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As We Creep Into Year Three, Mill Valley Has Shown Innovation & Resilience in Spades
Mill Valley examples of creativity and innovation amidst crisis abound over the past nearly three years of the pandemic, from how the community continued to embrace the outdoors for al fresco everything, including street closures that infused the downtown with vitality.
Read MoreThese New CA Laws Went Into Effect on Jan. 1 – Here Are Some That Might Affect You
It’s easy to get lost in the avalanche of new legislation, so here’s a curated list of new laws of import to Mill Valley residents and businesses. For starters, Newsom signed a trio of pieces that allow restaurants and bars to expand outdoor and parklet service and alcohol sales, and to continue selling to-go alcoholic beverages.
Read MoreMV Chamber Music Society Rolls Into 2022 With Ilya Yakushev – Jan. 23
The Mill Valley Chamber Music Society continues its season this month with a performance by Russian pianist Ilya Yakushev, who has garnered myriad awards and honors over the years.
Read MoreMill Valley-Based Financial Services Firm Brouwer & Janachowski Merges With Cerity Partners
A pair of longtime Bay Area financial services firms, Cerity Partners and Mill Valley-based Brouwer & Janachowski announced their merger this week.
Read MorePhotographer Josie Iselin Talks ‘The Curious World of Seaweed’ at Virtual OAC – Jan. 20
Iselin will talk about how she designs public spaces to enrich positive energy and celebrate the people, histories, challenges, and richness that exist in surrounding communities, expressing the narrative of a neighborhood from the point of view of the people who live there.
Read MoreA Mill Valley Year in Review: Joy, Pain, Sunshine…What Else? (Lately), Plenty of Much-Needed Rain
As we near the third year of an absolutely relentless, seemingly never-ending and ever-changing global pandemic, it can be difficult to take it all in, to view 2021 with a macro-level perspective, particularly as we are currently awash in the incredibly transmissible Omicron variant. Here’s as good a starting point as any: holy sh** vaccines are an absolute wonder!
Read MoreWith Omicron on the Rise, Sweetwater Music Hall Opts for Short-Term Closure
The temporary closure means that a few regular holiday shows, like those by the renowned Christmas Jug Band and local stalwart Matt Jaffe have been canceled. Refunds will be issued at the point of purchase, according to Sweetwater officials.
Read MoreLongtime MV Resident Opens Paseo: A California Bistro in Historic Space
In the case of longtime Mill Valley resident Ki Yong Choi, the wait in the midst of a global pandemic has been interminable at times, but it sure is great to be the one to re-open one of Mill Valley’s iconic restaurants, set in the historic El Paseo space at 17 Throckmorton Avenue.
Read MoreWinterfest Holiday Hunt Continues Thru Dec. 17 – More Clues, and Answers, Below
While we ready the return of an in-person Winterfest, we’re bringing back last year’s quasi-virtual, hugely popular Winterfest Holiday Hunt, a three-week, scavenger hunt-style contest at dozens of businesses throughout Mill Valley. Kids accompanied by a parent can travel around town, preferably by bike or on foot, to take photos of iridescent stars, as selfies in front of the stars they choose, in at least eight of the 40 participating businesses, including some amazing local restaurants and retail shops.
Read MoreThe Grateful Dog PlayCare Has Survived – and – Thrived Through the Pandemic
The Cervantes’ kept both locations open with extended hours through those fraught months of 2020, and created so much goodwill among their clients that they were featured in a KRON4 television news segment.
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