At 6 years old, Rhett Krawitt, a tiny blond kindergartener at Reed Elementary School in Tiburon, needed a footstool to reach the microphone to address the Marin Board of Supervisors in 2015. It was just a week after two Marin children were diagnosed with measles in connection with the outbreak in Disneyland that began in December 2014.

San Domenico School senior Lily Cline, a lead actor in the recent student film “Forgotten Voices,” is one of 13 winners of a national high school songwriting challenge for her ballad in the movie. Cline, 17, of San Rafael said the film’s message about Marin’s history of Asian American discrimination — and the song, “Ganbare,” Japanese for “work hard” — were meaningful to her personally.

San Rafael teenager Sophia Bromberg, who grew up emulating the pop singer Ariana Grande, will get one-on-one coaching from her idol after a successful blind audition on NBC-TV’s “The Voice.”. Bromberg chose Grande from among three judges who turned their chairs around — signifying they liked what they heard and wanted Bromberg on their teams — during Monday’s episode of the singing competition show.

The premiere of “Forgotten Voices,” a musical film shot on location in Marin, is set for this weekend at San Domenico School in San Anselmo. The production, which includes scenes from China Camp State Park in San Rafael, Angel Island and the school’s own bucolic campus, was written, produced and directed by 14 students under the guidance of Erica Smith, San Domenico’s director of dance and theater arts.

Living in fitness-friendly Marin, anti-aging may be close to a sacrosanct idea in the eyes of the county’s many health and wellness buffs over age 45. Not as evident, however, is is a somewhat nasty difference of opinions among Marin’s anti-aging experts

A judge declined to grant a temporary restraining order Thursday that would have blocked Marin schools from enforcing an outdoor mask requirement for students. Novato Charter School parent Juliana Makin sought the order on Wednesday, saying the county pol

Marin students returned to campus Tuesday amid excitement and unrest as educators greeted students and heard from angry protesters. Marin’s 40,000 public, private and independent students returned to the classroom for the fall term this week into the arms of welcoming teachers. “It’s good to have the kids back, and to open for the first day in the right way,” said Tehniat Cheema, principal of Loma Verde Elementary School in Novato.

Joe Mueller’s calendar for spring semester 2023 has but one entry on it so far: “First marine biology class at new Bolinas field station.” Despite the event being two years away, Mueller, a biology instructor at College of Marin, is ready. This week’s dem

The trustees of the Tamalpais Union High School District have approved Archie Williams High School as the new name to replace Sir Francis Drake, the San Anselmo high school’s moniker for the past 70 years. The 5-0 vote on Tuesday, after more than an hour of public comment, followed last Thursday’s near-unanimous choice of Williams by the Drake Leadership Council.

Late Olympic gold medalist Archie Williams, a former teacher and coach at Sir Francis Drake High School, has been chosen as the embattled school’s new namesake after a historic racial reckoning triggered by last year’s murder of George Floyd and the aftermath of social injustice protests. After more than nine months of controversy, the Drake Leadership Council voted 13-0 Thursday, with one abstention, in favor of recommending Archie Williams’ name to grace the school instead of Drake, a 16th century English explorer whose early voyages were linked to the slave trade.

In a dramatic turnaround after weeks of community protests, Novato Unified School District officials said they are abandoning plans to close an elementary school in the near future. Superintendent Kris Cosca, addressing the board of trustees on Tuesday, said the district “should take a pause.”. “I believe our No. 1 priority needs to be the safe and full reopening of our schools in the 2021-22 school year and the enrollment of new and returning students into our system,” Cosca said.