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Call to resign shakes up Bolinas School

12/13/2018
What makes parents in the Bolinas-Stinson School District move away or send their children to school elsewhere? Steve O’Neal, a Stinson Beach resident who moved to the area a year ago and this fall unsuccessfully challenged three longstanding incumbents for a board seat, has publicized his belief that a host...

Harassment suit tied to interim principal

12/13/2018
Rey Mayoral, the new temporary principal at West Marin and Inverness Schools, was caught in a nearly decade-long lawsuit with a former colleague from a school district in Oregon who described sexual assault and accused him of sexual harassment and retaliation. Though the case was ultimately settled, an appeals court...

At public forum, sheriff hears harsh criticism of cooperation with ICE

12/13/2018
Holding signs that read “families belong together” and “no persons are illegal,” immigration advocates made their way to the Board of Supervisors Chamber last Thursday to tell Marin County Sheriff Bob Doyle to end his cooperation with United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Their chant, “Doyle, listen, deportations are not...

Monarchs in deep decline on coast

12/13/2018
When Mia Monroe first began counting monarch butterflies in Marin County nearly three decades ago, she remembers seeing “tens of thousands of monarchs hanging—and when the sunshine hit them, it was like an orange cloud.” But in her time volunteering to count overwintering monarchs in West Marin, she has seen...

Bolinas class will map the night sky in monthly stargazing sessions

12/13/2018
Do you have an image of the night sky in your mind’s eye? Do you think about the winter solstice as the beginning of winter, or the middle? Is Mercury retrograde a literal backward transit, or a matter of perception? These are some of the inquiries that Don Jolley, the...

Supervisors approve two sections of coastal program

12/13/2018
With a few final tweaks that were sympathetic to agriculture, the Board of Supervisors on Tuesday unanimously approved two out of seven amendments that together replace the 1980 Local Coastal Program. The action sets the county on track to tackle the final portion of the update, which pertains to environmental...

Art Rogers Family Album, December 13, 2018

12/13/2018
Baby of the Week “Baby Boom” HAZEL GALINA PICKETT — BORN AUGUST 26, 2017 Daughter of Stephanie Bodnar and Matthew Pickett of Nicasio. Granddaughter of Christine Morgan of Santa Barbara and Alice and Robert Lewis of Rock Hall, Maryland and Douglas and Virginia Pickett of Doylestown, Pennsylvania.

Novato educator tapped to lead West Marin School during principal's absence

12/06/2018
A retired Novato educator has taken the helm at West Marin and Inverness Schools, where the interim principal is out on an unexpected medical leave. Rey Mayoral, a native Spanish speaker with nearly four decades of experience as a public-school principal, started part-time work last week. He will stay until...

Nicasio's fiber optic network goes live

12/06/2018
For years, when Eric Blantz tried to work out of his home in Nicasio, his Skype calls with clients in Africa would routinely drop. “It was because I had no service, not them,” said Mr. Blantz, who at the time worked for a company that delivers computing and broadband assistance...

Sheriff's Office to once again enforce vehicle code on private roads of Bolinas

12/06/2018
Sheriff’s deputies will soon enforce state and county vehicle regulations on the privately maintained roads in Bolinas, following a discovery a year ago that they did not have the power to do so, despite longstanding practice. On Tuesday, the Board of Supervisors adopted an ordinance that designates a long list...

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