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Like all live music arts organizations, the nonprofit Mill Valley Philharmonic is taking measured steps towards what a return to normalcy certainly might look like, striking a balance between the 15 free virtual programs its created over the past year and its desire to perform in-person concerts when it is safe to do so.To that end, the longtime Mill…

Throckmorton Theatre and Joe’s Taco Lounge are among the many local businesses and nonprofits that have been ravaged by the pandemic and would qualify for the SVOG and Restaurant Revitalization programs, respectively. Remember the Shuttered Venue Operators Grant and the Restaurant Revitalization Fund? The federal government says the two programs, designed to bring financial relief to two of…

The project will seek to, among other things, reduce the confusion crosswalks and intersections largely driven by the remnants of Mill Valley’s railroad history, officials said. Fourteen months ago, the Mill Valley City Council signed off on a $2 million overhaul of downtown sewers, sidewalks, storm drains and streets, all with a focus on minimizing the impact…

Outdoor dining at Vasco. A pair of efforts in the California State Senate to give more flexibility to bars, restaurants and music venues to help them stay afloat amidst the COVID-19 crisis have passed through the Senate Governmental Organization Committee with unanimous, bipartisan support, clearing the way for measures that would bolster business sectors that have been…

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…