Larry Clinton/Sausalito Historical Society The SF Mime Troupe show that was originally scheduled to play at the Mill Valley Rec Center on Thursday, July 27, has been rescheduled for Wednesday, Aug. 30, due to a cast member’s bout of COVID-19. The new musical, BREAKDOWN, introduces a social worker … [Read more...] about SF Mime Troupe: 64 years of guerilla theater
San Rafael cops chase down fleeing man; confiscate a loaded handgun
During the night of AUG. 11, SRPD Officers found a suspect who had two warrants for his arrest in the 400 block of Canal Street. When the officers went to stop the suspect, he began to run away on foot. After a brief foot chase into the 300 block of Canal Street, the suspect was captured. During … [Read more...] about San Rafael cops chase down fleeing man; confiscate a loaded handgun
50 years ago: Novato Boys Club broke ground
Mike Read/Pages From The Past 100 Years Ago August 1923 – G. W. Guth was up from San Francisco spending a week's vacation with the home folks. Knowing the beneficial results of a city chap getting close to nature and having the pores of his skin opened, dad put the son to work in the … [Read more...] about 50 years ago: Novato Boys Club broke ground
San Rafael cops plead ‘not guilty’
The two ex-San Rafael police officers accused of roughing up a day worker drinking on the curb have last summer pleaded not guilty. They appeared in court on Aug. 11 along with many police supporters critical of the charges. The alleged victim – Julio Jimenez Lopez, 37 – also had supporters in the … [Read more...] about San Rafael cops plead ‘not guilty’
No. 1 rule in Marin: Don’t mess with seniors in the wild, especially when startled or threatened, or ‘how I got booed while speaking at the Novato Rotary Club’
Sherman R. Frederick/Properly Subversive I don’t often get booed when speaking publicly. That's mostly because I don’t often speak publicly. But, I was at the Sunrise Rotary Club on Tuesday talking to Rotarians at Moylan’s in Novato. The meeting started at 7 a.m. I arrived half an hour … [Read more...] about No. 1 rule in Marin: Don’t mess with seniors in the wild, especially when startled or threatened, or ‘how I got booed while speaking at the Novato Rotary Club’
This week’s ‘Spin Around Marin’: Theater, health care quality & Mill Valley Library talks
Novato Theater The Novato Theater Company’s first show of its 103rd season is The Addams Family. The show is based on the characters created by Charles Addams in his ghoulish cartoons with music and lyrics by Andrew Lippa and book by Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice. Opening on … [Read more...] about This week’s ‘Spin Around Marin’: Theater, health care quality & Mill Valley Library talks
Marin 911: Drunk Sausalito woman says she was assaulted while dancing in a bar
MILL VALLEY Flashing Gun: A kid entered a coffee shop on Camino Alto on Aug. 8 and brandished a gold toy gun, pulling it out in front of other kids. A concerned citizen called the cops who had a talk with the kid. Cops released the kid to his parents. Gone: A resident of Lovell Avenue … [Read more...] about Marin 911: Drunk Sausalito woman says she was assaulted while dancing in a bar
Tequila Sunrise – a drink with big Marin history
PHOTO FROM www.TheTrident.Net Bobby Lazoff, above, in his element at the Trident. Larry Clinton/Sausalito Historical Society June 19 was National Tequila Sunrise Day, and nowhere was that momentous occasion celebrated more righteously than here in Sausalito, where the modern version of … [Read more...] about Tequila Sunrise – a drink with big Marin history
1923: A bumper apricot crop in Novato
Mike Read/Pages From The Past 100 Years AgoAugust 1923– Peoples’ garage is building an additional shop for their new garage which will be run under the management.– A Heavy Fruit Crop. – Marin county soil will produce virtually every kind of fruit, and it is seldom that you find a home without … [Read more...] about 1923: A bumper apricot crop in Novato
This week in History – Aug. 16 – 23
1305 On Aug. 23 in London, William Wallace was executed for treason, condemned for leading Scottish resistance forces during the first years of the long and ultimately successful struggle to free Scotland from English rule. 1827 Jedediah Smith and his party returned from California … [Read more...] about This week in History – Aug. 16 – 23