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In the years since Mill Valley Lumber Yard opened, it’s become a multi-faceted community gathering space and retail and foodie destination. Its spaces span an array of uses, including the much-lauded Watershed Restaurant from Ged Robertson and Kyle Swain, Flour Craft Bakery from Heather Hardcastle and Rick Perko, Stacy King’s Lulu Design Jewelry, Louise Dockstader’s Once Around, Mad Dogs & Englishman, an innovative, creative…

Like every commercial hub in Mill Valley, the owners of the Strawberry Village shopping center are looking to provide some excitement to their customers within the constraints of, well….you know. To that end, they’ve launched a number of creative contests, campaigns and drives to help those in need. The businesses within Strawberry Village are also serving up an…

Those were the days: Bob Weir and Michael Franti jam at the Sweetwater Music Hall. Photo by Jay Blakesberg. Regular readers of this space know that while every Mill Valley business has been economically ravaged by the COVID-19 crisis, few have suffered more than the likes of the Sweetwater Music Hall, Throckmorton Theatre and Marin Theatre Company. Each organization has managed…

Piazza D’Angelo owners Luigi Petrone, at left, and Felicia Ferguson, at right. ​In a note Friday to its customers and the larger 94941 community, Piazza D’Angelo owners Luigi Petrone and Felicia Ferguson announced that they were closing their restaurant “until the stay-at-home ordinance is lifted on Jan 4,” “due to the recent spike in COVID-19…

California launched its new contact tracing system, CA Notify, on Dec. 10. It’s essentially a smartphone feature you can opt into that will notify you of potential coronavirus exposure by using Bluetooth to detect which phones have been within several feet of one another for a certain amount of time. If someone tests positive, that person…

Youth sports organizations that can play outside were among the few who could breathe a sigh of relief after the Bay Area’s pre-emptive iteration on the state’s Stay-at-Home order went into effect Dec. 8. Dave Fromer Soccer was among them. The organization unveiled its Winter Soccer 2021 Program this week, an outdoor program held on a…

No need to mince words here: With the month-long Stay-at-Home Order taking effect this week, many of Mill Valley’s most critically important business sectors – restaurants and food-serving businesses, personal service providers like hair and nail salons and fitness facilities, all of whom will be operating at a tiny fraction of their usual business model…

Renderings of Phil Richardson’s proposed project at 575 East Blithedale. Courtesy images. The City of Mill Valley’s Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Task Force unveiled its full report and recommendations Monday evening in the form of a 93-page, 28-recommendation, multiple ”wow”-inducing document that spanned an array of topics, including our community’s lack of affordable housing. “Whites-only subdivisions, redlining, and other…

​”Restaurants can’t survive on takeout, it’s a bandaid on a severed leg.” Outdoor dining on Miller Avenue. Throughout the COVID-19 crisis, the EMV Blog has been beating the drum on behalf of all Mill Valley businesses. But few have been hit as hard, and as often, as our local restaurants. And are as much of…

City Council pledges to take quick action on a exhaustive report that ​spans affordable housing, cultural and recreational engagement, economic opportunity, education and policing, the latter of which was the focus of 13 of the 28 recommendations. Mill Valley’s DEI Task Force members. In August, as the City of Mill Valley unveiled its choice of Dr.…