Amidst Supply Chain Insanity, Get Out of the House For Some In-Person Shopping That Lifts Up Your Community!

Amidst Supply Chain Insanity, Get Out of the House For Some In-Person Shopping That Lifts Up Your Community!

by | Dec 5, 2021 | Art, Depot Plaza, Downtown Mill Valley, Food & Drink, Health & Wellness, Holidays, Kids, Mill Valley Lumber Yard, Miller Avenue, Restaurants, Shopping, Strawberry Village, Tam Junction

When did we stop shopping for surprise holiday gifts for our loved ones? That’s the question that New York Times opinion writer Margaret Renkl posed to her readers this week, lamenting the shift, long before the pandemic, to gift-giving via quite literally...
As the Popularity of E-Bikes Continues to Surge, Mill Valley Basks in Having Two of the Best in the Bay Area

As the Popularity of E-Bikes Continues to Surge, Mill Valley Basks in Having Two of the Best in the Bay Area

by | Dec 5, 2021 | Health & Wellness, Kids, Mill Valley Lumber Yard, Miller Avenue, Mount Tamalpais, Parks & Recreation

A selection of bikes from Tam Bikes and Mad Dog & Englishmen. Courtesy images. As is evident from a stroll on Miller Avenue or the Mill Valley-Sausalito multi-use path just about any time of day, the popularity of e-bikes has exploded in recent years, and looks to...
Amidst Supply Chain Insanity, Get Out of the House For Some In-Person Shopping That Lifts Up Your Community!

The Case to #ShopMV: NY Times’ Wirecutter Says Shopping Local Returns 3x More Money to the Local Economy

by | Dec 5, 2021 | Art, Arts & Entertainment, Downtown Mill Valley, Food & Drink, Health & Wellness, Holidays, Kids, Live Music, Marin Theatre Company, Mill Valley Lumber Yard, Mill Valley Market, Miller Avenue, Restaurants, Shopping, Sports, Strawberry Village, Sweetwater Music Hall

We’ve been making the case to #ShopMV in this space for years, reminding our neighbors that when you eat, shop or use a local service, you are investing in our local economy. Business taxes fuel our increasingly challenged city budgets. Local business...
A Coalition of Creative Mill Valley History and Train Buffs Hopes to Expand Plaza to Include the Historic Engine No. 9 – Here’s How You Can Support Them

A Coalition of Creative Mill Valley History and Train Buffs Hopes to Expand Plaza to Include the Historic Engine No. 9 – Here’s How You Can Support Them

by | Nov 11, 2021 | City of Mill Valley, Depot Plaza, Downtown Mill Valley, Kids, Mill Valley History, Mill Valley Lumber Yard, Philanthropy, Volunteerism

Engine No. 9 As we’ve been reporting regularly over the past three years, Friends of No. 9, the organization formed by the Mill Valley Historical Society, Friends of Mt. Tam, Marin History Museum and others, purchased the Engine No. 9, the only surviving piece...
Makers Market’s 2021 Open Artisan Faires Roll On – Nov. 12 & Dec. 11

Makers Market’s 2021 Open Artisan Faires Roll On – Nov. 12 & Dec. 11

by | Nov 2, 2021 | Art, Arts & Entertainment, Downtown Mill Valley, Food & Drink, Live Music, Mill Valley Lumber Yard, Miller Avenue, Pets, Restaurants, Shopping

Makers Market at MVLY Fall has arrived and Makers Market‘s regular series of monthly Open Air Artisan Faires at the Mill Valley Lumber Yard continues Nov. 13 from 11am-5pm, featuring “a lovely group of local makers selling jewelry, natural skin care, candles,...
‘Mapping MV History’ Digs Into the Landmark Mill Valley Lumber Yard

‘Mapping MV History’ Digs Into the Landmark Mill Valley Lumber Yard

by | Oct 25, 2021 | Art, Arts & Entertainment, Downtown Mill Valley, Food & Drink, Kids, Live Music, Mill Valley History, Mill Valley Lumber Yard, Miller Avenue, Public Restrooms, Restaurants, Shopping

The 129-year-old Mill Valley Lumber Yard is one of the oldest landmarks in town and the history of the property is integral to the history of the City of Mill Valley itself. Founded concurrent with the late-19th century origins of Mill Valley and located along one of...