NEWS
Marin backs suit against ICE center
Marin County supervisors are joining an effort to block a planned ICE holding facility in Santa Clara County, but they disappointed immigrant rights activists who packed a board meeting last week to demand they do more. Last Tuesday, supervisors to file a friend-of-the-court brief supporting a lawsuit that seeks to halt the development of an…
Jury calls for consolidation of districts
The Marin County Civil Grand Jury is calling for greater consolidation of Marin’s 50-odd special districts, which provide fire protection, water, sanitation, and refuse collection, among other essential services. In a report released in June, the group argued that duplicative administrative systems, uneven service fees, and fragmented governance create inefficiency and unnecessary costs. Yet the…
Salmon close and plentiful at start of sport season
The recreational salmon fishing season opened in West Marin over the weekend amid rough seas and strong winds. Weighing the dangers of a gale warning, boats lined up along the coast on Saturday morning, and at Dillon Beach, most vessels remained at the dock. Only one ventured out because of the forecast. Even while contending…
From Bolinas, the latest in anti-tech tech
Tobi Earnheart-Gold already knew life was short. But on an unremarkable day in 2022, he realized the extent to which his iPhone seemed to be making it shorter. So, he sold it and went on a shopping spree. He bought a flip phone, a GPS, an MP3 player, a Fitbit, a digital camera, a watch,…
Game on for art scavengers
When Liz Lauter heard that MarinArts was organizing a countywide scavenger hunt, she jumped at the chance to volunteer the San Geronimo Valley Community Garden as a featured stop. Ms. Lauter, a Forest Knolls resident and the garden’s coordinator, hopes that visitors stopping by during the month-long hunt will see “what’s possible.” “They’ll see a…
Collaborations get funding
The West Marin Fund has selected four nonprofit-led collaborations to receive a total of $600,000 for projects aimed at expanding social services, preventing youth substance use, and preserving local history across coastal Marin. The grants, awarded through the Collaborative Impact Grants program, will provide $150,000 over two years to West Marin Community Services, the Bolinas…
FEATURES & OPINIONS
There is no safe place for Roundup in our watershed
Roundup is the most widely used weedkiller in the world. Its active ingredient, glyphosate, is sprayed on farms, roadsides, parks, and backyards, and traces of it now turn up in soil, rivers, rainfall, and even human urine. A decade ago, in 2015, the International Agency for Research on Cancer, the cancer arm of the World…
In the Fields, July 2, 2026
It’s tempting to trim the swollen tufts of lavender, each with a whisper of sweetness, that shift in the breeze on the eastern flank of Black Mountain. “But you have to be patient,” said DeAnna Schaeffer, owner of Point Reyes Lavender Company. She waits until the flowers turn a purple-gray hue before extracting the valuable…
