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  Lib at Large: Marin City teen, a human rights honoree, drawn to police career

  At a time when the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter has gone viral in social media and students on campuses across the country are protesting the recent killings of young black men by police officers, 17-year-old Davon Smith, a Tamalpais High School senior active in the Black Student Union, has his own ideas about reforming law enforcement. He wants to be a cop. Teens don’t always look at the police with that level of trust, especially in minority neighborhoods like Marin City, where...

  Paul Liberatore
  |3 weeks, 6 days ago

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  Dune restoration plan for Point Reyes National Seashore calls for herbicide use

  The Point Reyes National Seashore has put forth a plan to attack environmentally harmful and invasive European beach grass by spraying it with herbicides and in some cases digging it up. The sinewy brownish-green beach grass was introduced to the coastal dunes at Point Reyes in the 1940s to control erosion and it has taken over much of the dunes along the Great Beach and Limantour Beach. “That plan worked very well,” said John Dell’Osso, chief of...

  Mark Prado
  |4 weeks ago

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  SMART shuts down road as rail work around Civic Center goes in

  Tracks are going in and a station is forming just north of the Marin Civic Center in San Rafael as work continues on commuter rail service set to begin at the end of next year. Earlier this week, part of Civic Center Drive was closed for two days in preparation for the train, expected to bring in hundreds of workers to Marin’s government center when service begins in late 2016. It’s a little hard to imagine now, given the in-progress look of the locale, but...

  Mark Prado
  |on 01/14/2015

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  Marin freeway gridlock spots drop out of top 10

  Marin has dropped out of the top 10 worst commutes in the Bay Area — but that hardly means driving during rush hours is peachy. For years the southbound morning commute on Highway 101 in Marin ranked among the worst, according to a report compiled by the Metropolitan Transportation Commission. The last time the report came out in 2009 — the MTC had trouble getting figures in recent years because of a change in data collection methods — the Marin segment ranked...

  Mark Prado
  |on 01/14/2015

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  Golden Gate Bridge median barrier work going smoothly

  SAN FRANCISCO>> Work to place a $30.3 million movable median barrier on the Golden Gate Bridge was going smoothly as of Saturday evening as crews hammered together the structure on the eerily empty span. The bridge closed to general traffic at midnight as work began and by 5:50 p.m., the barrier was completed. “The work is right on schedule,” said Priya Clemens, bridge spokeswoman, as foghorns bellowed in the Golden Gate. Clemens said a series of other...

  Mark Prado
  Megan Hansen
  |on 01/10/2015

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  Two San Rafael roads to close this week for SMART track work

  As Marin dries out, Sonoma-Marin Area Rail Transit work is picking up again as the agency works toward starting commuter train service next year. Two work sites in San Rafael will require the closure of streets that are crossed by rails. SMART contractor Shimmick Construction will be rebuilding the railroad crossing at Fifth Avenue beginning at 7 a.m. Tuesday, with work ending at 9 p.m. Thursday. Fifth Avenue at the railroad crossing will be closed to all auto traffic 24...

  Mark Prado
  |on 01/10/2015

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  Marin City man who was shot by deputy sues county for $10M

  A Marin City man who was shot by a sheriff’s deputy in 2013 is suing the county for $10 million — more than 15 percent of the sheriff’s annual budget. Chaka Ali Grayson, 45, filed the lawsuit in U.S. District Court in San Francisco. The lawsuit says Grayson suffered nerve damage and permanent injuries that have ruined his ability to earn a living as a laborer. The lawsuit names the deputy, Evan Kubota, as a defendant along with the county of Marin and...

  Gary Klien
  |on 01/08/2015

• Breaking News

  Weekend Golden Gate Bridge closure will make it a challenge to get into San Francisco

  Marin residents will have to find another way to get into San Francisco this weekend as the Golden Gate Bridge undergoes an historic two-day closure so a movable median barrier can be placed on the span. The California Highway Patrol will begin setting up the closures between 9:30 and 10 p.m. Friday with the goal of closing all roads at 11:30 p.m. The bridge will be re-opened at 4 a.m. Monday, possibly earlier. Marin residents driving south on Highway 101 will encounter the...

  Mark Prado
  |on 01/08/2015

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  Father of Marin City shooting suspect named as alleged accessory

  Sheriff’s investigators have arrested a second suspect in a Marin City shooting last month — the father of the first suspect. Terrell Bland Sr., 50, of Novato was booked on suspicion of destroying evidence, being an accessory to a crime and being a felon in possession of a handgun, ammunition and drugs, the sheriff’s department said. Bland Sr. was arrested on Monday, five days after the alleged shooter, his son Tyrrell, was arrested. The incident...

  Gary Klien
  |on 01/07/2015

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  New website shows how Marin could have developed

  A freeway in Tiburon connected to a bridge to Angel Island and then San Francisco seems unfathomable, but was one of a number of development plans for Marin that failed to take hold. A graduate from the Environmental Forum of Marin has just launched a website — www.whatmighthavebeen.squarespace.com — highlighting those plans and a number of others around the Bay Area that would have given the region a much different look today if they had come to...

  Mark Prado
  |on 01/03/2015