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Eric Zener and Ken Arciga have launched Shopvine, an app-baed notification system designed to connect shops and their products to customers. Courtesy images. Shopvine in the app store. Email newsletters, Instagram and social media platforms du jour, FaceTime and video chats – these are among the array of ways that Mill Valley retailers have been…

MVFF won’t have a physical presence in Mill Valley for the first time in its history. Images from the first batch of films announce as part of the 43rd Mill Valley Film Festival. Courtesy images. In a year like no other in recent history, the 43rd Mill Valley Film Festival will be unlike any of…

Ayad Akhtar. Marin Theatre Company has long cultivated theatrical talent and relationships far beyond its immediate purview in Mill Valley. ​MTC Artistic Director Jasson Minadakis and his team got another reminder of that fact this week when playwright and novelist Ayad Akhtar, whose plays Invisible Hand and The Who & the What wowed audiences in 2016…

Submitted by the Outdoor Art Club and written by Lynda Chittenden with research provided by Melissa Kurtz. Looking at the 1918 image at left of a few Mill Valley residents waiting for the train on Miller Avenue, we imagine their world was similar to ours today. An Influenza pandemic had made it necessary to wear…

Makers Market‘s regular series of outdoor markets at the Mill Valley Lumber Yard returns this weekend as owner Suzy Ekman and her team are continuing to dip their toes back into outdoor, socially distanced gatherings with a “Meet the Artists” event on Saturday, September 12 from 10am-6pm. The event features an array of local artists and makers, with whom attendees…

For the second year in a row, the good folks at Clean Mill Valley and the Outdoor Art Club are teaming up to clean up Boyle Park. The event is set for Friday, October 16th, 10am to 12:30pm. “Be part of this fun and rewarding community service activity!” OAC officials said in an email to its members.” Join…

Per Marin County Public Health and Marin Recovers officials, news on Marin’s tier adjudication process with the state of California won’t be updated until Sunday, Sept. 13. We’ll update as soon as we get word. On the eve of Tuesday’s expected reopening of an array of business sectors in Marin for the first time since…

A rendering of a 9-unit project proposed for 500 Miller Avenue. It’s been nearly two years since the Mill Valley Planning Commission rejected a proposal, within an informal study session, from the then-owner of the 500 Miller Avenue project to turn it into either a) a project containing 28 condo units varying from small to large, including seven below…

Should your favorite grocery clerks at Mill Valley Market be able to live in our community if they want to? How about our firefighters, teachers and police officers? If the answer’s yes, how do we go about making that happen? That work – identifying short-, medium- and long-term strategies to make sure that those vital contributors…

John Rothmann. In cases you’ve been living under the world’s largest rock or live every day by the mantra that ‘ignorance is bliss,’ you’re well aware that there is a U.S. Presidential Election on Tuesday., Nov. 3. The folks at the Outdoor Art Club continue to do everything they can to keep people informed, and…