The National Weather Service has issued a freeze warning for Marin County interior valleys tonight. Much of urban Sausalito has extra natural defenses against borderline freezing temperatures and was not named as an especially vulnerable area in the alert, but if the thermometer starts dipping down into the high 20's more homes will have garden damage. San Rafael … [Read more...]

  A water main burst last night on Gate Five Road near Coloma St. (in front of a building where we once had an office), opening a sinkhole and flooding nearby businesses. It took hours for MMWD to turn off the main and it is not expected to be repaired until Friday. In the meantime, if you're going anywhere on Gate Five Road on the part of the road that parallels … [Read more...]

  The alignment of the moon and the sun periodically brings especially high tides to Sausalito, and just in time for Wintefest the next round is coming this Friday-Monday, December 9-11, 2016. The forecast rain will make the water rise even higher, especially near the mouths of creeks and storm drains. Our page with information and links for Sausalito flood zones and … [Read more...]

One year when I was in grad school I came home to Marin for Christmas. I soon realized that my parents were just not up for cooking a Christmas dinner. This is back in the days before the Internet, and it took a bunch of phone calls to find a place that was serving on Christmas evening, where my folks would like the food, and that was affordable for a grad student living off … [Read more...]

Golden Gate Ferry and Golden Gate Transit have issued a rteminder about their schedules for Thursday and Friday of Thanksgiving Week 2016.   THANKSGIVING: Thursday, November 24, 2016 Golden Gate Ferry's Sausalito Ferry Service will not be operating Golden Gate Transit buses will operate on their Holiday Schedule.   FRIDAY, November 25, 2016 Golden … [Read more...]