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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 industry…

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…

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…

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…

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…

What to do when the vast majority of local businesses are deemed non-essential and thus need to be closed or significantly scaled back to comply with the shelter in place order that now extends through May 3? As we have already seen countless times by Mill Valley businesses, the answer Is: create, innovate and leverage…

George Lawson Gallery, one of a pair of acclaimed galleries that moved from San Francisco to Mill Valley in 2019, was set to debut its latest exhibit last month – Johanna Baruch’s—Himma: Selections from the Cosmos Series, a selection of gorgeous paintings that study the heavens – only to have the shelter in place order to combat…

Tam High senior Kylie Frame, at top left and bottom right, has spearheaded Feed the Frontlines Marin to support local frontline workers and local restaurants. Courtesy images. Over the past few weeks, as the shelter in place order spurred on by the COVID-19 outbreak turned into a open-ended necessity, Tam High senior Kylie Frame has…

It’s as quiet as can be at the usually always-bustling Mill Valley Community Center. Health officers in seven Bay Area jurisdictions, including Marin, are updating a previous stay-at-home order April until at least May 3, to preserve critical hospital capacity across the region during the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, Bay Area health officers announced today. The…

Mill Valley resident Jesse Roselin’s Tutor Corps, which provides tutoring in all K-12 subjects, has continued to grow and evolve in recent years. In 2019, the company launched Pacific Preparatory, an in-home, one-to-one, K-12 private school that promises an engaging one-on-one academic experience with flexible curriculum and scheduling. Now Roselin Is set to bolster the legions of Mill…

Mr. E. Bunny won’t be able to greet hundreds of children in person at Mill Valley Recreation‘s annual Spring Eggstravaganza and Bunny Breakfast, but the show will go on – online, that is. Instead of the usual Bunny Breakfast followed by the annual Egg Hunt on Friends Field, MV Rec officials are going virtual with the event, placing “virtual…

Otis (R. Ward Duffy) & Penelope (Clea Alsip in Kate Cortesi’s “Love.” Photo credit: Alessandra Mello/mellophoto. Marin Theatre Company entered the month of March with gusto, ready to showcase performances of playwright Kate Cortesi’s Love, which explores the complexities of #MeToo moments. On the heels of powerhouse performances in the opening days, it all came crashing down…