Kevin Hessel

Paradise Cay homeowners have installed their own private license-plate-reading cameras to monitor the entrance and exit of their neighborhood, saying they want to take proactive measures to combat crime after two burglaries over the summer.

After presentation on the countywide electric-vehicle strategy, Mayor Jack Ryan reopened public comment, which included those joining remotely by Zoom. That’s when the meeting was “Zoom-bombed,” a hijacking of teleconferencing sessions that has plagued schools and businesses that adopted the technology during the pandemic.

Tiburon last year recorded the lowest number of crimes in four decades of available data, when rates of the mid 1980s were quadruple what they are today, according to the latest statistics released by the FBI. And Belvedere was even safer.

Capt. Michelle Jean will become Tiburon’s first female police chief next month as Ryan Monaghan, who took over the department less than two years ago, is leaving effective Feb. 3 to join the San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office.

A Tiburon police sergeant died Dec. 12 of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound while on duty at the station, officials say.

The owners of downtown Tiburon boutique Yema have filed a $2 million federal lawsuit against Belvedere over its role in a 2020 incident between police and the Black merchants at their store, during which a city officer repeatedly placed his hand on his holstered gun.

Sam’s Anchor Cafe, the bayside eatery that’s been serving up meals since 1920, is now serving up pieces of the blockchain to offer lifetime special-privilege memberships — making VIPs from NFTs.

The Belvedere Police Department has ceased the illegal sharing of local license-plate-camera data with more than 200 out-of-state and federal agencies following an Ark investigation.

A widespread internet, phone and cable outage that struck the Tiburon Peninsula Nov. 8 left residents lamenting their loss of service, scratching their heads about what triggered the blackout and questioning the vulnerability of Marin’s communications systems.

Memo Gidley says growing up on a sailboat shaped him into the prize-winning racecar driver he is today.

When the Tiburon Police Department issued a press release after a recent robbery, details were limited. It included the color of the vehicle, though no make, model or type, such as a sedan or SUV. It included the general area of the encounter, but no specific location or context about the argument ahead of the chase. It also provided a brief suspect description — of only race and age.

Tiburon Peninsula business owners can once again expand operations after the state and county ended its most recent stay-at-home orders last week — and while many said they welcomed the chance at increased business, they also noted they planned to proceed cautiously as the pandemic drags on.

As coronavirus cases surge and new federal hospital-tracking data show infected patients are beginning to max out intensive-care units across the country, hospitals in Marin and the greater Bay Area are reportedly close behind.

Public health officers across six Bay Area counties, including Marin, united to issue a three-week regional shelter-in-place warning beginning March 17 to mitigate the potential spread of coronavirus disease 2019, or COVID-19.

Belvedere is moving forward with a multimillion-dollar plan to shore up its seawalls, with city officials indicating a design concept may be approved as early as next month — though it appears to have abandoned a pledge to hold a series of public forums dedicated solely to collecting feedback on the proposed project and how to fund it.

Residents of Tiburon, Belvedere and Strawberry joined the nearly 3 million people across 37 California counties whose power was deliberately shut down by Pacific Gas and Electric Co. late Oct. 26.

The rate of Reed Elementary School kindergartners who have received all of their required vaccinations is 95 percent this school year, above the minimum 92-94 percent range the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says is needed to achieve herd immunity but a slight dip from recent years.

There is no news on the front page of this week’s Ark. If you’re confused, taken aback or even annoyed at the stunt, consider that what’s on our cover — nothing at all — is what you’d get every week without local journalism.

The Reed Union School District is making strong progress toward a statewide goal of eliminating personal-belief and religious exemptions for student immunizations, with an exemption rate of 5 percent for incoming kindergartners for 2015-2016.

Reed Elementary School last week became the new center of a national conversation about parents who don’t vaccinate their children, just days before the seven-state Disneyland measles outbreak landed in Marin.

The Tiburon Peninsula descended into sadness this weekend as residents and members of the sailing community mourned the loss of one sailor and presumed the worst for four others who were swept from the Low Speed Chase in treacherous waters near the Farallon Islands.