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Marin’s move to the Yellow Tier today will likely be brief as we go ‘Beyond the Blueprint’ on June 15. Stuck on pause in the orange tier within the statewide Blueprint for a Safer Economy framework since March 24, Marin is now able to move to the less restrictive yellow tier as of June 1, Marin County Public Health Officer…

A post from longtime Mill Valley resident Bob Emrich, owner of Bob’s Tree Service: “I started a tree business in Mill Valley three-plus years ago, and I have never looked back. It has been a great experience, and the best part is the people I meet in this cool town of ours. One of them…

Special 2021 Memorial Day Parade video will GO LIVE HERE at 10am on Monday, May 31st. Here it is:  Scenes from the 2019 Mill Valley Memorial Day Parade. Photos by Suz Lipman and Daniel Patrick. To the Mill Valley Community, While we’re sure everyone is disappointed because there will be no parade this year, The…

Have you ever found yourself looking at a building downtown, admired its architecture and wondered what it looked like in the past? What businesses were there before? Mapping Mill Valley History is a new project that invites you to tour familiar streets and buildings and see how they have evolved over the years. It’s a…

Mill Valley, July 2020. In a conversation earlier this month with Marin leaders and experts in the hospitality industry, urban designer John Bela made the case for shared spaces like parklets and street closures as “physical elements of community that act as a conduit to bring people together and build social capital through recurring interactions.”  When dozens of cities converted…

Mill Valley Music shop owner Gary Scheuenstuhl’s past 15-plus months have been about adaptation to conditions beyond his control. But there have also been pandemic-fueled enhancements: more people stuck at home, ready to dog into their music collection and, most importantly, ready to expand on those collections. On June 12th and July 17th, Scheuenstuhl will have a chance to…

The CineArts Sequoia Theatre. Photo by Kirke Wrench. Debbie Reynolds said it best: “I’m a sucker for a good movie.” On the heels of a brutally long stoppage since the first shelter-in-place order in March, with an incredibly brief reopening in summer 2020, the CineArts Sequoia movie theater, which opened as a single screen theater in February 1929,…

Since his arrival in Mill Valley in 1974, Larry “the Hat” Lautzker, purveyor of hip apparel, producer of an array of live concerts as well as some of the 94941’s most cherished events, including the Mill Valley Memorial Day Parade and the Community Block Party for more than 15 years, has been a force of nature…

After more than a year in which we haven’t been able to gather together to revel in the power of the arts, we won’t be able to toast the creators and supporters of that art, as the organizers of the Milley Awards, Mill Valley’s annual celebration of the community’s vast  creative achievement and distinguished accomplishments in the…

Marin’s likely move to the Yellow Tier on June 1 will likely be brief as we move ‘Beyond the Blueprint’ on June 15. A packed house at the Sweetwater Music Hall in 2019. Six weeks after Marin County Public Health Officer Dr. Matt Willis told the Board of Supervisors that Marin could move into the…