Free e–waste recycling will come to 28 Liberty Ship Way in Sausalito from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. on Saturday, February 11. Area residents are encouraged to bring old and worn–out electronic equipment for recycling and safe disposal. Hazardous waste and household appliances (other than microwaves) are not accepted. Additional...
Cormorant feeding frenzies like the one in the accompanying photo are a good sign that herring have returned to the Bay. According to the California Dept. of Fish and Wildlife, “In California, herring are found offshore during the spring and summer months foraging in the open ocean. The largest spawning...
Dan Cassidy of Main Dock is the art curator for the Bay Model, and he’s organizing an art exhibit February 14, 2023—April 24, 2023 to feature local artists from our floating homes. Artists from our community are invited to bring one artwork, ready to hang, to the Bay Model between...
Marin City will celebrate Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Day this Monday, January 16. The theme of the 24th annual celebration is ‘Blessed Community in Action’. Activities will kick off with a table talk symposium from 10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. at the Senior Center at 640 Drake Ave. A...
The expiration or “use by” dates for at-home QuickVue COVID tests provided by Marin County Public Health have been extended four months. For example, those with expiration dates in February now expire in June. To confirm expiration dates of any tests you have on hand, check this FDA handout. In addition,...
Juanita Musson was the colorful, no–nonsense proprietor of Juanita’s Galley on the Sausalito waterfront in the early 1960s. “By her own account, Juanita Musson has opened and closed 11 restaurants since the 1950s,” wrote S.F. Chronicle critic Grace Ann Walden in 2002. “The first was Juanita’s Galley located on Gate...
This fall, Georgia students participated in the annual Reading Bowl challenge, which invites students statewide to read all the Georgia Children’s Book Award Finalists. I was lucky to zoom into Media Specialist Abby Shapiro’s library to meet her reading club members and talk to them about my children’s novel, Muffled....
The Sausalito Center for The Arts offers unique holiday shopping next Saturday, December 17 from 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Over 20 local merchants, makers and artists, including West Pier’s Liz Brott, will display their wares indoors at the newly remodeled Bank of America Building at 750 Bridgeway. Visitors will...
In 1999, a fire destroyed the waterfront home of one of Sausalito’s more colorful residents: former porn star and prostitute Annie Sprinkle. Her home was located in Varda Landing, near the ferry Vallejo. In a fundraising appeal posted on Compuserve immediately after the fire, a friend of Annie’s wrote: “Thankfully,...
A stroll across the lawn and paths of the newly created Waldo Point Park at Bridgeway and Gate 6 Road will take you over the historic resting place of the Charles Van Damme ferry, a 1916 side paddle wheeler that, in its heyday, ferried people, cattle, cargo, and cars to...