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Sep 9, 2025

Performing Stars Celebrates 35 Years of Helping Kids Get Ahead

Felecia Gaston founded Performing Stars 35 years ago, driven to fulfill a single goal: Give low-income little girls in Marin City free ballet lessons. However, the nonprofit’s origin story has its roots in 1960s rural Georgia. Gaston, just five years old, sat in the back seat of her mother’s car...
'Surviellance capitalism'
Aug 19, 2025

AI Costs Us Far More Than Money: The Hidden Price of Big Data Surveillance

Unbeknownst to much of the public, Big Tech exacts heavy tolls on public health, the environment and democracy.  The detrimental...
Moses and Gene Beard were among the original Marin City residents.
Aug 5, 2025

Marin City Pioneers, Unsung Heroes Helped Win WWII

The first Black people arrived in Marin City 83 years ago, on Aug. 13, 1942, recruited from across the...
Marin County beset with bad neighbors
Jul 29, 2025

Nightmare Neighbors, Marin Beset with Bad Behavior

Since the Pacific Sun’s first bad neighbor article ran two months ago, I’ve become a voyeur, deriving an odd...
Sausalito resident rebuilt Ukrainian homes.
Jul 22, 2025

Rebuilding Ukraine, Marin Man Volunteers in War-Torn Country

In April, Ron Albert sat in his comfortable Sausalito home watching a 60 Minutes interview with Ukraine President Volodymyr...
Controversy of Nicasio Reservoir
Jul 22, 2025

The Dammed: What happens if Nicasio Reservoir Expands?

Nicasio is a pastoral, idyllic town tucked between West Marin’s iconic towering redwoods, sprawling valleys and rolling hillsides. But...
The WRAP restraint system
Jul 15, 2025

Saving or Taking Lives? Controversy Over Restraint Device Used by Local Police

Part two of a series about a Marin family, mental health and local law enforcement. Critics liken the WRAP restraint...
Waterfront art and music festival returns to Petaluma
Jul 15, 2025

Petaluma’s Rivertown Revival Offers Music & Art

Now in its 14th year, Rivertown Revival returns to Steamer Landing Park on the McNear Peninsula Friday and Saturday,...
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