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Restaurant owners from Mill Valley and all over Marin County threw their weight this week behind a Change.org petition crafted by Dustin Sullivan, owner of Guesthouse in Kentfield. In doing so, they sought a reconsideration of the current ban on outdoor dining for any region whose intensive care unit capacity has dipped below 15 percent…

While most Americans consider Abraham Lincoln one of our nation’s greatest heroes, some ridicule him as a country bumpkin or decry him as a dictator. And while most historians see the “Great Emancipator” as a champion of freedom for African Americans, some view him as a racist and hypocrite. A presentation via the Outdoor Art…

Through the spring and summer of 2020, the Mill Valley community locked arms with local small businesses, donating to the Chamber’s COVID-19 Mill Valley Business Fund, our campaign to raise funds for as many $1,000 direct cash grants as possible at a moment of crisis amidst the pandemic. You donated, en masse, raising nearly $100,000 to support almost…

​It took federal lawmakers seven months to reach an agreement on a desperately needed second round of stimulus to help ease the horrific impacts of the COVID-19 crisis. But they finally did just that this week, and President Trump is expected to sign it Tuesday. The widespread hope is that the $900 billion stimulus package…

“Isfahan” by Shiva Pakdel. Courtesy image. In the midst of a global pandemic, there certainly has been a dearth of the “meaningful, hopeful and beautiful” in 2020. But for its first exhibit in 2021, Marin Museum of Contemporary Art is ready to shine a light on the amazing art that has been brought forth during…

Mountain Play. Courtesy image. As we’ve been reporting for the duration of the COVID-19 crisis, few sectors of our local economy have been hit harder than arts organizations, which have been thrashed by their complete inability to gather people in a room to experience art, live music and performance since mid-March.  In recognition of that fact, the Marin…

Laura Eberhard, medical director of the ICU at Kaiser Permanente San Rafael Medical Center, stood at the epicenter of the two polar extremes of COVID-19 crisis news this week. On one hand, the arrival of the first batch of vaccines, reserved for health-care workers, first responders and long-term care facility residents, “is a really historic day”…

Famous4, Margaret O’Leary, Ambatalia, Mike’s Cameras, Jolly King, Pollen + Wool and Poet and/the Bench are among the participating businesses at this holiday shopping experience.  Running behind on your holiday shopping? Want to Shop Local AND do so from the comfort of your couch? We’ve got you covered. Inspired by our friends in Sausalito, the…

The Mill Valley Chamber provides an array of benefits to its members, including education, advocacy, a communications pipeline that directly connects to the broader 94941 via maps, magazines the Enjoy Milll Valley Blog, as well as networking (virtually now and physically when we’re able to be together) and much more. Among those benefits is a…

Throckmorton Theatre, June 2020. Dear Mill Valley Community, We hope you are safe and well as the holidays begin and this challenging year comes to a close. When my husband, Bruce, and I joined the board of the Throckmorton Theatre earlier this year, the world had just changed forever and the theatre had gone dark.…