07/23/2015
DROUGHT: In an effort to capture water from fog during one of the worst droughts in California’s history, a small team of locals erected a “fog net” on Coast Guard land on the Point Reyes Peninsula on Sunday. Richard Kirschman, who spearheaded the project with his partner, Doris Ober, said...
07/23/2015
ART: Models from the Bay Area Models’ Guild have been striking poses at figure drawing sessions on Wednesdays at Ink Paper Plate in Point Reyes Station for the last month. (The last session is scheduled for next Wednesday, but classes will continue in August if there are enough registrants.) Sirima...
07/16/2015
FUN: A two-man vaudeville performance by Circus of Smiles, an Oakland troupe, on Monday featured juggling and tricks of the eye. A Bolinas show drew mostly the very young, performer Tyler Parks said; an appearance at the Dance Palace (above) was greeted by a hearty group from the community center’s...
07/02/2015
DRAKES ESTERO: A crane took apart vacant worker housing at the site of the former Drakes Bay Oyster Farm on Thursday. According to West Marin Community Services, some former employees of the farm have stayed local; others have moved places like to southern California and Mexico.
06/25/2015
BOLINAS: One-year-old Otis Manson was one of 24 new babies, small children and one young man who were paraded around and serenaded at the annual Sun Festival and Baby Blessing on Bolinas Beach last Sunday. Mark Butler (center) stepped in as the blessing’s leader this year; longtime leader Tom D’Onofrio...
06/18/2015
FIRE HAZARD: Vast swathes of young bishop pines that were seeded on the Inverness Ridge by the Mount Vision Fire of 1995 are being attacked by pitch canker disease, turning the landscape into a virtual tinder box. The airborne pathogen causes the ends of branches to die off; in some...
06/04/2015
ART: After purchasing a crane truck to use as a ladder, laboring nine months and welding 500 pounds of metal, Bruce Fox completed his “Knølhval” (Norwegian for humpback) in March on the Point Reyes Station mesa. The 13.5-foot steel sculpture, which spins in the wind, was Mr. Fox’s answer to...
05/28/2015
WESTERN WEEKEND 2015: Graciela Avalos, this year’s lone Western Weekend queen candidate, will ride Cajun—the paint horse she works with at Five Brooks—in Sunday’s parade down Main Street. Graciela is a sophmore at Tomales High, a third-generation West Marin resident and a second-generation Western Weekend queen, after her mother, Alicia,...
05/21/2015
NICASIO: The county is cutting down 11 large eucalyptus trees on Nicasio Valley Road near Lucas Valley Road, at a cost of about $130,000. After concerns were raised by residents, an arborist inspected the trees at the county’s request and deemed many in the stand a public health hazard. Taking...
05/14/2015
BOOKS: Winter wildlife docent Marta Lindsey shared her new children’s book last Saturday at Point Reyes National Seashore headquarters, flipping through reproductions of the illustrations as she told the story to a small crowd of youngsters. “Little Gray’s Great Migration” follows a baby whale and his mother on their journey...
