Gate 6 ½ resident Claudia Cowan is a senior correspondent for Fox News, and recently produced a podcast recognizing the 45th anniversary of a shocking kidnapping in Chowchilla, CA, in 1976. On July 15, 1976, a school bus carrying 26 schoolchildren ages 5 to 14 and their driver vanished without...
A new documentary entitled ‘A Tour of Sausalito’s Marinship’ will be screened as part of a special program at the Sausalito Library at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, March 11. A previous screening of this film was announced at the FHA Annual Meeting, and for those who didn’t get to see...
The Marin City Community Services District will host its annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration on Saturday, February 26. Born in Atlanta, Georgia in 1929, Dr. King received the Nobel Prize for Civil Rights and Social Justice. On Saturday, a commemorative parade will be held from 10:00 a.m. to...
The Sausalito Community Boating Center has secured the banquet room at the Spinnaker Restaurant to host the 9th annual SCBC Herring Festival on Thursday, Feb. 24. Tickets are on sale on the SCBC website. Attendance at the Spinnaker will be limited to ensure social distancing, but folks far and...
The Bay Model will exhibit photos from Catherine Lyons-Labate’s book SAUSALITO once upon a waterfront from February 15—March 26. These photos tell a story of people from all walks of life who came together on the waters of Sausalito and created a community like no other. Catherine hitchhiked to the...
Are you interested in what Sausalito’s future housing options look like? Are you interested in senior housing or workforce housing? Now is the time to speak up. Every 8 years, the city must submit its housing plans to the state through a document called the Housing Element. Sausalito’s next housing...
Recently we mentioned a plan, put forth by Michael Haas, to turn the drydocks in Richardson’s Bay into a “Lunar Village,” a completely self–sufficient biosphere. The plan never materialized, but that didn’t stop Haas, AKA “the Shaman of Rainbow Bay,” from creating another fantasy for an old dredging barge moored...
The following event has been rescheduled until May 19 due to Covid-19 concerns: Bonny Meyer, who co-founded Silver Oak Cellars with her wine legend husband Justin, has written a memoir of the making of one of Napa Valley’s most iconic wineries. Perfectly Paired is an intimate portrayal of their love...
Long before Forbes Kiddoo’s man–made island gained fame in the 1980s, a set of dry docks became a major landmark in Richardson’s Bay. In a two–part series for Marinscope, Annie Sutter wrote about the four drydocks, “the many tons of wood, iron and granite ballast that were deposited in Richardson...
For the second holiday season, a mysterious Santa Claus has been zipping around Gate 6 on a one–reindeer–powered trike. In addition to scooting through the parking lots, he spins an occasional brodie in the Bridgeway intersection, then rides off into the night without so much as a Ho-Ho-Ho. Let’s wish...