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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…

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…