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Downtown Businesses Rally for a Sip, Shop & Stroll Around Town Visiting Some of Your Favorite Businesses, Who will be Offering Festive Drinks, Treats, Services, Discounts, and Much More!

Join more than 20 businesses on December 12th for the Downtown Holiday Bash! Sip, shop, and stroll around town visiting some of your favorite businesses, who will be offering festive drinks, treats, services, discounts, and much more! Each participating business will be handing you entry tickets for a chance to win one of more than $1500 in raffle prizes supplied by our great downtown shops and stores. The more visits from you, the more chances you will have to win! Come out for a fun night and support your local small businesses in Mill Valley!

CEO Monthly Magazine Names Mindful Life, Mindful Work Inc’s Jonathan Reynolds 2024 CEO of the Year for the Region of California in the Category of ‘Mindfulness and Wellbeing’!

Over the years, Reynolds has worked with everyone from lower level employees who need help with “negotiating, leveraging and positioning” their way up the food chain to companies that reach to work with their entire “C-Suite” of executives. “It’s all about people, pay and purpose – the culture, the money and the reason you get out bed in the morning,” he says. Reynolds’ leap occurred around the time that mindfulness meditation became wildly popular and catapulted into a billion-dollar business, according to Fortune magazine.

Mill Valley Mercantile, a Longtime and Wildly Successful Boutique in Downtown Mill Valley, Has a Pair of New Owners in The Goods’ Kelly Scott & Seager Gray’s Suzanne Gray!

Kelly Scott, a longtime ultra-creative downtown Mill Valley retailer and owner of The Goods, has regularly used her imagination to expand on the palette at her shop at 6 Miller. Now Scott is partnering with Suzanne Gray, a huge figure in the Bay Area gallery business, to take the reins at Mill Valley Mercantile, a staple in the downtown boutique community that has long been known as a family-owned women’s clothing boutique that has been a cherished destination for fashion enthusiasts for over two decades.

Mill Valley Winterfest Was an Absolute Blast and a Tremendous Way to Kick Off the Holiday Season! See You Again on Dec. 7th, 2025 on the Plaza!

Winterfest, the 94941’s annual holiday celebration produced by the Mill Valley Chamber and Organized Chaos Events, returned to the Downtown Plaza on December 8th, drawing another massive outpouring of residents, participants and friends. The event was once again an absolute blockbuster, with more than 1,000 locals and friends gathering on the plaza throughout the day and an evening of good cheer, including performances from the Happy Feet Tap Dancers, Rita & the Cosmos, Roco Dance & Fitness for thrilling performances of both hip-hop and contemporary dance, as well as the duo of Ellie McKee and Andrew McKee, who performed a broad array of both holiday tunes and classics through a bulk of the afternoon. We invited Santa on stage following his arrival in a beautiful convertible, and then he dashed off to his throne to greet the children. The beautiful Elecrtic Train kept kiddos and their families busy and happy throughout the day.

Sweetwater Music Hall Rolls Into the Holidays With a Quintet of Dynamite Holiday Shows!

The Sweetwater Music Hall – Mill Valley’s venerable live music institution and one of the most exciting live music venues in Bay Area history – has, as always, lined up a monster lineup of holiday shows as we head into the final weeks of 2024.
First up is Jason Crosby & Friends’ Tribute to Vince Guaraldi’s ‘A Charlie Brown Christmas, set for Dec. 15th, with shows at both 1pm and 7pm. Four days later, the legendary Christmas Jug Band storms into the Sweetwater on Dec. 19th for an 8pm show. And on the next day, Maria Muldaur and Her Jazzabelle Quintet on Dec. 20th. The 85’s wrap up the holiday season with The 85’s, but not before Hot Buttered Rum featuring Jessica Malone and Hattie Craven.

‘Unprecedented’ Housing Project at Seminary in Strawberry Moves Forward Amid Neighbor Pushback

Famed architect Mark Cavagnero, who designed the project, did not return calls seeking comment, but he told the Chronicle in 2019 that the fight has “been a big, big, big taste of NIMBYism the likes of which I’ve never experienced.” “There is no property anywhere near this size anywhere in southern Marin, if not all of Marin, that would be available and zoned for housing,” Cavagnero said at the time. “This is important not only for the housing we can build — workforce housing, affordable housing, senior housing — but also on an exemplary basis.”

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Marin IJ: Mill Valley Marsh Restoration Effort Lands $670,000 Grant

“The marsh itself is currently drowning through this muted tidal effect,” said Rob LaPorte, a project manager at the conservancy. “It takes longer for the tides to drain from the marsh than a normal functioning marsh.” “So we’re losing vegetation and we’re losing whole sections of the marsh to wave erosion,” he said. “We’re making sure we get a project implemented as fast as possible in order to restore the marsh and all of the rare wildlife and plants it supports.”

SF Chronicle: Here are 21 New Laws that Californians Must Start Following in 2025

“For the past six years, through boom, bust and pandemic, California’s Legislature has ended each session with a blitz of new laws that aim to make housing more plentiful and affordable.

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