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Just about every local youth sports organization has been scrambling since March to figure out what programming to roll out in Mill Valley given the ever-fluid health and safety protocols  during the COVID-19 crisis. After a successful series of summer camps, Dave Fromer Soccer is unveiling its 4th Annual Fall Soccer Program​. Fall 5 v 5 Soccer is a…

Pickleweed Park & Albert J. Boro Community Center in the Canal district of San Rafael. On the heels of disturbing COVID-19 trends in July and early August, Marin’s coronavirus metrics are largely heading in the right direction, and County of Marin officials indicated this week hopefulness about eventually getting off the state’s watch list. Marin’s…

Longtime Marin coffee business bought the highest coffee farm in Central America along with Boot Coffee in 2008. As Equator Coffees founders Helen Russell and Brooke McDonnell have worked feverishly to steer their business through the COVID-19 crisis, they’ve also had their heads and hearts far afield – to Finca Sophia, the coffee farm they’ve co-owned with Willem…

The map below shows the service area including roughly 2.5 square miles from all Marin County SMART stations. First, the caveats: Other than the essential workers that serve as the backbone of our community, very few of us are commuting anywhere, and those Mill Valley residents who are commuting are more likely to be heading…

Mountain Home Inn at 810 Panoramic Hwy. in Mill Valley. Courtesy image. For all of July and most of August to date, Marin businesses have been stuck in an inertia-laden holding pattern. With COVID-19 metrics – the number of coronavirus cases per 1000,000 residents and hospitalization rates – trending in the wrong direction, and with…

​Like so many nonprofits all over the globe, Bloom, the San Rafael-based nonprofit that provides free wardrobes and life skills training to men, women and families transitioning to a life of self-reliance and looking for a job, has had to get creative in organizing its annual fundraiser during the COVID-19 crisis. The organization, which was founded as Image for Success…

Terra Marin Micro-Schools launch Aug. 28 in Mill Valley, San Francisco and Woodside. Courtesy images. Like any new arrival in a community, Wendy Xa, who opened Terra Marin School and the Terra Mandarin Preschool in late 2018 in the former Ring Mountain Day School space on Lomita Drive in Mill Valley, spent plenty of time in the schools’ fledgling months listening to the…

Poet and/the Bench owners Jeffrey Levin and Bonnie Powers, at top right, are showcasing Cute Coffee, a brand run by Bianka Alloyn and Sabreen Naimah, at top center, in their shop at 11 Throckmorton Avenue. Courtesy images. Poet and/the Bench, the four-year-old lifestyle store and jewelry atelier space from Jeffrey Levin and Bonnie Powers, continues its efforts to elevate emerging…

Mill Valley Music owner Gary Scheuenstuhl outside his shop at 320 Miller Ave. Like just about every business owner on the planet, Mill Valley Music shop owner Gary Scheuenstuhl’s past six months have been about adaptation to conditions beyond his control.  For Scheuenstuhl and record shop owners all over the country, the August 29th arrival of Record Store Day – the…

This post is being updated constantly to reflect the latest decisions by businesses under the shelter in place order. [Last Update 10.16.20]. Below you’ll find a working list of who’s open, who’s closed, who’s changing aspects of their business to best serve customers given the need for social distancing. ​NOTE: THIS IS AN EXTREMELY FLUID…