22.08202508/25/2025

Sausalito Marin City trustees OK creek design plan

By In Marin IJ, News & Updates
By  | kbrenner@marinij.com | Marin Independent Journal
Sausalito Marin City School District trustees have signed off on an ambitious design plan to unearth an underground creek that runs through campus.
Trustees voted unanimously on Thursday in favor of the plan for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Academy. The design includes an 120-seat outdoor amphitheater overlooking the bay, a 40-seat classroom space, and walking paths and small bridges along up to 900 feet of Willow Creek.
“I like this

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01.08202508/12/2025

Sausalito school officials review designs for creek restoration

By In Marin IJ, News & Updates

By Keri Brenner | kbrenner@marinij.com | Marin Independent Journal

School officials have gotten their first peek at potential designs for an outdoor education landscape at Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Academy in Sausalito.
Project consultants offered a presentation during the Sausalito Marin City School District board meeting on Thursday. A key component of the project is bringing Willow Creek up from underground.
“I’m so excited about this creek and the amphitheater plans,” Amy Hale, the school’s new principal, said at

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01.12202408/12/2025

Planners hired for Sausalito school creek project

By In Marin IJ, News & Updates

By Keri Brenner | kbrenner@marinij.com | Marin Independent Journal

The Sausalito Marin City School District is moving ahead on a much-debated plan to move subterranean Willow Creek above ground.
The district’s trustees voted unanimously this month to award a nearly $800,000 architectural design contract for the project to Prunuske Chatham Inc.
“The scope of the work is the full design package,” said Jason Cave, construction project manager for the district. “This design work is highly specialized, and there’s only a

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06.03202403/06/2024

From the Darkness Into the Light

By In Community, Education, News & Updates, Partners & Supporters, Restoration

Friends of Willow Creek, in Sausalito, is celebrating 13 years of stewardship and advocacy for “creek daylighting”, which is the conversion of buried pipes that convey former streams to above-ground, vegetated channels.  Daylighting creeks is a complex, expensive and uncommon undertaking, as the Friends have learned, and requires patient planning, outreach, and partnership-building over a sustained period of time.  One of the reasons creeks were buried in Sausalito and mostly forgotten was to make room for buildings, streets and yards, …

28.09202310/04/2023

Unburying the Creek Beneath It, A School Becomes a Steward

By In Community, Education, Partners & Supporters

Unburying the Creek Beneath It, A School Becomes a Steward 

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 ironic, as the creeks were forced into underground culverts in the name of progress. “The …

29.06202308/12/2025

Marin water projects allocated $9.8M from EPA

By In Marin IJ, News & Updates, Uncategorized

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 Bay Area to receive $52 million in grants.
“Restored wetlands in the San Francisco Bay are our first line of defense

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22.04202308/12/2025

Sausalito school construction contract, creek plan advance

By In Marin IJ, News & Updates

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.

Steve Moore, head of Friends of Willow Creek, said the new plan would “daylight” the creek around the perimeter of the

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17.03202308/12/2025

Sausalito council, school board plan session on development

By In Marin IJ, News & Updates

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 Garcia, the district superintendent, and Bonnie Hough, the president of its board.
A date has not yet been set, but is expected

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11.03202303/13/2023
Week of the Creek

Week of the Creek

By In News & Updates, Partners & Supporters

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 the Bay.  Voters passed Measure P in 2020, authorizing a general obligation bond of $41 Million for school reconstruction by the Sausalito Marin City School …

05.03202308/12/2025

Sausalito resolution opposes school district creek project

By In Marin IJ, News & Updates

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 build a new elementary school at its campus on Nevada Street.
The city wants the district to revise its school construction

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