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Four Novato Rotary Clubs Team Up for Greater Impact

In an era when civic organizations often compete for volunteers and attention, four Rotary clubs in Novato have decided there is a better way: Stop competing and start collaborating. Over the past two years, the Rotary Club of Novato, the Rotary Club of Ignacio, the Rotary Club of Novato Evening...
At ExtraFood’s SOUPer Food Kitchen, celebrity chef Heidi Krahling and volunteers prepare 600 meals weekly for low-income seniors and homebound seniors.

Hunger Amid Abundance: Food Insecurity Grows in North Bay

For many people in Marin and Sonoma counties, the paycheck runs out before the bills are paid. That leaves...
The defining trend in contemporary fatherhood isn’t authority so much as presence. Like actually being there.

North Bay’s Next Gen Fathers are Rewriting the Job Description

Once upon a time, fatherhood came with a fairly straightforward job description: Bring home the paycheck, mow the lawn,...
Juneteenth, a federal holiday, commemorates June 19, 1865, the day that U.S. Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger and more than 2,000 Union soldiers posted notices in Galveston, Texas, announcing the end of slavery.

Juneteenth Celebrations, Marin Marks the Day and its Meaning

The Emancipation Proclamation freed enslaved people in Confederate states in 1863, yet it took another two and a half...
The glassy-winged sharpshooter just hitched a ride from a Fresno nursery to Costco stores across Northern California, including those in Sonoma and Marin counties.

Invasive Glassy-Winged Sharpshooter Found in North Bay Costco Stores

As if the wine industry didn’t have enough issues—declining consumption and climate change to start—now an invasive insect that...
The Marin Rapid Response Network, part of the Marin Multicultural Center, offers a three-hour training for ICE legal observers

Legal Observers Document ICE Activity in Marin

Part of my job as a reporter involves chronicling what I see and hear.  In some ways, it’s similar to...
Homeless camp residents break bread together with their housed neighbors at weekly dinners.

Around the Table: Marin Residents Dine with Their Unhoused Neighbors

After a fire ravaged a sanctioned Novato homeless encampment two years ago, a local woman stepped in to lend...
What James Freebury can remember of his aneurysm was a blinding headache.

The Odyssey of James Freebury, a Personal Encounter With the Author of ‘A Man...

I have met James Freebury only twice. And both times after his accident. Our relationship was carried out over...
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