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Local Kitchens Partners with Kiddo! in November – They’ll Be Giving 5% of All Sales From Nov. 4th-10th to the Mill Valley Schools Community Foundation. ‘Swing by Local Kitchens for a Meal to Support Kiddo!’

Local Kitchens in Mill Valley is pursuing its mission to give back, bringingĀ communities together through food. “We have loved being a business partner of Kiddo! to help further local children’s education through the arts,” the Local Kitchen s team says in a statement. “As a part of this partnership, we will be giving 5% of all sales between Nov. 4th-10th. Swing by Local Kitchens for a meal (or two) this week to support Kiddo!”

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Facing Cost Headwinds, Marine Layer Group Pivots to an Alternative Model for Massive Unoccupied BofA Building in the Heart of Town, Eyes Turning It Into Retail Use Along With Flexible Work and Event Space

Aimlessly drifting tumbleweeds don’t spend much time in the 94941. When an intensely-felt Mill Valley controversy arises, our community engages, often deeply so, to say the least. Few subjects have stirred the proverbial pot in town more than the June 2023 proposal for the membership-based Treehouse from Marine Layer founders Adam Lynch and Mike Natenshon, part of the team leasing and developing the former bank building at 60 Throckmorton Ave., all of whom live in Mill Valley.

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Sacramento Bee: With a 7.40 Rating, Marin Would be the 7th Happiest Nation in the World, Between the Netherlands and Canada, if it Were its Own Country

ā€œWe find that happiness is aligned with specific quality of life ratings. In particular, jobs, leisure, and housing,ā€ Baldassare said, according to the report. ā€œIn our polling, we also looked at personal finance. But the biggest change we’ve seen over time has been satisfaction with jobs, which went from 52% saying they were very satisfied in our first polling to 31% today.ā€ Other polling, by Gallup, asked Californians to rate their satisfaction of life from 1 to 10. A research team from the University of Oxford then compiled all 215,801 responses into a map of the state, broken down by county.

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Local Kitchens Partners with Celebrity Chef Alvin Cailan to Bring New Brand, Sweet Onion Burger, to Northern California, Including MIll Valley

Local Kitchens partnered with Cailan to share his take on a staple of American cuisine: the burger. It’s a match made in culinary heaven, as Cailan is a burger connoisseur. Cailan first rose to culinary prominence after founding the famed restaurant, Eggslut, and his many accolades include creating LA’s top burger spot, Amboy Quality Meats, hosting the viral YouTube sensation, The Burger Show, (with 129M views and counting!) and serving as a food consultant for the animated series, Bob’s Burgers.

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SFGATE: Bay Area Gas Station Owner Mike Shamsian Explains How He Sells Some of the Cheapest Fuels in the Bay Area

Shamsian started researching enterprises with more security for leaseholders and learned that gas stations are subject toĀ a lawĀ that strengthens protections for retailers. He started looking for a pump to take over, and it was his wife Fariba who first learned that the Mill Valley Arco was about to hit the market. Shamsian started managing the station in 1995 (Arco’s owner, Marathon Petroleum, is still the landlord) and quickly saw that he’d have to take a risk if he was going to succeed. ā€œI just had to go and sacrifice pricing,ā€ he said.

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