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Since she made the difficult decision to close her BŌL superfood cafe in the Mill Valley Lumber Yard on March 17, Chelsea Hutchison struggled, like so many Mill Valley small business owners, to make sense of it all. “I have two young kids and without school, our little family had to adjust quickly,” she says. “This past…

And if that’s not enough, Tarr is launching “50 Jackets for 50 Strong Women,” giving 50 of her jackets to 50 women nominated as serving on the front lines of the Covid-19 crisis. DM nominations via her Instagram. Mill Valley fashion designer J’Amy Tarr, at top and bottom left, along with some of her Apple…

[UPDATE 4.9.20]: To date, these campaigns have raised more than $171,000 to support the employees at these restaurants. And in a pair of campaigns to both support workers AND feed first responders, Feed the Frontlines has raised more than $27k and BOL’s Pay It Forward Meals has raised more than $7,600. Keep going Mill Valley!…

In case the specter of the coronavirus outbreak hadn’t hit home for everyone in Marin, a potent reminder arrived this week, as Marin County’s public health officer tested positive and offered an urgent message to others in his community. In a video message recorded Sunday night, Dr. Matt Willis announced that he tested positive for…

In response to the economic, health, and community wellness impacts of the Coronavirus outbreak and related shelter-in-place directives, Redwood Credit Union (RCU) is distributing grants to more than 45 nonprofit organizations across Lake, Marin, Mendocino, Napa, San Francisco, and Sonoma Counties, including 10 recipients in Marin. The grants intend to serve the most pressing needs of…

Larry Brilliant at Spotlight Health Aspen Ideas Festival 2015. Photo by Lane Rasberry, licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International. Most of us have spent the past several weeks processing reams of information about COVID-19, a virus that appears to have caught leaders across the globe flat-footed and steamrolled its way into becoming…

Under the shelter in place order, churches are closed. But that’s not preventing worship. Mt. Tam United Methodist Church Pastor Kim Smith informed parishioners and the larger community this week that church officials were launching ‘At Home & Together,” a move to virtual gatherings via Zoom and Facebook Live. “Although we are all at home,…

On the heels of canceling its production of Love earlier this month due to the the shelter in place order, Marin Theatre Company has changed its long-planned April 4th gala at the Community Center to Virtual Gala53!, an entirely digital, silent, live and wine auction. Guests can now preview auction items online and register for online…

In the five days since Bay Area counties issued a shelter in place order that effectively shut down hundreds of businesses and compelled restaurants to transition to take and delivery service only, many restaurant workers have found themselves in a scary, tumultuous moment of job insecurity. But the tumult is bringing out the best in…

Following the recommendation of the Marin County Department of Health and Human Services, a number of Mill Valley grocery stores are stepping up to offer people 65 or older being more vulnerable to the coronavirus, or COVID-19, a dedicated a period of time in the morning to shop. “Although this is not a mandate, it is a…