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Amid crisis, new help for Rosenthal

04/05/2012
After an emergency meeting Tuesday evening in Tomales, the Shoreline Unified School District Board of Trustees voted unanimously to hire an interim administrator to bolster leadership at Tomales High for the remainder of the school year. The move was made at the strong recommendation of Marin County Superintendent of Schools...

Offender injures two in Bolinas

04/05/2012
Thoren Manetta, a 24-year-old Bolinas resident who served prison time for his role in the 2008 mob beating of the colorful street personality Ricky Green, is the lone suspect in an altercation that took place outside Smiley’s Schooner Saloon near midnight on Friday, March 23. Two men, both from out...

West Marin principal resigns

03/29/2012
Anne Harris is no longer serving as the principal of West Marin and Inverness Schools, where she has worked for the past six years. Harris has been placed on administrative leave until the end of the school year. Former principal Jim Patterson will assume the post in the interim, beginning...

Park misused sound data in oyster EIS

03/29/2012
Data indicating high levels of sound pollution from equipment at Drakes Bay Oyster Company was knowingly misrepresented by the National Park Service in its draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) on the company, according to previous drafts of the document and new sound recordings taken at the farm. Point Reyes National...

Science and self-reliance, outdoors

03/29/2012
Eighteen-year-old Charity Befford lives in the projects of San Francisco’s Hunters Point neighborhood. The monthly groceries her single mom buys with traded food stamps, she says, often don’t go far enough to last the two of them and the several half-brothers who frequently visit. Befford doesn’t much like school and...

Interior finds draft oyster EIS adequate

03/22/2012
An independent peer review released Monday by the Department of the Interior has backed the draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) on Drakes Bay Oyster Company while highlighting several of its shortcomings—and sparking claims that one author had conflicting interests and another had been misled by faulty data. A number of...

Late rains won’t stop ag emergency

03/22/2012
The rain that pummeled West Marin last week was a welcome boon to area ranchers and dairymen struggling from an exceptionally dry winter, but it was far from enough to allay fears of impending summer drought or stiflingly high feed costs, some contend. “We wanted that rain bad,” John Taylor,...

Parents turn out for equity talk

03/22/2012
An outpouring of sentiment at Shoreline Unified School District’s National Equity Project public forum last week revealed widespread community interest in tackling inequality. The forum, held at Tomales Elementary School, was part of Shoreline’s collaboration with the Oakland-based nonprofit to address equity-related issues, an initiative funded by a grant from...

Lagunitas Waldorf program to pursue charter school petition

03/22/2012
Representatives from the Lagunitas Waldorf-Inspired Program read an open letter to the Lagunitas School Board on Tuesday indicating their intention to submit a petition at April’s board meeting for independent charter school status. Once the petition is submitted, the board has 30 days to conduct a public hearing and 60...

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