Sewer

Sonoma County plans to track drug use through sewer testing. Is that legal?

Sonoma County is quietly stepping into a new form of public health surveillance: testing wastewater to estimate community drug use. The county’s Department of Health Services has begun sampling sewage at major treatment plants and analyzing it for traces of drugs like fentanyl, methamphetamine, cocaine, nicotine and xylazine, sometimes called “tranq.” …
Taxapp

Tax season is coming. A Sonoma County app fills a quiet gap

As tax season approaches, many Sonoma County farmers, ranchers and small business owners are facing a new challenge they did not expect. Last year, Intuit discontinued ItsDeductible, a long-running tool that helped taxpayers track charitable donations and estimate fair-market values for donated goods. For years, it quietly helped people document everything …
Homeless man

Before dawn, Sonoma County counts who is still awake

Every year there’s the bird count. People bundle up, grab binoculars and head out at dawn, quietly thrilled by a flash of wings or the chance to say, “That was definitely a kestrel.” It’s wholesome. It’s nerdy. It’s very cool. This morning, Sonoma County did a different kind of count. Instead …
New Soso site

Kenwood site tapped for planned Soho House resort

The private members club plans a resort near Kenwood featuring cottages, dining and wellness facilities, with an opening targeted for 2027. If you’ve been half-paying attention to Sonoma Valley lately, you know it’s been quietly doing its thing while Napa and Healdsburg grab the headlines. But this week brought news that …






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A PATTERN CHANGE TO COLD AND RAINY

News of North Bay

Three graphics show how California will enter a colder, wetter, snowier period from the 10th to the 22nd of February.


RAIN RETURNS TO CALIFORNIA

News of North Bay

HERE COMES THE RAIN After a four week mid-winter dry spell, rain will return to California early in the coming week. It will start slow, but the weekend of February 14-15 looks to be quite wet across much of the…


Bomb Alert At Sonoma State

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Sonoma’s bestsellers

Sonoma Index-Tribune

Top titles at Sonoma’s local bookstore, Readers’ Books, this week.