Novato News

The average household across all Marin cities owes about $5,700 to pay for retiree health care promised to public employees but left unfunded by elected officials, a new study indicates.

The Marin County Department of Health and Human Services is still monitoring concerns about acute hepatitis A proliferation tied to consumption of frozen berries from the Costco store in Novato, but no local cases have been reported.

Vincent Zappacosta, left, and Douglass Christensen look at their blog at home in San Rafael, Calif.

San Francisco artist Chris Duke creates a painting on glass of the Treasure Island Flea at one of the monthly weekend events.

Northbound traffic is diverted along the shoulder as a car is cleared from the scene of a roll-over accident on Highway 101 near the Bel Marin Keys Boulevard off ramp in Novato, Calif.

Firefighters with the Novato Fire Department quickly doused a fire Saturday afternoon at Aramark Uniform Services at 396 Bel Marin Keys Blvd. in Novato.

Shabbat services are at 6:15 and 8 p.m. June 21 at Congregation Rodef Sholom in San Rafael.

When a diner mentions the theater Tuesday at the Entrada Red Boy Pizza, 15 percent of the check will be donated to support the theater.

A 33-year-old motorist suffered minor injuries and triggered a 1.5-mile commute backup on southbound Highway 101 early Friday following a collision north of Atherton Avenue in Novato.

Frobeck, a popular Sonoma County band that has been described as the next generation Sons of Champlin, overcomes the suicide of its drummer to return to the stage, playing at Rancho Nicasio June 22. SPENCER BURROWS AND Kris Dilbeck, the 30-something co-founders of the popular North Bay band Frobeck, were born a couple of decades too late.

Deborah Hamon holds hands full of pom-poms on Monday, May 20, 2013, in Novato, Calif.

The School District has hired a new principal and two assistant principals to help lead three Santa Monica schools.

There were a number of items on Tuesday's Fillmore City Council Meeting's agenda requiring the meeting to continue late into the evening.

The Novato Rotary Club has honored 20 Novato teachers for outstanding work. Each of the teachers was recommended by his or her school principal.

San Rafael's Equator Coffees & Teas is opening its first retail shop and the lucky locale is in the Proof Lab Surf Shop in Mill Valley.

Police in Novato arrested a 24-year-old dance instructor and ballroom competitor from Modesto on suspicion of engaging in a sexual activity with a teenage girl at a dance event, a newspaper reported.

A state budget plan for 2013-14 announced by Gov. Jerry Brown and California lawmakers Tuesday will boost funding to schools statewide by $2.1 billion, though most Marin schools will receive the same amount of state money as last year.

Elizabeth Foster, a mother of two with a third on the way, literally jumped for joy and hugged her refurbished 1977 Honda Civic when it was unveiled Tuesday at Novato Toyota.

Left to right: Roberta Wain-Becker and Violet and Griff Marshall at the Golden Gate Opera fundraiser on June 1 in Tiburon.

Chas Schwartz of San Rafael celebrates his graduation from junior college in 2013 with his dad Fred.