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County employees urged to take days off without pay, layoffs likely this summer

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 MST

Marin Independent Journal Struggling to cut costs and avoid layoffs, the county of Marin is encouraging employees to take up to 12 days off without pay during the current fiscal year.

Judith Allen of Kentfield, civic volunteer and bank director, dies

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 MST

Judith O'Connell Allen, whose wide-ranging civic career included everything from the Kentfield school board to the Bank of Marin board, died Tuesday.

Neurologist: Long layoff, age increase boxer Nave's risk of brain injury

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 MST

Paul Nave's official slogan as a 49-year-old professional boxer is "It ain't over till it's over." According to some, it should have never been allowed to start.

Paul Liberatore: Ali Akbar Khan's son carries on the sarod master's music and teachings

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 MST

Twenty-seven-year-old Alam Khan admits that he was emotionally adrift for a time while he grieved for his father, the great North Indian classical musician Ali Akbar Khan, who died in June.

Marin home sales show some strength

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 MST

Marin real estate activity matched a Bay Area trend last month of more sales and higher prices. A total of 202 single-family homes were sold in Marin in October at a median price of $750,000; both figures represented upticks from the previous month, MDA DataQuick reported Thursday.

NCS football: Backup quarterback leads Tam past El Cerrito

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 MST

EL CERRITO - It was a night of firsts for Tam High's Graeme Black. It was his first varsity game under the lights.

Photographer Fox captures movement in Bolinas exhibition

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:00:00 MST

Charles Fox decided to call his first photo exhibit "Movement." "I had this idea of movement as a definition of life," he explained one recent morning in his Bolinas home. "So I just tried to capture movement with my camera." "Movement" opens Nov. 21 at the Commonweal Gallery in Bolinas and runs through Jan. 8.

Tiburon man, 21, dies after fall at college bar in Boston

Thu, 05 Apr 2007 00:00:00 MDT

A 21-year-old Redwood High School graduate died this week after falling down a set of stairs at a tavern near his college in Boston.

Redwood High paper wins national award

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 MST

The Redwood Bark, the student newspaper of Redwood High School, received the National Scholastic Press Association's Pacemaker Award during the association's fall convention in Washington, D.