Elias Fotou, 13, of Petaluma makes a gingerbread house at the Gingerbread Doghouse Workshop at the Charles M. Schulz Museum in Santa Rosa, California. (photo by Ramin Rahimian, 2011)

Gingerbread Contest

Traditional gingerbread houses go upscale in Sonoma, Dec. 1 to 31.

The Petaluma Holiday Lighted Boat Parade illuminates the Petaluma River Turning Basin. (photo by Kent Porter, 2012)

Petaluma Lighted Boat Parade

A flotilla of decorated, lighted vessels will gather at Petaluma Turning Basin on Dec. 7

The Mission San Francisco Solano in Sonoma. Photo: Kent Porter

A Mission Christmas

Celebrating the season inside Sonoma's historic mission

Oktoberfests 2013

It's almost Oktober. You know what that means...