Update from Kathy Tyson, coach of the Sacred Heart Cagers, Olema.
Sunday Feb. 25th at Hall Middle School the Sacred Heart Cagers 8th grade girls played Mt. Carmel and won 41 to 19.
Sumanti Smith led the team in scoring with 13 points followed by Ana Gonzalez with 9 points and Emma Meckfessel had 6 points and Teresa Vega had 6 points also. Emma Meckfessel and Tahlia Romo led the team in defense.
The Sacred Heart Cagers are now 6 and 1 and are tied for first place with St. Isabella. The upcoming game at West Marin School will be Sunday March 4th. Sacred Heart vs St. Isabella at 1 pm.
Posted Sunday Feb. 25, 2007 --------
Bomb squad explosion in Bolinas
Tuesday morning Feb. 22 the Marin County bomb squad was called to a home in Bolinas. Family members found four pounds of "black" gunpowder while cleaning the home after the elderly couple died. Family legend had grandpa telling stories about how he had made nitroglycerin. When they found the four rusty cans of gunpowder and some bottles labeled nitric acid they called Sheriff's Deputies. The bomb squad responded.
The amber colored bottles held crystallized liquids. The rusty cans of gunpowder were possibly explosive.
With an abundance of caution, the bomb squad took the unstable items outside. Using bomb blankets they exploded the stuff safely.
Across Tomales Bay from Bolinas Ridge
Developing Story: THS Football undefeated
Posted Wed. Feb. 7, 2007 -------- Tomales High School Football (Boys Varsity) team season record becomes undefeated.
The 2006 Tomales High School Football team lost the Championship game to Mendocino High School. But Mendocino has forfeited the game and the season. For a time they were the North Central II League Champions. Now that championship is vacant, Tomales High School is the runner-up and Tomales’ record stands at 11 and zero.
Read the rest of the story in Tomales High School Sports
Tomales Town Hall needs a tree
Posted Feb. 6, 2007 -------- After 100 years of living with the neighboring buckeye tree, the Tomales Town Hall needs to buy it.
To the south of the historic building, a spreading buckeye tree nearly covers the small lot. That lot along with five others is being sold by the conservatorship of the now-deceased owner. For sale real estate signs grace the road side of the lots.
Recently added is a sign pleading to save the “buckeye.”
Ginny Magan, a volunteer with the Tomales Town Hall, explained the lots could be sold to a developer. New homes could be constructed on the lots. The lot next to the Town Hall is crucial to its future use and restoration.
The Town Hall was built directly on its lot line, by the Tomales Temperance Social Club in 1874. The first North Pacific Coast Railroad train entered Tomales the same year. The building was remodeled extensively in 1930 and became known as the Town Hall. Now in the 21st Century to improve handicap access and the downstairs kitchen, the Town Hall needs to utilize a portion of the “buckeye lot.”
The Board of Trustees has made an offer and it has been accepted by the Conservator. The Conservator’s asking price was $200,000. The Town Hall has raised money for the purchase from several sources. Pledges were made by community members, a portion of the Cerini bequest, a pledge by the Marin Board of Supervisors and an anticipated loan make up the funding sources.
The transaction must be approved by a Marin County Probate Judge. Until then the property is still on the market.
The buckye tree decorated for a fundraiser for Shambala wildlife refuge.
It's a big ship
It may have seemed to you that most folks were home watching the Stupor Bowl, but that doesn't account for the thousands who lined the hillsides of the Marin Headlands, Fort Baker and the Golden Gate Bridge to watch the entrance of the Queen Mary II into San Francisco Bay. A fireboat sprays welcome and several sailboats, motorboats and even kayaks can be seen greeting the leviathan as she passed under the Golden Gate Bridge. It was, in a word, gynormous.
Photo by Lynn Schnitzer shot from a hillside at Fort Baker, on the Marin side just south of Sausalito.
World Class bike racers return to West Marin
The peloton heads through Valley Ford, Feb. 2006.
Posted Wed. Jan. 31, 2007 --------- The Amgen
Tour of California professional cycling race returns to Marin and Sonoma
Counties this year. The route will follow the route used last year but will
also include the towns of Bodega and Bodega Bay and the monster hill climb
of Coleman Valley Road. The first stage of the race begins in Sausalito runs
almost 100 miles to Santa Rosa. The race climbs 1200 feet in the first stage.
The race has seven stages ending in Long Beach. Click
on map thumbnail for larger view. 
blank The tour includes 18 of the world’s
top professional cycling teams including BMC Racing Team (USA) based in
Santa Rosa. Other teams are:Colavita/Sutter Home Presented by Cooking Light
Team (USA), Crédit Agricole (FRA), Discovery Channel Pro Cycling
Team (USA), Gerolsteiner (GER), Health Net Presented by Maxxis (USA), Jelly
Belly Cycling Team (USA), Liquigas Pro Cycling Team (ITL), Navigators Insurance
Cycling Team (USA), Predictor-Lotto (BEL), Priority Health Cycling Team
Presented by Bissell (USA), Quick Step-Innergetic (BEL), Rabobank Cycling
Team (Netherlands), T-Mobile Team (GER), Team CSC (DEN), Team Slipstream
Powered by Chipotle (USA), Toyota-United Pro Cycling Team (USA), USA Cycling
National Development Team (USA).
The first stage will be held Monday, February 19. The route through Sonoma
County will go north on Highway 1 through Bodega and Bodega Bay, over Coleman
Valley Road to Occidental Road, then to Fulton Road, Third Street and into
downtown Santa Rosa where the peloton will make three circuits around the downtown
area.
Last year the racers arrived in Valley Ford about 1:30 p.m. They are expected in Bodega Bay just before 2 p.m. For the race the California Highway Patrol had a rolling road closure about 30 minutes before the riders came through. The pack of cyclists or peloton was about three minutes behind the three lead riders. The peloton passed in less than 30 seconds.
Daily coverage in this country will be televised on the Versus TV network (formerly OLN). The tour is hailed as one of the best international cycling events with a world-class course and a level of competition unprecedented on U.S. soil.
Tomales Post Office welcomes back one of its own
Posted Monday, Feb. 5, 2007 --------- Julie Martinoni has returned to her Postmaster duties at Tomales Post Office, after a stint at the North Bay Mail Facility in Petaluma. "It was a year and a half," replied Martinoni, to inquiries about the length of her absence. Tomales postal customers were ably served during Martinoni's hiatus by Jenny Kelley, Camp Meeker's Postmaster.
Many Tomales customers praised Kelley's astute coverage of
their PO but were
delighted to see Julie after so long an absence. The photo below shows Martinoni
(left)
catching up on Tomales postal business with Kelley on the latter's last day
at work in
Tomales. Photos and story by Lynn Schnitzer
Tomales
Postmaster Julie Martinoni returns to Tomales Post Office. Photo by Lynn Schnitzer
Martinoni at the 150 year anniversary of the Tomales Post Office.
