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I found a bobcat scratching post a while back, in a remote ravine off one of the fingers of Drakes Estero. The deep willow thicket was near a small pond with a lot of mixed habitat, so I thought it would be interesting to put a trail camera on it. Bobcats, like house cats, regularly The post The […]

What a glorious spring. Everywhere you look, the beautiful dance of life is taking another turn. Nature is exquisitely tuned to the rhythm that keeps the dance humming in a harmonious, synchronized fashion. The blooming of flowers attracting the pollinating insects and then the migratory birds. The […]

My previous columns about how Inverness confronted its perennial problem of speeders zooming through the village center got us as far as late 2003. That’s when the county’s highway engineers released data from traffic surveys conducted before and after a test median defined by temporary […]

When Rachel and Bill Bonini bought the Continental Inn from Penny Hammond last fall, they had no idea they were headed into one of the longest and gloomiest winters Tomales had seen in decades. Tourism slowed from Muir Beach to Dillon Beach and everywhere in between. Now, as travelers far and wide […]

The Marin County Fire Department will remove and dim several lights around the Point Reyes Station firehouse, the latest win by the local village association to make West Marin a dark sky reserve. Though the area is likely several years away from earning the designation, the changes will have an […]

Madeline Nieto Hope has worked hard for years to make Western Weekend reflect all West Marin, both old-timers and newcomers, Anglos and Latinos. This year, as the grand marshal of the festival’s 75th parade, she hopes the events will celebrate the area’s ranching roots from both the […]

When Dave Cort took the job of executive director at the San Geronimo Valley Community Center in June 1991, it was a part-time role with just three requirements: a truck, the ability to lift over 100 pounds, and a willingness to along with others.  The community center had two paid positions […]

On the night Noe Rodriguez rode his new Ducati motorcycle back to his Inverness Park home, the unspeakable happened: He collided with a car and was left paralyzed from the chest down. Mr. Rodriguez, a big-hearted 42-year-old who always wears a smile, is adored around West Marin, where he has lived […]

The grassroots campaign to restore the tiny Bolinas Post Office—propelled by artwork, poetry, loads of letters and even an exorcism—has been brought to the attention of the United States Postmaster General. “It’s actually really big for our little community to get that to […]

The full moon of June 3 brings some extreme morning low tides. This will be the Lotus Moon in Chinese tradition, to remind us to nurture beauty from adversity like the beautiful aquatic flowers that bloom out of muddy ponds. The planet Venus is at elongation, its highest annual point on the western […]