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Mill Valley Little League officials hope to open the season by April but acknowledge that a parade and opening day ceremony is not in the cards for 2021. In a typical January, Mill Valley Little League President Caroline Joachim and her board of directors are feverishly finishing tryouts and readying one of the biggest events…

Senior Enlisted Advisor to the Chairman (SEAC) Ramon “CZ” Colon-Lopez receives a COVID-19 vaccine at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Bethesda, Md., Dec. 21, 2020. (DOD Photo by Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Carlos M. Vazquez II). With Marin County’s COVID-19 case counts dipping a bit since the horrific post-holiday surge that triggered an indefinite…

Performing Arts Academy of Marin (PAAM), Mill Valley residents Annie and DJ Thistle’s multi-faceted artistic juggernaut that also includes tumbling and gymnastics hub Tumblespot, is launching on January 18 a new Studio Fine Arts Club Program for students ages 3-6. “This fun and active curriculum allows children to develop social skills and talents at a young age,” the Thistles…

There’s no institution in Mill Valley better equipped at sparking conversation and learning amidst a long-overdue racial equitiy reckoning than the Mill Valley Public Library. To that end, the library is hosting its first-ever city-wide read that looks at what it takes “to think openly and independently – to question our assumptions? We invite you…

Dr. Melanie Ott. Courtesy image. The fight against the novel coronavirus has been the monumental medical challenge of a lifetime, and few know that fight better than one of our neighbors. Mill Valley resident Dr. Melanie Ott, M.D., Ph.D., is the Director of the Gladstone Institute of Virology and a professor of medicine at UC San Francisco.…

Carlyce and Nick. In September 2020, the Mill Valley City Council approved a collaboration with ​Covia, a Walnut Creek-based nonprofit organization whose “House Mill Valley,” a program that matches residents with more house than they need with people looking for more affordable housing opportunities than Mill Valley currently offers. The program has already shown some success stories. Take the story…

Scenes from the Miller Takeover, summer 2020. For Marin restaurants, late 2020 presented a puzzling predicament: with outdoor dining banned as part of the state’s stay at home order, they were forced to rely entirely on takeout and delivery throughout the holiday season and to operate at a tiny fraction of their usual operations. The nearly bare…

At center, Limelight Productions’ founder Khadija Hansia-Gibson, with husband Rondell Gibson and son Eesa. Clockwise from top right, photos by Wedding Documentary, Burgundy Visuals, From SF With Love, Usman B Photograph, Greer Rivera Photography and Vivian Chen. Courtesy images. As real estate agent Karron Martin laid the groundwork for her wedding four years ago, she knew…

Marin County Public Health Officer Dr. Matt Willis. Courtesy image. [UPDATE 1.12.21: Marin County Public Health Officer Dr. Matt Willis said this week that the state will be increasing the frequency of its evaluations of the ICU capacity metric that serves as the trigger remaining under the stay at home order. That allows the Bay Area…

California State Assembly room. Photo Copyright © 2005 David Monniaux via Wikimedia Commons. As happens at the beginning of every new calendar year, a slate of new laws went into effect in California on Jan. 1, and many of the new legislative arrivals reflect the tumult of 2020, when wildfires, the pandemic and criminal justice reform were…

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…

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…