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Bob Raines, a former superintendent of the Shoreline Unified School District, began serving a 210-day sentence in July for molesting a child at district offices. Mr. Raines, 72, was convicted of engaging in lewd conduct in 2023. He was arrested at his Petaluma home in 2021 and charged with a felony, but the Marin District Attorney’s Office later dropped the charge to a misdemeanor. The lower charge did not require proving that he had touched…

Consultants for the county are conducting a study of traffic flow and parking in Point Reyes Station, where heavy summertime visitation can mean circling blocks and stalled lines of cars. (Tess Elliott / Point Reyes Light)

Some Inverness residents have received a surprise in the mail in recent days: They must begin paying $110 a year for their post office box or install a mailbox at their house if they want to continue free delivery. For customers who have never been charged for their box, the news was most unwelcome. “F— the f—— post office!” said William Barrett, an Aberdeen Way resident who has had a free P.O. box for 25…

After extensive consultation with hikers, bikers, and equestrians—constituents that are sometimes at odds—Marin Water has proposed an update to its Mount Tam trail system that would sanction some trails for bicycles and e-bikes for the first time.

Through her Imagination Library, Dolly Parton extended her reach all the way from Tennessee to West Marin. More than 3 million kids across the country receive free books each month through her early childhood literacy program; in Marin, 1,300 kids participate in the program, and nearly 10,000 more are eligible to join it. The Marin County Free Library joined the program this summer, two months before Parton’s death in Nashville last week, at age 80.

On a Paris stage in 1673, Molière collapsed while performing in the last play he wrote, “The Imaginary Invalid,” a farce lampooning the medical establishment of 17th-century France. Hours later, he died. Geoff Hoyle, who will perform the same role in Inverness this weekend and next, hopes the same fate does not befall him. He sees many parallels between medical purveyors in 17th-century France and the wellness gurus of today, both peddling miracle cures more…

A wildlife camera captured this black bear in the Point Reyes National Seashore this summer. (Courtesy of Sarah Killingsworth/N.B.B.C.)

Two men who headed out for a midnight paddle to view bioluminescence in Tomales Bay on Saturday night did not return to shore, the second time this year that canoeists have drowned in the bay’s cold and choppy waters.

Twice in the last week, Jake Shoemaker has had the misfortune of driving by dump trucks hauling away tons of rotting squid from the Lake Bay, the 58-foot fishing vessel that ran aground at North Beach on Aug. 21. “It just bowled me over,” said Mr. Shoemaker, who delivers mail in Inverness, Point Reyes Station, and Marshall. “It stank so bad, I almost wrecked my car.” The first time was last week, while he…

With the final tranche of funding secured, the revitalization of the Coast Guard housing complex in Point Reyes Station is set to begin by the end of the year and be completed in 2028.