San Geronimo News

Where are you going on holiday this year? To my house in the Tarn region of southern France.

Dozens of West Marin residents gathered Thursday afternoon to bid adieu to the San Geronimo Valley Library, saying they were sad and disappointed to lose the 80-year-old operation to budget cuts.

Cut due to budget shortfalls, the San Geronimo Valley branch of the Marin County Free Library will close its doors for the last time at 5 p.m. Thursday.

"[Kate Wolf was little known beyond the California folk-music circuit, but in that community she was royalty," roots-rocker Dave Alvin wrote in the liner notes to his 2006 album , which included a gorgeous cover of Wolf's "Here in California." "Her gentle, disarming music was as deceptive as this song.

The chambers of commerce in San Anselmo and Corte Madera are combining forces to put on a benefit golf tournament at San Geronimo Golf Course on Sept.

Larry Rippee , visual arts coordinator at the San Geronimo Valley Community Center, makes notes while looking through a collection of photographs that will be displayed during the 40th anniversary celebration of the facility.

The San Geronimo Valley Community Center will have its annual summer day camp in five one-week sessions from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. June 29 through July 31.

$40. Call 510-428-0937 or go to www.breema.com . SUNDAY, MAY 31 - IDESST's Holy Ghost Festa and parade will start at 9:45 a.m. at IDESST Portuguese Hall at 511 Caledonia St.

A San Geronimo resident and former football player at Santa Rosa Junior College, was shot in the face as he left a party in Santa Rosa over the weekend.

Two San Geronimo Valley residents will be honored with the Edie Robinson Community Service Award, named in honor of the late community activist to recognize achievement, devotion and community building.

Cornell Barnett will share his story about growing up in the South Africa at the Redwoods Presbyterian Church Women's Breakfast at 110 Magnolia Ave.

Oysters are always in season, thanks to aquaculture, and big changes are coming to that area of food production in Marin.

San Geronimo Valley residents will not see a 10-million-gallon water tank installed at Blueberry Ridge near Woodacre after the Marin Municipal Water District Board of Directors voted to seek another location.

Had you cut Ed Biaggini Jr., it's possible he would have bled purebred Angus, such was his love of the breed - and cattle-raising in general.

Senior lunches are offered at noon Thursdays at the San Geronimo Valley Community Center at 6350 Sir Francis Drake Blvd.

As to the latest economic indicator, Saul Isler , who plays golf at the San Geronimo Golf Club in West Marin, says that recent searches for balls shot into the woods or at the edges of ponds have turned up different kinds of lost balls than previously found.

The number of personal belief exemptions with vaccines in Marin County increased by 6.3 percent from 1999 to 2008, while the state's rate of exemption grew by only 1.9 percent during the same period.

Cecelia's Catholic Church starts at 6:30 a.m. At 11 a.m., worship with choir and music is at San Geronimo Presbyterian Church at 6001 Sir Francis Drake Blvd.

The costs of having eleven branches in the Marin County Library System has forced a decision to close down the San Geronimo Valley Library , the most expensive to maintain.

Despite protests from a handful of residents, county officials agreed Tuesday to shut down the 80-year-old San Geronimo Valley Library operation, saying it will close by July as its services are merged with the Fairfax Library.