Woodacre News

These days it can feel like the age of anxiety is winning over the pursuit of happiness.

For seven days and six nights at the end of November, a group of Jews will sit mostly in silence, meditating in a quiet wooded neighborhood in San Rafael.

Woodacre resident Marylu Giddings, who lives adjacent to San Geronimo Creek, stands behind yellow tape that shows where development restrictions would come up to her house.

Marin County Fire Department Chief Ken Massucco was named fire chief of the year by the California Fire Chiefs Association.

The state's fiscal crisis, maintenance of school programs and strengthening of parental involvement are among the issues confronting four candidates competing for three seats on the Lagunitas school board on the Nov.

Woodacre resident Andrew Giacomini, a successful San Francisco lawyer and the son of a former Marin County supervisor, is playing a leading role in an effort to call a California constitutional convention that would reinvent state government.

The Marin Interfaith Council will have an interfaith retreat from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday at the Spirit Rock Meditation Center in Woodacre.

ON THE 13th of August, I celebrated 31 years of not drinking. The gifts of being alcohol-free are truly manifest.

White Hill and the Summit fire roads in the Gary Giacomini Open Space Preserve will be closed to all vehicles from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. beginning Monday through Oct.

Marin County officials will discuss a draft plan to improve conditions for coho salmon and steelhead trout in the San Geronimo Valley watershed at a 6:30 p.m. public forum Monday at the Woodacre Improvement Club at 3 Garden Way in Woodacre.

Marin County officials will discuss a draft plan to improve conditions for coho salmon and steelhead trout in the San Geronimo Valley watershed at a 6:30 p.m. public forum Monday at the Woodacre Improvement Club at 3 Garden Way in Woodacre.

Marin County officials will discuss a draft plan to improve conditions for coho salmon and steelhead trout in the San Geronimo Valley watershed at a 6:30 p.m. public forum Aug.

Bolinas authors Diana Alstad and Joel Kramer take on some of spirituality s most sacred cows in their new book The Passionate Mind Revisited.

Four juveniles were seriously injured Wednesday night when a small sedan carrying five people rolled over near Samuel P. Taylor State Park in West Marin, a Marin County fire spokesman said.

A high pressure system and lack of sea breeze that sent a heat wave throughout the region will taper off by this weekend, according to the National Weather Service.

David Carlos uses rubber bands to place honey comb into racks of a hive box as he removes a colony of bees.

An entrepreneur and his wife are the targets of two lawsuits currently pending that allege the couple misled investors, cheating them out of more than $28 million.

Call 924-4832. SUNDAY, JUNE 21 - Spirit Rock Meditation Center at 5000 Sir Francis Drake Blvd.

A 14-year-old girl from Woodacre was airlifted to an Oakland hospital Sunday afternoon after a collision between two off-road motorcycles in Novato.

I trust the many religious bigots who supported Proposition 8 relish their moment of superiority today.