Last week we recapped tips for staying safe in public, from a seminar given by Sausalito police officer Sean Smagalski for Sausalito Village. Officer Smagalski and audience members also offered the following tips for thwarting phone scams and email fraud: The most common fraud schemes today use tactics that instill...
On May 15, Sausalito Village hosted a community safety forum led by Officer Sean Smagalski of the Sausalito Police Department. Here are some of the tips shared by officer Smagalski and members of the audience: The most common crimes in Sausalito are property crimes. Violent crime is minimal, but personal...
Sausalito and neighboring communities such as ours have been hit by a rash of recent thefts from vehicles. You can do your part to reduce the likelihood of theft by taking the following precautions: Remove all valuables from your vehicle. Don’t leave any visible items inside your vehicle, including mobile...
As FHA President Michael Labate informed the community by email last week, there has been a rash of thefts of catalytic converters from the floating home parking lots in recent weeks. One neighbor on Gate 6 ½ had two thefts in one week from the same Toyota Prius. On certain...
An email scam that swept through the FHA Board last year is back creeping around Southern Marin—in a slightly different form, but just as nasty. Last year several Board members got emails supposedly from President Michael Labate asking them to help out by purchasing gift cards. One alternate rep complied,...
A floating home resident recently donated these two chairs and table for the community and public’s enjoyment at the end of the jetty in the public park. The table was the first to go, then the chair covers. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if they were miraculously returned for all to...
Getting packages delivered to the door has always required a little extra effort from our delivery drivers. Lately, some drivers have taken the shortcut of leaving parcels at the head of the docks, where they make for easy pickings. Hardest hit are the docks with gates at the entryway—A Dock’s...
The thing about emergency preparedness, and warnings, is that the need for this information never goes away. Some things are seasonal—checking your lines before the winter storms, or planning for king tides. For events such as earthquakes we need to be prepared year-round as there’s no predicting when a catastrophic...
WHAT: Join the Tunnel Lighting Brigade—light up the Highway 101 pedestrian underpass. WHEN: Saturday, December 16 at 6 p.m. Help keep the focus on resolving a local problem, as neighbors and concerned citizens light up the tunnel connecting Marin City with Sausalito. Starting at 6 p.m., folks from Marin City (on...
On the day after Thanksgiving, two vehicles belonging to visitors to Gate 6 1/2 were broken into and burglarized in broad daylight. The smash-and-grabs were reported to the sheriff’s office, and two deputies responded to take a report. These are the latest incidents of vandalism or burglary in our parking lots....