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Beginning Saturday May 8 at 12pm, the downtown Miller Ave. street closure between Throckmorton and Sunnyside Avenues shifts to a full, one-block closure on Saturdays from 12pm through Sundays at 8pm for the foreseeable future. Participating business owners and volunteers will be installing and breaking down these barricades. Traffic patterns will return to full two-way access Sundays at…

Despite an unemployment rate of just 2.5% here in Mill Valley, the job boards for the 94941 are loaded with postings, primarily for service industry jobs, spanning grocery store, cafe and retail clerks to salon, pet care and real estate office receptionists. We are not alone.  From the hyperlocal to across the United States, there’s no question…

​Vastly reduced density capacity for retail shops, most of which were already the size of a postage stamp. Limited or no use of dressing rooms.  A massive drop in consumers’ comfort to shop inside. These were just a few of the looming regulations and factors outside of retailers’ control that they’ve had to navigate over…

From the folks at the Mill Valley Depot Bookstore: “Do you love to read and to draw? If so, enter your design into the Depot Bookstore’s Bookmark Competition! The competition will be accepting entries until May 31 and the bookstore will be selecting winners from all age groups (preschool, elementary, middle school and high school). …

If Marin is going be ready to make the “paradigm” shift of a full, tier-less  reopening on June 15, per Gov. Gavin Newsom’s plan, we’ve got some work to do. A sense of growing excitement had permeated Marin in the previous two weeks after Marin County Public Health Officer Dr. Matt Willis told the Board of…

Dr. J. Xavier Prochaska, a professor of Galactic and Stellar Studies at UC Santa Cruz, studies galaxies and fleeting phenomena known as transient sources using the light from stars and quasars to examine matter that reveals itself in silhouette. At a virtual event hosted on Zoom by the Outdoor Art Club pn Thursday, May 13…

Seager Gray Gallery’s The Art of the Book, 2021. Now in its 16th year, the Seager Gray Gallery‘s renowned annual The Art of the Book exhibit continues to grow by leaps and bounds. The exhibit, focused on a variety of art related to books, aims to hit as many buttons as possible in its investigation of text, image and form. This…

William Callahan. Callahan Financial Planning, an independent, fee-only fiduciary financial advisory firm, announced last month that it will be merging its operations with TS Prosperity Group. The partnership doubles the size of the combined businesses to an estimated $450 million in assets under management, and help the firms provide trustee services, enhanced tax planning, and improved technology to clients. Callahan…

After pivoting its kids’ summer camp program to Zoom last summer, Mt. Tam Church in Mill Valley is ready to welcome children back in person for two great summer camp opportunities, one for kids and one for youth. The first is Peace Camp for kids ages 5-12 the week of June 21st-25th. 9am-1pm. $125. The…

From left, Matt Clark, Kier Holmes, Jack Clark, Kathleen Holmes at Marin MOCA’s 12th Annual Altered Book Exhibit. Courtesy image. The Marin Museum of Contemporary Art’s 12th Annual Altered Book Exhibit, which runs through May 23 and features more than 135 inventive book art objects, has a quartet of participating artists participating from one generation-spanning family. Matt…

Hoping to have a less turbulent, bug-laden rollout than the Small Business Administration’s long-delayed Shuttered Venue Operators Grant (SVOG) program, which went live on Monday, the SBA is set go live on Monday, May 3rd with the Restaurant Revitalization Fund. The $28.6 billion program, created as part of last month’s $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan, will offer grants of up to $10…

Cheryl Modica, at far right, at her eponymous store at 15 East Blithedale Avenue. Spend a few minutes with Cheryl Modica and you quickly realize that she is a “take the bull by the horns” kind of person. Modica, who has lived in Mill Valley since the 1970s and had an illustrious career in retail…