Corte Madera News

Kentfield schools Superintendent Mary Jo Pettegrew wants the state Legislature to take $600,000 of her district's funds.

I got to know Vicki through her blog, Speak Softly...And Carry the Proverbial Baton Grande .

Corte Madera officials are pondering what to do, if anything, about two pot clubs that have quietly sprung up in an office complex, suddenly making the sleepy central Marin town the cannabis collective capital of Marin.

Marin will again serve up Fourth of July activities throughout the county ranging from traditional pancake breakfasts in Novato, Corte Madera and Marinwood to Inverness foot races, outdoor music in Nicasio and bayside fireworks in Sausalito.

Robert Charles Sudar is being held in lieu of $1.5 million bail pending sentencing.

Construction continues on the 32,000-square-foot Tamalpais Commons on Miller Avenue in Mill Valley.

Free tutoring in use of the Internet is Mondays at the Corte Madera Library at 707 Meadowsweet Drive.

Movies , posted by Steve Newberry, a resident of the Corte Madera neighborhood, 38 minutes ago Anybody see the item about the Academy Awards increasing the number of best picture nominees from 5 to 10? Is this a cynical ploy for the movie industry to sell more tickets in January and February or a way to honor more deserving films? Comments

The Tamalpais Commons housing and retail development under construction along the Miller Avenue major thoroughfare of this small southern Marin County city is set to be a certified green project.

In the early 1900s, stairways were constructed to connect the homes high on the hills of Corte Madera with the train station, school and businesses.

At Market and Seventh on Tuesday, I watched two tourists with cameras slung around their necks speed-walking in an attempt to scurry away from a man of the streets following them, gaining on them and yelling.

The Inn Marin in Novato underwent a $2 million renovation a few years ago that included hard bamboo floors of a mahogany color, burgundy bed spreads and pale gold paint on the walls of each hotel room.

Q: Membership in the GOP is dwindling. What can the "party of Lincoln" do to entice the next generation of voters? In order to gain supporters the GOP should not associate their political beliefs with white old men and Satan.

If you're a "frequent flyer," perhaps you've enjoyed his company, as Patrick Garcia drives you to San Francisco in a Sonoma Airporter.

Marin County supervisors on Tuesday pledged to find out why county employees violated - more than 90 times - an ordinance that banned cancer-causing pesticides.

Edith Gelles, senior scholar at Standford University's Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research, recounts the fifty-four year marriage of Abigail and John Adams.

In this photo from Thursday, May 28, 2009, San Quentin prison is seen in the background as children run on a field in Corte Madera, Calif.

Ahhh, the 1950s. We've just seen the effect those postwar, repressed times had on a black family in San Francisco's Sunset District in "The Story of a Marriage" by Andrew Sean Greer.

A Novato medical marijuana dispensary ordered with eviction a month ago is still open for business, and its lawyer expects it to be open for a long time to come.

The classic stereotype of a Deadhead is the aging burnout, the elder who assaults our senses with a salt-and-pepper ponytail and let-it-be optimism.