Enjoy Mill Valley Blog
The Enjoy Mill Valley Blog is the official storytelling platform of the Mill Valley Chamber of Commerce — and the most comprehensive source for what’s happening in and around town.
Designed for residents, visitors, and business owners alike, the blog delivers timely, relevant coverage that captures the spirit of Mill Valley. From new business openings and community spotlights to local event previews, seasonal guides, and insider recommendations, Enjoy Mill Valley brings together everything that makes this community exceptional.
With a focus on connection and discovery, the blog:
- Highlights local businesses and entrepreneurs
- Covers Chamber initiatives and civic partnerships
- Promotes community events and cultural happenings
- Shares curated guides for dining, shopping, and experiences
- Celebrates the people who shape Mill Valley’s character
Whether you’re looking to explore something new, support a neighborhood business, or stay informed about upcoming events, the Enjoy Mill Valley Blog is your trusted source for local insight — thoughtfully curated and proudly community-driven.
Once Around’s Louise Dockstader and Her Team of Masketeers Have the County Covered Amidst COVID-19
County employees stand with the Masketeers’ Louise Dockstader (far left and upper left of main photo) after she delivered more than 400 masks to the Marin County Sheriff’s Office on April 13, 2020. Courtesy image. With her much-loved Once Around arts and crafts shop in the Mill Valley Lumber Yard deemed non-essential during the shelter…
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Frame’s Feed the Frontlines Surges Past $30k Raised in Collaboration w/ Shoreline, Watershed & Juice Girl
Feed the Frontlines volunteers delivered food to MarinHealth Medical Center earlier this month. Courtesy image. For Kylie Frame, what began as an effort to fill the shelter in place void of her final months as a Tam High senior has turned into a movement. Frame, who last month launched Feed the Frontlines Marin, a two-pronged effort…
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MV Chamber Launches COVID-19 Mill Valley Business Fund to Support Direct Cash Grants to Local Businesses
We hear it all the time: there’s no place like Mill Valley. Historic small town character, incomparable natural beauty, top notch public schools, world class arts & entertainment, culinary and retail scenes that rival those of much larger cities. We all benefit from a local economy driven by hundreds of unique small businesses. That small…
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Here’s Why You Should Pickup Your Takeout From Mill Valley Restaurants – or Get Delivery By a Local Service
By Christina Mueller It can’t be stated any more clearly: Mill Valley businesses need your dollars. Right now. That can happen by donating to the COVID-19 Mill Valley Business Fund, which is providing immediate and direct cash grants to as many Mill Valley businesses and organizations as possible. It can also come by shopping at your…
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Mill Valley Arts Commission Launches Virtual Artwalk
The Mill Valley Arts Commission‘s First Tuesday Artwalk, a monthly celebration of local art throughout downtown and at venues all over town, is a great way for art lovers to feed their soul by checking out some incredible art. But it has always been a very communal, in-person activity, with spaces like the O’Hanlon Center for the Arts, the…
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Cash (Flow) Is King: Support Your Favorite Local Biz by Buying Gift Cards to Use When This Madness Is Over
Whether you value local businesses’ incredible contributions to the local tax base or simply fear the loss of your favorite restaurant, retail shop, arts & nonprofit organizations and service providers (hopefully all of the above!), it goes without saying that we want to see all businesses and organizations survive this shelter in place order amidst…
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Eat Up & Show Love: Here Are the Local Restaurants Serving Up Delicious Food Via Take Out & Delivery
NOTE: Given the ever-changing dynamic for our local restaurants – County officials approved outdoor dining at the very moment City officials finalized a menu of options for businesses to use outdoor space to comply with social distancing requirements amidst the COVID-19 crisis – we’ve created a new post incorporating outdoor dining, takeout and delivery options. GO…
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Neighbors Appeal City Decision to Allow New Apizza Restaurant Owner to Remove Trees at Ex-Gira Polli Site
Hearing is set for May 4. There hasn’t been a more visibly vacant commercial space in Mill Valley over the past several years – save for the blank canvas that is the mother of all retaining walls at 500 Miller Ave. – than the former Gira Polli space at 590 East Blithedale and Camino Alto. Bay Area food…
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MV’s Green Jeans Garden Supply Among Those Seeing a Surge in Sales For ‘Victory Gardens’ Amidst COVID-19
Americans are turning to all sorts of new or reinvigorated pursuits amidst the shelter in place order due to the COVID-19 outbreak, including binge-watching, bread-baking, puzzle-mastering – and even victory gardens. The latter of those has been a boon for Mill Valley garden supply shops like Green Jeans Garden Supply In Strawberry, according to KTVU. ”We have…
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As Easter Sunday Approaches, Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church Ramps Up Live Streamed Services Masses
Churches and religious organizations of every stripe have been forced in recent weeks to shift their focus to virtual services amidst the COVID-19 outbreak, and Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church, which celebrated its church building’s 50th anniversary in 2018, has been among those leading the charge. Father Patrick Michaels, the church’s pastor, has been saying a…
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The 39th Wine, Beer & Gourmet Food Tasting, Set for June 7, Has Been Postponed to September 2020
Scenes from the 2019 Wine, Beer & Gourmet Food Tasting. Photos by Gary Ferber. The party’s not over – but it is on hold. Organizers of the 39th Annual Mill Valley Wine, Beer and Gourmet Food Tasting, one of Mill Valley’s iconic events and a benefit for Kiddo!, the Mill Valley Schools Community Foundation and the Mill…
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Want Some Good News? The Outdoor Art Club Just Doled Out $55,000 in 20 Grants to Local Organizations
The Outdoor Art Club, one of Mill Valley’s oldest and historically important nonprofit organizations, has unveiled its annual list of Outreach Grant recipients, and once again it’s supporting a laundry list of discrete projects within Marin that further the Club’s purposes. The project’s listed below needed to fit with the OAC’s purpose of being “dedicated to the…
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