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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 collaboration between the Mill Valley Chamber of Commerce and the treasure trove that is the Mill Valley Public Library‘s Lucretia Little History Room.

Suzanne “Suzie” Wickham, wife of Mill Valley City Councilman Jim Wickham and mother of five children, passed away on March 7 after a long, quiet, valiant fight against her illness, participating in a cutting-edge cancer study at U.C.S.F., and choosing to believe in the strides, rather than the odds…

The Restaurant Revitalization Fund, a $28.6 billion support program for bars, restaurants and food trucks whose sales were devastated by the shutdowns that states imposed in response to the pandemic, closed on July 1 after running out of money, despite only fulfilling less than one-third of the grant requests it received.

Since the moment the Mill Valley Depot Cafe and Bookstore & Cafe reopened in January, longtime regulars and newbies alike have streamed into the gorgeously renovated building to bask in Mill Valley’s most celebrated landmarks and enjoy a delicious menu that linked the past with the present. But general manager Matt Borello has long had it in the back of his mind that they were missing something: menu items specifically catering to the kiddos.

Whether it’s been in support of restaurants and nonprofits during the wreckage of the COVID-19 crisis or the myriad programs to support frontline workers, Mill Valley residents have stepped up time and time again to hold up their neighbors. Tragically, they’ve had another reason to do so…

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, is ready to put the tumultuous, coronavirus-driven roller coaster in the rearview mirror.

Each dose of good news of Milll Valley’s emergence ​from the pandemic, from live music returning to the Throckmorton, the top of Mount Tam and Sweetwater Music Hall to the long-awaited returns of the Hivery, La Ginestra and Movies in the Park, brings a jolt of adrenaline to our community.

Despite having 85% of Marin County residents over the age of 12 fully vaccinated, we all got a stark reminder Friday that we are far from out of the COVID-19 woods. Marin County Public Health Officer Dr. Matt Willis locked arms with six of his fellow Bay Area counties in making a strong recommendation for everyone to wear a mask in indoor settings going forward.