Nagle sues Shoreline for retaliation
05/23/2019
The former principal of West Marin and Inverness Schools sued Shoreline Unified School District and its superintendent, Bob Raines, this month, alleging retaliation, defamation and violations of his constitutional right to free speech. Matt Nagle, whom the school board demoted from his six-year post as principal to a kindergarten, first-... Absent supe, late pay irk SUSD teachers
05/23/2019
Shoreline teachers expressed frustration with delays on payments that were contractually agreed upon in January in a letter delivered last week to Superintendent Bob Raines and the district’s board of trustees. The letter, signed by the Shoreline Educators’ Association and read aloud by eighth-grade teacher Julie Cassel at last Thursday’s... Richard Vacha: Inside the tracker's mind
05/23/2019
What goes on among coyotes in the seashore when no one is watching? What is the bobcat’s favorite trail, the rhythm of otter play, the strategy of the red fox that arrived during the drought? Richard Vacha, a Point Reyes Station resident with more than 30 years of local tracking... Marin homeless counts down in biennial survey
05/22/2019
Once every two years, before the sun rises, a team of volunteers make the rounds, attempting to account for all the people asleep without a roof above them—numbers required by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, which provides the bulk of Marin’s operating budget to address homelessness... Newly discovered coral named for Cordell Bank
05/22/2019
It’s bright yellow and fewer than five inches in diameter, and you’ve never seen it before: a new coral species, Chromoplexaura cordellbankensis. It’s named after Cordell Bank, where it was discovered last summer by scientists with the California Academy of Sciences and Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuary. Aboard the Bell... Land trust lays out vision as golf greens go brown
05/23/2019
Irrigation ceased at the San Geronimo Golf Course last week, and the property’s owner, the Trust for Public Land, announced the launch of a community engagement campaign to hear residents’ hopes for the 157-acre property—which the nonprofit does not plan to own in the long term. “What we have heard... Nature Notebook, May 23, 2019
05/23/2019
The new moon of June 3 begins the cycle of extra-low summer tides, though it can feel difficult to figure out which season we are in as rainstorms wash across West Marin. The low tides will come just after sunrise each morning. Thursday, June 6 will see the lowest, at... Marna Clarke sheds light on aging
05/23/2019
In her 2011 memoir “Blue Nights,” Joan Didion writes, “Aging and its evidence remain life’s most predictable events, yet they also remain matters we prefer to leave unmentioned, unexplored.” Inverness artist Marna Clarke takes a nuanced and unflinching look at this event in “Autumn,” her solo exhibition at Gallery Route...
