Still Looking for an Appropriate New Year’s Resolution for 2024 – We Found the Perfect Fit for Mill Valley Residents!

Still Looking for an Appropriate New Year’s Resolution for 2024 – We Found the Perfect Fit for Mill Valley Residents!

Here’s a great New Year’s Resolution idea from Melissa Kirsch, the deputy editor of Culture and Lifestyle at The New York Times and writer of its Saturday newsletter. My resolutions are typically of this variety: self-criticism disguised as...
Mill Valley Lumber Yard Hosts a Bonanza of Fun Events for this Holiday Season – Dec. 7-10

Mill Valley Lumber Yard Hosts a Bonanza of Fun Events for this Holiday Season – Dec. 7-10

The Mill Valley Lumber Yard Holiday Faire is back! Feel the winter spirit and join us December 7-10th for live music, unique holiday shopping, photos with Santa, a dog parade, crafts, delicious food, warm drinks and a seat by the fire pit to enjoy the festivities....
Flour Craft Bakery Mourns the Loss of a Longtime Staffer’s Tragic Loss of His Brother, Posts GoFundMe to Support the Family

Flour Craft Bakery Mourns the Loss of a Longtime Staffer’s Tragic Loss of His Brother, Posts GoFundMe to Support the Family

In April 2018, when Heather Hardcastle and her husband Rick Perko opened the second location of their gluten-free Flour Craft Bakery at the Mill Valley Lumber Yard, they did so with the intent to use the new space as a platform to expand their offerings to “be a more...
Polls Are Open: Vote For Your Favorite MV Businesses & Organizations in the Marin IJ’s 2024 Readers’ Choice Awards

Polls Are Open: Vote For Your Favorite MV Businesses & Organizations in the Marin IJ’s 2024 Readers’ Choice Awards

In 2023, the Mill Valley Chamber and its member businesses across an array of categories racked up accolades in the Marin Independent Journal’s second annual Readers’ Choice Awards. The IJ launched its third annual edition of the contest this week. Go vote for your...
SF Chronicle Highlights Bay Area Death Care Workers Who’ve Charted Unconventional Paths in the Industry, Including Mill Valley’s Serene, Natural Fernwood Cemetery

SF Chronicle Highlights Bay Area Death Care Workers Who’ve Charted Unconventional Paths in the Industry, Including Mill Valley’s Serene, Natural Fernwood Cemetery

Tyler Cassity, owner of Fernwood Cemetery in Mill Valley near the entrance to Tam Junction, says that working in the death care industry changes you. “It can do two things, and it’s probably done both to me,” Cassity told the San Francisco Chronicle last month....
Dazzled by the Mill Valley Lumber Yard, Amanda and Richard Weld Expand their Ultra-Creative Tantrum Shop to Mill Valley

Dazzled by the Mill Valley Lumber Yard, Amanda and Richard Weld Expand their Ultra-Creative Tantrum Shop to Mill Valley

They might not be in the music industry, but the Mathews family – the driving force behind the massive, brilliantly re-envisioned adaptation of the Mill Valley Lumber Yard starting in 2012 – knows a hit when they see one.  The latest example of that happened in the...