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Karen Olson, owner of Juice Girl, whose restaurant participates in the Great Plates Program. Over the course of the COVID-19 crisis in Marin, there have been no shortage of innovative programs to both feed frontlines workers and the elderly while also generating some much-needed revenue for local restaurants. Since March, that has included Feed the Frontlines…

Joan Baez’s portrait of her sister, Mimi Farina. Courtesy image. Three years after Donna Seager and Suzanne Gray landed the first solo painting exhibit from legendary singer-songwriter and activist Joan Baez with “Mischief Makers” a series of acrylic paintings of some of the most famous “risk-taking revolutionaries” at their Seager Gray Gallery at 108 Throckmorton Avenue, the trio are collaborating again. This time Baez, the…

Because Marin has among the highest testing rates in the state, local case rates are adjusted downward, which places Marin among counties that may move into the less restrictive “red” tier starting September 8, a move that could set the stage for some indoor dining. The Shavery Barbershop and Revery Salon on East Blithedale Ave. Mill…

Modify owner Juli Lippire. The COVID-19 crisis has been hard on all of us, but Mill Valley’s seniors have been particularly vulnerable during these past six months. Fortunately, residents of The Redwoods, Mill Valley’s community of seniors, have had the support of a stalwart, dedicated staff and an array of volunteers, both internal and from throughout…

Street takeovers will also occur over Labor Day Weekend on Monday, Sept. 7. For five straight weekends, Mill Valley residents and guests have made clear that their appetite for al fresco dining and shopping options is robust and passionate. They’ve turned out in droves for the #MillerTakeover, a Slow Streets-styled, weekend-long closure of Miller Avenue between Throckmorton…

Just about every local youth sports organization has been scrambling since March to figure out what programming to roll out in Mill Valley given the ever-fluid health and safety protocols  during the COVID-19 crisis. After a successful series of summer camps, Dave Fromer Soccer is unveiling its 4th Annual Fall Soccer Program​. Fall 5 v 5 Soccer is a…

Pickleweed Park & Albert J. Boro Community Center in the Canal district of San Rafael. On the heels of disturbing COVID-19 trends in July and early August, Marin’s coronavirus metrics are largely heading in the right direction, and County of Marin officials indicated this week hopefulness about eventually getting off the state’s watch list. Marin’s…

Longtime Marin coffee business bought the highest coffee farm in Central America along with Boot Coffee in 2008. As Equator Coffees founders Helen Russell and Brooke McDonnell have worked feverishly to steer their business through the COVID-19 crisis, they’ve also had their heads and hearts far afield – to Finca Sophia, the coffee farm they’ve co-owned with Willem…

The map below shows the service area including roughly 2.5 square miles from all Marin County SMART stations. First, the caveats: Other than the essential workers that serve as the backbone of our community, very few of us are commuting anywhere, and those Mill Valley residents who are commuting are more likely to be heading…

Mountain Home Inn at 810 Panoramic Hwy. in Mill Valley. Courtesy image. For all of July and most of August to date, Marin businesses have been stuck in an inertia-laden holding pattern. With COVID-19 metrics – the number of coronavirus cases per 1000,000 residents and hospitalization rates – trending in the wrong direction, and with…

​Like so many nonprofits all over the globe, Bloom, the San Rafael-based nonprofit that provides free wardrobes and life skills training to men, women and families transitioning to a life of self-reliance and looking for a job, has had to get creative in organizing its annual fundraiser during the COVID-19 crisis. The organization, which was founded as Image for Success…

Terra Marin Micro-Schools launch Aug. 28 in Mill Valley, San Francisco and Woodside. Courtesy images. Like any new arrival in a community, Wendy Xa, who opened Terra Marin School and the Terra Mandarin Preschool in late 2018 in the former Ring Mountain Day School space on Lomita Drive in Mill Valley, spent plenty of time in the schools’ fledgling months listening to the…