Glen Ellen News

A Sonoma Valley residents have dug into their pocketbooks this election cycle, donating over $300,000 to Congressional and national campaigns, according to a new campaign finance database put together by Huffington Post .

Unfamiliar words. But they shouldn't be. We're surrounded by them morning, noon and night, say ecologist Bryan Pijanowski of Purdue University and colleagues.

ENVOLVE ALERT! Ramekins Culinary School & Inn in Sonoma, California will be hosting Envolve Winery's Winemaker Dinner - NEXT WEEK! Attendees will be able to taste Envolve wines, chat with Ben Flajnik, Mike Benziger and Danny Fay while enjoying a four-course meal created by Ramekins Executive Chef Doug MacFarland.

Sonoma County officials are set to take their first formal step next week in a bid to assume operation of Annadel State Park.

Plans are shaping up for the launch of The Glen Ellen Star this April in the former Saffron space in Glen Ellen.

The North Bay loves its pizzas, oh yes. So lucky for us, Glen Ellen Star , which takes over Glen Ellen's former Saffron Mediterranean restaurant downtown this spring, is focusing on a wood-fire oven featuring pizzas, as well as wood-fire grilling in the Argentine style.

In honor of Restaurant Week , I've come up with my picks for top restaurants in, and around, Sonoma.

For almost all of their 12 seasons, ABC's reality TV shows "The Bachelor" and "The Bachelorette" were primarily filmed at a Spanish-style estate called "Villa de la Vina." Nestled in the Santa Monica Mountains of Southern California, this stucco-walled estate was the base of operations for the women and men vying to win the hearts of ABC's ... (more)