Sherman R. Frederick/Properly Subversive I don’t know if I’d call it “amazing” how so many people claim to love and protect Marin’s environment, only then to shrug a collective shoulder at the Binford Road homeless encampment. “Strange” might be a better word. Protecting the environment … [Read more...] about Move Binford Road semi-mobile homeless camp to Muir Woods
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New Hollywood diversity rules a timely topic for this year’s Mill Valley Film Festival
Sherman R. Frederick/Properly Subversive Every October Marin becomes the center of the movie-making planet when the Mill Valley Film Festival kicks off, featuring scores of renowned films. Marin’s hard core movie aficionados are in heaven. I’m not quite in the aficionados category. But, I do … [Read more...] about New Hollywood diversity rules a timely topic for this year’s Mill Valley Film Festival
Pandemic in Marin (and everywhere else) officially over
The Marin County Health Department reported that the World Health Organization last week declared the End of the Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC). Also for the first time in 2023, Marin COVID Level transitioned from Medium to Low based on declining hospitalizations and virus … [Read more...] about Pandemic in Marin (and everywhere else) officially over
Binford Road protest scheduled in front of Eric Lucan’s birthday fundraiser
Novato Advance Marinscope Members of a group calling itself the “Friends of Rush Creek” are planning to protest on Friday in front of a fundraiser for Marin County Board of Supervisor Eric Lucan. Lucan is holding a $75-per-plate birthday fundraiser for himself at 5400 Hanna Ranch Road … [Read more...] about Binford Road protest scheduled in front of Eric Lucan’s birthday fundraiser
Highway 37 set to close for railroad crossing repair
The Sonoma-Marin Area Rail Transit District (SMART) announced that SMART contractor Stacy and Witbeck will close State Highway 37 to reconstruct the railroad crossing near the junction with Highway 121 at Sears Point on Saturday, May 20, at 3:00 a.m. and will reopen on Sunday, May 21, at 11 … [Read more...] about Highway 37 set to close for railroad crossing repair
This week’s ‘Spin Around Marin’
Fairfax library improvement Improvements to the Fairfax Library are set to begin May 15, resulting in a closure of the branch through May 24. The Marin County Free Library Facility at 2097 Sir Francis Drake Boulevard will be brought up to code for smoke detection and fire suppression … [Read more...] about This week’s ‘Spin Around Marin’
Xylazine (‘Tranq’) detected in Marin’s wastewater; COVID-19 officially declared over
Last week, Marin County Public Health issued a Public Health Advisory to local clinicians after xylazine, a potent tranquilizer, was detected in Marin County wastewater. Wastewater has emerged as a valuable tool for measuring virus levels and detecting substances of … [Read more...] about Xylazine (‘Tranq’) detected in Marin’s wastewater; COVID-19 officially declared over
Aren’t you glad we banned plastic straws?
Sherman R. Frederick/Properly Subversive This column specializes in “fart in the elevator” questions. Here’s a good one for Marin elected officials. You’re hell on plastic straws, banning them under the woke rubric that they contribute to a trashy environment. Now, we’re on the verge of … [Read more...] about Aren’t you glad we banned plastic straws?
Sawyer and Cordellos to be inducted into the Dipsea Hall of Fame
The Dipsea Hall of Fame induction dinner and scholarship ceremony on Friday, June 9, in Sausalito will be one for the ages. Megan McGowan Sawyer, who won back-to-back Dipsea races before she was a teenager, and the late Harry Cordellos of Novato, who competed in more than a dozen Dipseas though … [Read more...] about Sawyer and Cordellos to be inducted into the Dipsea Hall of Fame
And now for something completely different — Cowboy Church?
Sherman R. Frederick/Properly Subversive I have no beef – zero, nada – with religious traditions not my own. This Easter we experienced, as the boys in the old Monty Python comedy troupe used to say, “something completely different.” Instead of the traditional Easter Mass, we attended a … [Read more...] about And now for something completely different — Cowboy Church?