Before the shoreline was lined with shipyards during World War II, creeks flowed through Sausalito in the North Bay—rare permanent streams in a dry state full of ephemeral ones. The trees that grew up around these creeks lent the city their name: “little willow grove,” or, in Spanish, Sausalito. But the name has long been […]
By KERI BRENNER | kbrenner@marinij.com | Marin Independent Journal Marin County, the Sausalito Marin City School District and the Richardson’s Bay Regional Agency have been selected for nearly $10 million in water quality and wetlands projects. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced the grants Wednesday at an event in Oakland. The Marin projects are among two dozen in the
By KERI BRENNER | kbrenner@marinij.com | Marin Independent Journal On Friday, a day after trustees awarded an $18,000 pre-construction contract for the school to BHM Construction Inc. of Napa, a Sausalito civic leader said he and his team and the district had in recent days created a potential “plan B” for bringing the property’s underground Willow Creek above ground.
By KERI BRENNER | kbrenner@marinij.com | Marin Independent Journal The Sausalito City Council and the Sausalito Marin City School District will hold a joint session next month to review plans for developing a 13-acre parcel owned by the district. City Council members reacted in favor of the idea after an invitation at their March 7 meeting from Itoco
In the span of nine days in 2023, a buried perennial creek in Sausalito went from being twice forgotten to having a fighting chance to be reborn into the community. Of the six creeks in the City that have been buried, Willow Creek is the one creek that could be restored from its headwaters to
By KERI BRENNER | kbrenner@marinij.com | Marin Independent Journal Sausalito officials are preparing a resolution calling for the school district to scrap plans to relocate an underground creek. The City Council is expected to approve the resolution when it meets on Tuesday. The Sausalito Marin City School District wants to move Willow Creek as part of its project to
By KERI BRENNER | kbrenner@marinij.com | Marin Independent Journal Leaders of two Marin environmental nonprofit groups are urging the Sausalito Marin City School District to take a slower pace and a more considered approach to a design for a new $32 million elementary school in Sausalito. “We’re rooting for the district — we want this to be successful,” said
By KERI BRENNER | kbrenner@marinij.com | Marin Independent Journal Environmental groups and city leaders are questioning Sausalito Marin City School District’s effort to relocate an underground creek as part of a plan to build a new elementary school. The Sierra Club Marin Group, along with Friends of Willow Creek, the Marin Conservation League and the Sausalito City Council, are
