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Mill Valley Police Chief Rick Navarro. New Mill Valley Police Chief Rick Navarro methodically walked the Mill Valley City Council through a dozen police-related recommendations from the City’s Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Work Plan Monday night, indicating that MVPD is making strides on many of the recommendations, particularly on data reporting and adopting policies that spur bias-free policing,…

Nothing like starting a new job in the midst of a seemingly endless catastrophic pandemic. Stephanie Moulton-Peters. the longtime Mill Valley City Councilmember who was elected in March 2020 to replace Kate Sears, officially took the oath of office in January, and has been going full bore ever since. ​In the interests of taking a deep breath…

PG&E’s Alto substation, which provides power to Mill Valley and surrounding areas. As we’ve all learned over the past few years, fire season is no longer, well, a season – it’s an ongoing state of affairs.​In its continued efforts to do a better job of keeping its customers informed about the potential for Public Safety Power…

Students at the Fredrick Leon Marcus Youth Academy (FLMYA), the Marin County Cooperation Team‘s burgeoning program for mostly high schoolers, are about to get a crash course in emergency preparedness as part of a new collaboration with the Southern Marin Fire District. FLMYA, named for the first Black Sheriff Deputy in Marin County, seeks to infuse students with Marcus’…

Scenes from films from the 2021 DocLands Documentary Film Festival, set for May 7-16. When Mill Valley Film Festival organizers at the California Film Institute dove into launching the inaugural Doclands documentary film festival four years ago, they did so with the wind of an ever-growing MVFF behind them, as well as the knowledge that documentary filmmaking had taken a quantum…

Conor Dougherty. In a series of riveting stories for the New York Times in recent years, Conor Dougherty has laid bare America’s housing crisis. He’s done so throughout the western U.S., from Arizona and Idaho to all over California, the latter of which was the subject of his recent book, Golden Gates: Fighting for Housing…

Since the first shelter-in-place order went into effect in March 2020, this blog has been dominated by the trials, tribulations and nimble innovations of Mill Valley’s business, arts and nonprofit communities. In a virtual event via Zoom on Thursday, April 22, the Outdoor Art Club celebrated some of those creative metamorphoses led by “pragmatic and visionary…

Though we absolutely must stay vigilant with the ever-present specter of the COVID-19 crisis, we sure could get used to this stretch of good news. Marin County Public Health Officer Dr. Matt Willis told the Board of Supervisors this week that Marin could move into the less restrictive yellow tier as soon as April 20. “We…

In the months since the City of Mill Valley’s 22-person Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Task Force issued its full report and recommendations in the form of a 93-page document that spanned affordable housing, cultural and recreational engagement, economic opportunity, education and more, much of the community’s attention has remained focused on policing, which was the focus of 12 of the group’s…

Meredith Suttles. It goes without saying that, despite some measured progress in recent weeks and some long-overdue financial relief that has yet to fully materialize, live arts organizations remain in a monumental state of flux. Marin Theatre Company announced this week that it found the right person to steer it through the uncertainty, hiring Meredith Suttles…

Flour Craft Bakery co-owner Heather Hardcastle, at right, has published the Flour Craft Bakery & Cafe Cookbook. Photo by Erin Scott. The Flour Craft Bakery & Cafe Cookbook includes the recipe for Vegan Fruit Crumble Bars. Courtesy image. When Heather Hardcastle and her husband Rick Perko opened the second location of their gluten-free Flour Craft Bakery in…

When it comes to issues of racial equity and social justice, Mill Valley’s youth continue to take the lead. Much as they did during the weeks and months after the killing of George Floyd, which sparked a series of student-led peaceful protests both here in Mill Valley and all over Marin in the spring and summer of 2020, young people were at the forefront…