SF News Black Marin County Couple Lowballed by $500K In Home Appraisal Featured In New Documentary The new documentary “Our America: Lowballed” details how Black and Latinx families get far lower appraisals on their homes, and one of the families featured is a notorious case from Marin County.
SF News Power NIMBY Move: Marin Residents Give Selves Hefty Tax Hike to Block Housing Development Would you pay $335 a year, every year for 30 years, to block 43 lots of single-family homes? Some Marin County residents just did that by a decisive margin, rejecting a proposed large-scale development and instead voting make it a 110-acre public park.
SF News Six Teens — Including Three 13-Year-Olds — Arrested In Connection With Stabbing Outside Marin School Five teenagers have been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder and one 19-year-old has been arrested on suspicion of aiding and abetting after a 16-year-old boy was stabbed and critically wounded outside an elementary school in Novato last week.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Trio of New Restaurants Open Thursday at Cavallo Point, Including the Mediterranean-Inspired Sula Over on the other side of the Golden Gate Bridge, in the Before Times, Cavallo Point was known as a semi-secret spa, date, and special-occasion spot — with its restaurant Murray Circle enjoying a number of years of critical acclaim.
SF News Feds Target Marin County ‘Wellness’ Gurus Accused of Fraudulent Business and $2 Million In Unpaid Taxes The author of “Skinny, Tan and Rich: Unveiling the Myth,” and her husband, stand accused of dodging a $2 million tax bill, and federal prosecutors allege they set up an LLC scheme to hide their assets.
SF News Defunct West Marin Golf Course Being 'Rewilded' Into Nature Preserve In a positive story of ecosystem restoration and climate resilience in Marin County, a former golf course was purchased by the nonprofit Trust for Public Land and is in the process of being devolved into its former state as a floodplain and wildlife habitat.
SF News SF Man Accused of Stealing Xfinity Van, Dressing As Comcast Technician to Rob Marin Home A San Francisco man was arrested on July 4th for allegedly trying to break into a home in San Rafael well posing as a Comcast technician, with the help of a uniform and a stolen Xfinity van.
SF News Highway 101 Southbound Blocked Tuesday Morning By Multi-Vehicle Crash An injury crash involving at least four vehicles caused a major backup for anyone trying to drive from the North Bay into the city via 101 Tuesday morning.
SF News Tamalpais School District Hit With Title IX Violations Over Harassment of Trans Student A five-year-old case of bullying at an unnamed high school in the Tamalpais Union High School District brings a federal penalty, and the district is forced to take steps to remediate a pattern of alleged inaction.
Arts & Entertainment Oscar-Winning Marin County Filmmaker John Korty Has Died at Age 85 The director of “Go Ask Alice” and “The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman” was the inspiration for Coppola and George Lucas to start up their own Bay Area film studios, and remained in Marin County throughout his prolific career.
SF News ‘California’s Richest City’ In Marin Could Get Its First-Ever Mixed-Income Housing, Though It Doesn't Look Too Affordable The Marin County city of Belvedere has not built a unit of affordable housing in 33 years, but a new complex with a couple of affordable units is making waves along its lagoons.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Marin Brewing Company Closing at the End of the Month, After a Nearly 33-Year Run One of the early trailblazers of the microbrewery craze is shuttering on January 31, as Larkspur’s Marin Brewing Company is the latest restaurant and brewery to go bottoms up during the pandemic.
SF News Holiday Party In Larkspur Leads to 28 COVID Infections, Omicron Suspected A holiday party in Marin County ten days ago where all attendees were vaccinated led to an outbreak of at least 28 cases of COVID, and health officials believe the Omicron variant was to blame.
SF News Marin County Parents Who Sent COVID-Positive Kid to School Could Face Criminal Charges Public health officials in Marin County are talking with prosecutors about the possibility of criminal charges for a couple who ignored a positive COVID test and sent their two children to school to spread the virus around.
SF News Marin County COVID Outbreak Seeded By Child Whose Parents Ignored Positive Test An outbreak at a San Anselmo school was the fault of parents whose child tested positive for COVID-19, but then they ignored that test and sent the kid to school anyway.
SF News Accused Capitol Insurrectionist From Mill Valley Has Fled to Belarus Seeking Asylum A Marin County man accused of punching two officers during the Trump Capitol insurrection has run off to Belarus to avoid the charges, complaining of “political persecution.”
SF News Marin County Becomes First In California to Have 'Moderate' COVID Transmission In CDC Framework Marin County just became the first in the Bay Area and in the state to enter the yellow or "moderate" tier of COVID transmission, setting it up to potentially be the first county in the Bay Area to reach the new regional criteria for dropping the indoor mask mandate.
SF News Marin Health Officer Addresses Report On School COVID Outbreak: 'Everyone Makes Mistakes' The report that the CDC released late last week pertaining to a May COVID outbreak at a Marin County school continues to have a ripple effect nationwide — showing how classrooms, even with windows open and kids masked, can be vulnerable to the Delta variant.
SF News One Unvaccinated Teacher In Marin School Seeded COVID Outbreak That Infected Over a Dozen Students, Their Siblings, and Parents The CDC has just released a study focused on how one unvaccinated teacher infected with the Delta variant of COVID-19, in a mostly masked Marin County classroom, managed to infect half their students and seeded an outbreak that hit another classroom and students' families as well.
Arts & Entertainment Marin Theatre Company to Reopen With West Coast Premiere of 'The Sound Inside' An acclaimed play that had its Broadway opening in the fall of 2019 is making its West Coast premiere in Marin County in September, and it will mark the first in-person performances at Marin Theatre Company since the start of the pandemic.
SF News Diary Belonging to Husband of Betsy Ross Found In Marin County Garage In another reminder to always go through your deceased relatives’ possessions lest you lose an amazing artifact, Betsy Ross’s third husband’s diary has been gathering dust in a Marin County garage until it was recently found.
SF News Marin County Ups the Ante With Water Restrictions, Limits Lawn Watering to Once a Week Facing a drought that everyone is calling unprecedented, Marin County is tightening its water-use restrictions in ways that other counties may soon follow.
SF News Sausalito Police Bulldoze Tent Encampment at Formerly Ritzy Park Dunphy Park had typically been home to kayakers and an outdoor art festival, but the 35 unsheltered people who'd set up an encampment there were very unceremoniously given the boot early Tuesday morning.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Anti-Vaxxers Storm Marin Meeting, Tear Off Masks The SFPD has arrested a San Bruno man in a Marina District shooting last week, anti-vaxxers stormed a public meeting with a congressman in Marin County, and Santa Clara County is imposing its first mandatory water restrictions in the drought.
SF News With Bay Area COVID Cases Continuing to Decline, Marin and Solano Counties Reach New Tiers The seven-day average of daily new cases in the Bay Area was 174 over the last week. That is down dramatically from an average of 518 recorded cases each day in the first week of May.
