NEWS
Leap for Coast Guard project
With the final tranche of funding secured, the revitalization of the Coast Guard housing complex in Point Reyes Station is set to begin in January and be completed in 2028. After years of planning and delays, the Community Land Trust Association of West Marin and its partner, Eden Housing, announced this week that they won…
Disease hits pears, apples
On the corner of Fifth and B Streets, in front of the Dance Palace Church Space, stands an ornamental pear with a sprawling canopy. It’s a tree that legions of local children have climbed. But this summer, the community center’s director, Claire Burns, noticed that its leaves had begun to blacken and curl. She had…
Bringing the chamber to the listeners
Anticipating an unusually sweltering summer day, Jennifer Howard moved one of her casual house concerts to the Dance Palace, hoping to offer both the audience and musicians a cooler venue. What she found there was more than respite from the heat: the community center’s gorgeous Grotrian piano and the beginnings of a project. Ms.…
Park to demo cabin, barn
Traverse the Randall Trail on the eastern slopes of Olema Valley and you might stumble upon the Sieroty cabin, a modest board-and-batten cottage once owned by the assemblyman whose legislation helped protect public access to California’s coastline. This winter or next, the National Park Service will demolish the 850-square-foot structure, whose walls have been obscured…
Marin readies for election amid federal fight over mail-in ballots
As the Trump administration seeks to limit mail-in voting, West Marin residents committed to political action are rolling out a campaign to mobilize neighbors ahead of the general election. In March, President Trump issued an executive order that tasked the United States Postal Service with refusing mail-in ballots that fail to meet new criteria, like…
Forty tons of rotting squid leave stench on way to dump
Twice in the last week, Jake Shoemaker has had the misfortune of driving by dump trucks hauling away tons of rotting squid from the Lake Bay, the 58-foot fishing vessel that ran aground at North Beach on Aug. 21. “It just bowled me over,” said Mr. Shoemaker, who delivers mail in Inverness, Point Reyes Station,…
FEATURES & OPINIONS
The EAC should support its community
My love for West Marin runs deep. I grew up hiking Mount Tamalpais, exploring Point Reyes, and peering into the fragile tidepools of Duxbury Reef. Conservation is in my blood; my mother led hikes for the Marin Sierra Club from the 1960s well into the 1990s, teaching me early on that protecting nature requires reverence…
In the Fields, September 10, 2026
A long-fallow pocket of land on the edge of Point Reyes Station is once again in production, with a cover crop of buckwheat and bright green shoots of kale, collards, cabbage, cauliflower, and other fall crops. Oliver Monday, a Berkeley native who apprenticed under Sonoma’s esteemed Bob Cannard and worked for Molly Myerson of Little…
