Inverness News

Marin will again serve up Fourth of July activities throughout the county ranging from traditional pancake breakfasts in Novato, Corte Madera and Marinwood to Inverness foot races, outdoor music in Nicasio and bayside fireworks in Sausalito.

Gerardo Larios appears with his public defender, Bonnie Marmor, during his sentencing Wednesday for the death of Ricky Teague, 16, of Point Reyes Station.

Jeremiah McCleery was only 4 when his father drove him from the family's home in Rialto to Twentynine Palms, Calif., to watch the triumphant -- and emotional -- return of U.S. soldiers from the 1991 Persian Gulf War.

Joseph Banuelos, a former West County drug enforcement officer talks at the PTSD retreat house in Inverness, Calif.

Not since his son was killed in combat in Iraq has Paul Olson felt so emotionally jarred.

On this Memorial Day, we, as Americans,A pause to remember our fallen Servicemembers.A 19 US Servicemembers were killed in action throughout May 2009.

ON THIS MEMORIAL DAY, a new name is added to the list of Marin residents who lost their lives in service to our country.

The Marin County deputy zoning administrator will consider a request by Thomas Coates to add a 660-square-foot detached bedroom wing and 356-square-foot detached garage to a 1,481-square-foot home at 250 Seadrift Road in Stinson Beach.

The Inverness Public Utility District is proposing to raise water rates another 9 percent this year after a 20 percent hike last year, joining other county agencies that are lining up to charge more for water.

The Inverness Garden Club has awarded $83,500 in scholarships for the 2009-10 academic year to 27 students from coastal West Marin, representing six high schools and seven communities.

To ready himself for his son's funeral, Bob Velloza on Sunday visited the cemetery where the body of 22-year-old Jake Velloza, a casualty of the war in Iraq, will be laid to rest Saturday in West Marin.

Two soldiers from Northern California have been killed in Iraq. The Department of Defense says Army Spc.

Jake Robert Velloza, a lifelong Inverness resident and Tomales High graduate, was one of two U.S. Army soldiers killed Saturday when a lone gunman opened fire on a group of Americans in Mosul, Iraq, according to Velloza's grandfather.

This view shows the slot handle in the top, the stretcher and the arched ends. The truth is I never messed with dovetails before, and was quite pleased with the effect they have on the look of this little piece.

A 1.5-acre parcel on Tomales Bay in Inverness has been donated to the county parks department.

The Inverness Yacht Club will host a community conversation on the relationship between the Point Reyes National Seashore and the West Marin community at 7 p.m. Friday at 12850 Sir Francis Drake Blvd.

World-renowned ActionScript guru and educator Colin Moock takes viewers to seaside Inverness, CA for a one-of-a-kind learning experience presented in a friendly, down-to-earth, two-part video series.

A memorial will be held March 29 for local peace activist Guy Meyer, a Unitarian minister who spread a message of world peace from New England pulpits to Point Reyes radio waves.

Point Reyes Station restaurant Osteria Stellina is presenting "Faces of the Farm," an exhibit of black-and-white portraits from the Drakes Bay Oyster Farm at 11285 Highway 1. Inverness photographer Evvy Eisen ...

The case of a West Marin homicide suspect spun off in a new direction Wednesday over allegations that two supporters confiscated and wiped down key evidence from the crime scene - the door of a pickup truck - ...