Bolinas News

In our Summer Travel issue , which hit newsstands on Sunday, Adam Sachs professes his love for Marin County , a place he calls "the most beautiful, bucolic, privileged, liberal, hippie-dippie place on the earth." Here's where to eat, sleep and shop in San Francisco's neighbor to the north.

In its first report on libraries in more than a decade, the county's independent watchdog said the financially strapped Marin County Free Library must develop clearer plans of how to fund its operations and do a better job consulting with its employees and the public about how it spends taxpayer money.

A burglary suspect was chased down the street by an impromptu posse Tuesday in Stinson Beach, setting off a multi-agency coastal manhunt for a naked man with a red purse, the sheriff's department said.

On May 2, 1918, longtime Fairfax resident Frank Healion's wedding gave him a little break from an active business life.

Oversight of an annual $2.5 million Marin County library tax fund has been ineffective, with "lack of involvement" from a watchdog panel that operates in the dark compounded by a fragmented budget that makes expenses difficult to track, Marin's civil grand jury asserted.

In this IJ archive photo, a man and woman float by Kent Island in a boat in Bolinas Lagoon near Bolinas, Calif.

Back to Point Reyes, the little slice of paradise to our north. Two weekends in a row - very different trips, but the same overwhelming awesomeness of place.

When Bill Pierce visited the dam at Arroyo Hondo Creek one afternoon in April, the soft brush of water over the creek bed was not what he wanted to hear.

This week our family headed out to explore some of the less traveled and more challenging trails just outside of Fairfax.

A library of seeds, not books. A microbial solution made from rice and water that can loosen a gardener's dependence on chemical fertilizer.