“It’s just a tremendous loss to our community,” said Dixie Superintendent Jason Yamashiro. “Our hearts go out to the family and to everyone who’s grieving.”. He said an impromptu shrine was growing Tuesday outside the Dixie Elementary School office in upper Lucas Valley. “As you can imagine, we are all shocked and saddened to hear this news,” Yamashiro said.

“We didn’t think a survey was going to get us where we needed to be,” said Trustee Alissa Chacko, who worked with Trustee Mark Schott to prepare a resolution for a non-binding advisory measure to be placed on the general election ballot in 2020 or sooner, depending on financing. “This is really an issue for the community, so we need to hear from the community.

A male 20-something student pops an empty soda can into a slot on the side of a tall, body-sized, black plastic Coke bottle that sits in the College of Marin cafeteria at the Kentfield campus. and hundreds of others on campus who dutifully try to recycle — is being deceived, says Aubrey Dougherty and Laurel Halvorson, president and vice president, respectively, of COM’s Environmental Action Club.

Officials of the Dixie School District said they were “saddened” and “disappointed” by vandalism over the weekend of a sign at Dixie Elementary School in north San Rafael. apparently part of the ongoing controversy over whether to drop the name Dixie due to what some say are potential ties to racist, pro-slavery or Confederacy overtones — consisted of white paint applied over the word “Dixie” on the sign Friday evening.

As far-flung cities and states across the nation mull removal of Confederate flags, monuments and statues that some say celebrate racism, a mostly white Marin school district thousands of miles west has joined the fray due to its Civil War-era name: Dixie. Some say a name that is linked with not only the South but also the Confederacy sends a confusing and racially charged message to students and adults who don’t understand why it exists in California.

San Rafael residents have launched a campaign to block cellphone companies from attempting to build 5G towers in Marin. The 5G towers, which would allow for faster and higher-capacity video streaming and other transmissions, could exacerbate health symptoms already suspected as a result of exposure to electromagnetic fields, Vicki Sievers, of the EMF Safety Network, told the San Rafael City Council on Monday.

San Rafael residents have launched a campaign to block cellphone companies from attempting to build 5G towers in Marin. The 5G towers, which would allow for faster and higher-capacity video streaming and other transmissions, could exacerbate health symptoms already suspected as a result of exposure to electromagnetic fields, Vicki Sievers, of the EMF Safety Network, told the San Rafael City Council on Monday.

The hikes, effective Sept. 1 at two buildings of 20 units each, would increase the average rent on a two-bedroom apartment from the current $1,900 per month to $2,700 per month. “We have 62 students that live in one of the two (affected) apartment buildings,” said San Rafael City Schools Superintendent Michael Watenpaugh, one of about a dozen speakers at a rally Friday before about 100 people in downtown San Rafael.

San Rafael officials have selected 16 medical cannabis businesses to be granted licenses to operate within city limits, under a new program — the first to launch in Marin under the new state cannabis regulations. “We’re really happy with the results,” said Danielle O’Leary, city economic development director, referring to the application process over the last three months.

A black man and his family kicked out of a Sausalito store last month while the shopkeeper telephoned police is calling for the city to enact a “zero tolerance” policy against such incidents, which he called racially motivated. “I don’t want to hurt the man’s livelihood,” Bay Area resident Anthony O’Neill said of shopkeeper Hooshang Seda, proprietor of Quest Casuals clothing store at 673 Bridgeway.

The pink slabs of sustainably farmed salmon glittered with moisture as they awaited cooking and packaging at the Ceres Community Project kitchen in San Rafael. In a few hours, they would become the lead item in June Celeste’s dinner of Moroccan spice rubbed salmon, quinoa pilaf and seasonal sauteed organic vegetables.

A collision between a dump truck and a car Thursday morning left the truck dangling perilously over the southbound Highway 101 overpass at Fourth Street in downtown San Rafael, dumping its load of trees and vegetation on four parked cars below. California Highway Patrol Officer Andrew Barclay said the call came in at 9:39 a.m., closing downtown streets and placing most of downtown in gridlock.

When she heard in April that a high school boy in Marin had made a working plastic 3-D hand for a man in Romania who had lost his own in an accident, Victoria Thormodsqaard thought she would check it out. “A couple of friends called me, and then I read the article (in the Independent Journal),” said the 62-year-old Mill Valley woman, whose right arm was amputated below the elbow on May 5, 2016 to prevent the spread of a cancerous tumor.

A proposed 140-room “urban contemporary hotel” in downtown San Rafael got some poor marks for design but good grades on location in a public meeting this week. “I like modern design, but this is modern just slammed in your face — it’s hard to swallow,” said Stewart Summers, vice chairman of the San Rafael Design Review Board, at Tuesday’s public meeting.

The San Rafael Planning Commission split sharply this week over whether to place a high-end senior assisted living center on a piece of prime downtown real estate that some argued should be kept instead for affordable, transit-oriented workforce housing. After more than two hours of debate and public comment, commissioners voted 4-2 in favor of the four-story, 77-unit project at 800 Mission Ave. to be operated by Seattle-based Aegis Living and proposed by developer Tom Monahan of Mt.

When producers for the “Ellen” TV show booked a special audience for the “1 Million Acts of Good” show on Jan. 26, Marin native Keri Vellis was on the list. Vellis, 45, a mother of six and then-author of a self-published foster kids’ picture book titled “Sometimes,” came to the show’s attention because of her written and spoken efforts to show foster kids that they are not alone.