Jump to navigation Braden Cartwright Brian Ojalvo and Dylan Squires will open their new record shop in the Western building this weekend.
By 05/05/2021
The first-ever record store in West Marin is opening on Saturday in Point Reyes Station. Loose Joints Records, next door to the Western, is a venture by musician Dylan Squires and record collector Brian Ojalvo. Their goal is to create a customer-centric outlet for collectors and newbies alike. Their inventory consists of about 1,500 records across the spectrum of price points, genres and time periods, and they plan to keep it fresh. “We really want to engage the customer, find out what they want, what they like, what we think they might like, and make recommendations,” Mr. Ojalvo said. The partners each bring something different to the table. Mr. Ojalvo, 52, owns a boutique wine business in Santa Rosa and has about 8,000 records at his home in Bolinas. He knows record store owners up and down the
After last year s wildfires, spring revival brings record visits to Bay Area parks
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Charred trees from the 2020 Woodward fire along Limantour Road in Point Reyes National Seashore. Crews are clearing “hazard trees,” which could fall across trails.Stephen Lam / The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
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Last year the Woodward Fire burned 4,929 acres of Point Reyes National Seashore, bordered roughly by Limantour Road and Sky Trail stretching south past the Bear Valley Trail and Wildcat Camp. The footprint of the fire remains closed to all access.Stephen Lam / The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
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Charred trees from the 2020 Woodward fire along Limantour Road in Point Reyes National Seashore. All but one campground, Sky Camp, have reopened in the park and are getting booked 100% by reservation.Stephen Lam / The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
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By 02/03/2021
Everyone can agree with the frightening opening to the Inverness Foundation’s solicitation for the adoption of another Inverness Public Utility District tax: “We don’t want Inverness to be like Paradise…ravaged by…fire.”
Alarmed Inverness residents are then presented with a property tax proposition authored by Seahaven residents rather than our utility district. This tax, they claim, will provide funds to alleviate the wildfire threat and Inverness’s water problems essentially leaks and inadequate storage capacity. Yet combining wildfire danger with IPUD’s water issues creates a scattershot approach to two separate and complex situations. And a cursory analysis of the proposal’s enormous ambitions reveals that its expenditures will clearly exceed its generated income.
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By 01/20/2021
The smoke from the Woodward Fire was still lingering in the air when a group of Inverness residents decided that the village’s immediate needs related to wildfire prevention and water storage would require a new funding source. In a survey launched this month, residents are weighing in on whether they would support a new parcel tax that the Inverness Association hopes to sponsor.
“The biggest driver of this is climate change,” said Jerry Meral, who sits on the association’s board and had the idea for the tax. “Look, we have had almost no rain halfway through January, and that’s true throughout the whole Pacific Southwest, it’s not just Inverness. And so I think we need to be ready to be ready with our water supply and to fight the fires we all know are getting more and more frequent. Now whether the Inverness voters share that view, I guess we will find out.”
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By 01/06/2021
Choke points would abound in an emergency evacuation of West Marin. In Inverness, the problem is Sir Francis Drake Boulevard. In Bolinas, it’s Mesa and Olema-Bolinas Roads. And for the entire coast, any of the over-the-hill routes through the San Geronimo Valley, past Nicasio or around Mount Tamalpais would become congested if thousands of people were trying to leave at once.
Despite this threat to public safety, nobody in Marin is taking responsibility to plan for evacuation, according to a Marin County Civil Grand Jury report issued last month. The 19-member watchdog group calls on the Transportation Authority of Marin to step up and include evacuation as one of its criteria when planning or funding projects. The grand jury also urges public works departments of cities, towns and the county to prioritize evacuation, and argues that these governing bodies should address evacuation infrastructure needs as they update their general pl