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As of the first week of January, Marin remain’s under the state’s Stay-at-Home order, halting both indoor and outdoor dining as COVID-19 cases continue to spike and ICU capacity, the primary metric under the order, remains below the 15% minimum in the Bay Area region.  ​Despite the continued massive setback, Mill Valley’s restaurants have innovated…

Sit down in any cafe throughout the 94941 – OK, maybe not in the past 10 months – and you’re bound to overhear a conversation about a great idea, either from an entrepreneur or someone hoping to make a difference for those in need. A group of Mill Valley residents have decided to organize themselves…

District 3 Supervisor Stephanie Moulton-Peters takes the oath of office from Congressman Jared Huffman on December 30. Courtesy image. Stephanie Moulton-Peters, a three-term member of the Mill Valley City Council, officially joined the Marin County Board of Supervisors this week as the representative for residents of District 3 in Southern Marin. Moulton-Peters was administered the oath of…

Gov. Gavin Newsom this week proposed a $4.5 billion spending plan for 2021, a budget that adds $575 million to the $500 million the state set aside in November to provide small businesses with grants between $5,000 and $25,000. Newsom’s proposal seeks a total of $1.075 billion for the State’s Small Business COVID-19 Relief Grant Program, with priority given to “regions…

EO Products, the San Rafael-based natural and organic personal care products company co-founded by longtime Mill Valley resident Susan Griffin-Black, is closing its EO Exchange retail shop in downtown Mill Valley, the company announced this week. The shop, which opened in 2012, is holding a customer appreciate sale, with 25 percent off all products through its…

Kamala Harris, Anthony Fauci, Patti Smith, Greta Thunberg, Michael Moore, Colin Kaepernick, Emma Gonzalez, Wavy Gravy and Alice Walker among the subjects of latest exhibit. Joan Baez’s ‘Mischief Makers 2’ exhibit is a series of acrylic paintings of “revolutionaries” like former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kapernick, the late US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader…

The COVID-19 crisis has had profoundly distressing impacts on so many layers of the Mill Valley community. There are the frontline hospital workers treating coronavirus patients and administering vaccine, as well as the essential workers ping-ponging between crazy schedules to being furloughed. And there are the business owners constantly having to reinvent a business model…

Restaurant owners from Mill Valley and all over Marin County threw their weight this week behind a Change.org petition crafted by Dustin Sullivan, owner of Guesthouse in Kentfield. In doing so, they sought a reconsideration of the current ban on outdoor dining for any region whose intensive care unit capacity has dipped below 15 percent…

While most Americans consider Abraham Lincoln one of our nation’s greatest heroes, some ridicule him as a country bumpkin or decry him as a dictator. And while most historians see the “Great Emancipator” as a champion of freedom for African Americans, some view him as a racist and hypocrite. A presentation via the Outdoor Art…

Through the spring and summer of 2020, the Mill Valley community locked arms with local small businesses, donating to the Chamber’s COVID-19 Mill Valley Business Fund, our campaign to raise funds for as many $1,000 direct cash grants as possible at a moment of crisis amidst the pandemic. You donated, en masse, raising nearly $100,000 to support almost…

​It took federal lawmakers seven months to reach an agreement on a desperately needed second round of stimulus to help ease the horrific impacts of the COVID-19 crisis. But they finally did just that this week, and President Trump is expected to sign it Tuesday. The widespread hope is that the $900 billion stimulus package…

Mountain Play. Courtesy image. As we’ve been reporting for the duration of the COVID-19 crisis, few sectors of our local economy have been hit harder than arts organizations, which have been thrashed by their complete inability to gather people in a room to experience art, live music and performance since mid-March.  In recognition of that fact, the Marin…