
The Bay Area Air Quality Management District has expanded the Spare the Air Alert to Thursday, July 12. This marks the fourth alert this summer. The district officials are encouraging Bay Area and...
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Celebrating Catalonia in Carneros, July 21-22
The first European on record to find the San Francisco Bay was a Catalan called Gaspar de Portolà, in 1769. Perhaps you've heard the name. They're still celebrating his visit, and all things Catalan,...
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Cause Undetermined in Pair of Grass Fires
Two fires have erupted within the last five days along Grove Street near El Verano and in both cases the cause of the fires has been undetermined. Sonoma Fire Marshal Alan Jones said fire...
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Pooch Promenade to Spark Bark in the Park
Our current Cutest Dog Contest on Sonoma Patch is proof, if any were needed, that people love their pets. It's been the most popular story all week, generating a dozen contestants and an ever-rising...
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Nominations Closed for Readers Choice, But the Voting is Yet to Begin
Remember all those Readers Choice stories we sprung on you a few weeks ago? We asked for your nominations for the best of Sonoma in a multitude of categories, from Best Auto Mechanic to Best...
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State's Ban on Foie Gras Prompts French Boycott
The state-wide ban on foie gras, the goose liver delicacy emblematic of fine dining, has prompted a backlash in France. The move so outraged a politician in the Gers region near the Pyrenees...
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From Bastille to Boules, Sonoma Shows Its French Side
As tout le monde knows, Saturday is Bastille Day, July 14. It's the French equivalent of the Fourth of July, marking the date when hundreds Parisians stormed the Bastille prison to demand the...
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Amateur Radio Club Drills for Emergency Preparedness
by Jane Courtney Whether it’s ravaging floods, raging fire or a devastating earthquake, vital information on the incident will be made available to emergency personnel and the public when amateur...
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Community Cafe Keeps Its Focus Local
Community Café is a name that evokes home cooking, local customers and maybe a sense of belonging. For Margie Brooke, that's right pretty much across the board. "It's called Community Café because...
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Centre du Vin Toasts Everything French
As Bastille Day approaches, there’s reason to celebrate at Centre du Vin, a French Bistro at the Ledson Hotel in the heart of the historic Sonoma Plaza. Master craftsman, vintner and philanthropist...
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Advertising Jobs Open with Patch on the San Francisco Peninsula and...
Patch wants to hire a few "rock star" advertising managers with local online advertising sales experience. Patch provides news and information on more than two dozen community websites all around the...
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What Are People Recommending on Facebook?
Some readers first come to Sonoma Patch through our Facebook page, and for some it's the other way around. Either way it goes, it's still a conversatoin. Are you missing out on the conversation? Like...
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Taking a TV Tour of Sonoma with 'Eye on the Bay'
Several locals reported seeing cameras and a vaguely familiar if overtly friendly face in town a couple weekends ago, before all that 4th of July holiday hoopla. Turns out that was Liam Mayclem of CBS...
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