Tiburon resident Mark Hanf and his former chief operating officer pleaded guilty in the Pacific Private Money fraud and agreed to at least $71.8 million in restitution.

Belvedere issued the Mallard Pointe bulkhead permit Oct. 1, the last city approval before demolition, as the lagoon association blocks a silt curtain on one stretch.

Tiburon Fire and other agencies will train at the vacant Mallard Pointe apartments in Belvedere Oct. 2-12 before demolition. No live fire will be used.

Alameda County Fire division chief Heather Marques will take command of the Southern Marin Fire Protection District, which serves Strawberry and northern Tiburon, on Oct. 13.

Faris Jafar and Chuck Hornbrook are the only two of Tiburon’s five Town Council candidates to report donations in campaign-finance disclosures due Sept. 24.

Belvedere’s parks committee voted Sept. 17 to bend its residency guideline and put up a plaque honoring Larry Hadley, whose company built the Community Park gazebo.

A single-story waterfront home at 36 Old Landing Road in Tiburon, steps from a private beach on the bay, is on the market for $17.5 million.

Measure P, a 15-year countywide parcel tax on the Nov. 3 ballot, would subsidize childcare in Marin and raise pay for providers, about $100 a year for a 2,000-square-foot house.

Measure CC, a 30-year parcel tax on the Nov. 3 ballot, would pay for a larger ER and expanded ICU at MarinHealth Medical Center, Marin’s only trauma center.

The Tiburon Wine Festival runs 1-4 p.m. Oct. 3 at Point Tiburon Plaza, and the Ben Stolorow Trio plays 4 p.m. Oct. 4 at Old St. Hilary’s Landmark in Tiburon.

Voters will decide Nov. 3 on Measure O, a $115 million bond to repair and upgrade the Reed Union School District’s three schools.

The Ark is hosting a forum with the Tiburon Town Council candidates, moderated by the League of Women Voters of Marin. Watch live on Instagram: @thearknewspaper

Tiburon’s Eddie Madril, an assistant professor at San Francisco State and founder of Sewam American Indian Dance, is co-organizing the town’s Native American celebration Oct. 11.

Doug Twillman, appointed to the Strawberry Recreation District board last year, faces challenger Aliza Hawkins Nov. 3 for the district’s open two-year seat.

The Strawberry Recreation District two-year candidates at a glance

About 30 short films screen at the third annual Belvedere Home Made Film Festival, which begins at 6 p.m. Oct. 9 at Belvedere Community Park.

Academy Award-nominated actor Bruce Dern will be the guest of honor Nov. 5 at the first fundraising gala for a new nonprofit supporting Tiburon movie theater Cinelounge.

Darwin Blanch, 18, of Florida beat No. 4 seed Michael Mmoh 3-6, 6-4, 6-2 Sept. 20 to win the Tiburon Challenger, the youngest champion in the tournament’s history.

Ken Davis passed away peacefully on September 9, 2026.

Madeleine “Lani” Stephens Valentine died September 9, 2026.

Tiburon travel writer Marybeth Bond-Sheppard’s fourth trip to Alaska: 13 days from Seattle on Oceania’s Riviera, a small ship that sailed deep into the bay at Hubbard Glacier.

The Ark is hosting a Tiburon Town Council candidates forum, moderated by the League of Women Voters of Marin County, from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Sept. 29 in the Town Hall council chambers.

Tiburon parks commissioners asked designers Sept. 15 to trim the cost of a planned park at the former sanitation ponds near McKegney Green, now projected at $3.7 million.

Marin County will test AlertMarin, its emergency notification system, at 10 a.m. Sept. 26, sending a test alert to everyone registered for the service.

Tiburon Town Council awarded a $349,000 contract Sept. 16 to reline corroded storm drains at nine spots. It won’t fix the flooding at Beach Road and Tiburon Boulevard.

Tiburon is scaling back its Cypress Hollow Park redesign to the existing play areas and dropping the sidewalk neighbors opposed, cutting a $2.5 million plan at least in half.

Honey wine, crab salad and a cover band: The 43rd Tiburon Wine Festival pours from about 60 wineries 1-4 p.m. Oct. 3 at Point Tiburon Plaza.

Belvedere’s storybook “Hansel and Gretel House” at 246 Beach Road, stripped of its historic designation at the owner’s request, is in contract two weeks after listing at $3.65M.

Belvedere City Council voted 3-2 Sept. 14 to advance Marin’s first commercial drone delivery ordinance, barring delivery hubs from homes and limiting where drones can land.

Four candidates are running for three four-year seats on the Strawberry Recreation District board Nov. 3, a rare contested race for a district that has struggled to fill seats.

The Strawberry Recreation District four-year candidates at a glance

Paulino Monterroso started as a dishwasher in a Tiburon cafe in 1992. Now his Salt & Pepper Restaurant on Main Street is the Tiburon chamber’s 2026 Business of the Year.

State Parks, Cal Fire and Marin County Fire plan to resume the Angel Island prescribed burn as early as Sept. 23, putting smoke back over the Tiburon Peninsula.

A day after The Ark asked Tiburon who approved access to its license-plate cameras, the town revised the policy, dropping the written-request rule and its monthly audit method.

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Two men were arrested on suspicion of stealing credit and debit cards from vehicles at Blackie's Pasture in Tiburon and using them at Bay Area stores, Tiburon police said.

A waterfront Belvedere villa known as Casa dei Sogni has sold for $16.92 million in a pre-auction deal, ending a yearslong effort to find a buyer.

Mill Valley's Shayala Diamond stopped at Tiburon's Shoreline Park on a 90-degree day. She spent 20 years designing jewelry, including a key chain that took off.

The Belvedere-Tiburon Library's new exhibit, "Mark Making: Dots, Lines, Textures," runs Sept. 17 to Nov. 11 with work by 65 Bay Area artists chosen by a jury.

Paradise Cay voters decide Nov. 3 on Measure Z, a parcel tax that pays to dredge the community's canals and its two entry channels to San Francisco Bay.

Marin County supervisors want a closer look at whether the Strawberry Design Review Board should be restructured or folded into another body. It is one of six such recommendations in a countywide review of the volunteer boards that advise the county. The board reviews the design of homes and development projects in Strawberry, and it has gone nearly quiet. Since Jan. 6, 2025, the county’s hearing calendar for the board lists a single meeting, on Aug. 17 for a home project in unincorporated Alto.

Tenants at Mallard Pointe in Belvedere had to be out by Sept. 14, but demolition of the 22 apartments is still waiting on a bulkhead permit under city review since February 2025.

The Richardson Bay Regional Agency has accepted nearly $5 million in grants to pull sunken debris off the bay floor and replant eelgrass beds that anchors tore up.

Tiburon resident Annie Roney is a lead producer of "Particle Fever," a musical about the CERN scientists who found the Higgs boson. It premieres Feb. 16 in La Jolla.

The Strawberry Recreation District's new playground and restroom are coming in at just over $3 million, more than $500,000 above the maximum the board set.

Incumbents Mark Fitzgerald, Peter McIntosh and Patrick Walravens face challenger John Turnacliff for three Richardson Bay Sanitary District board seats on Nov. 3.

The Richardson Bay Sanitary District board candidates at a glance.

Smoke off Angel Island this week is a prescribed burn, not a wildfire. California State Parks asks Tiburon and Belvedere residents who see it not to call 911.

Paradise Coffee at Point Tiburon Plaza in Tiburon sells Cubano sandwiches, breakfast burritos and bonbons from a Tiburon chocolatier.

Tiburon's Heritage & Arts Commission is hunting for a new site for a donor-funded metal bird sculpture after residents objected to both locations it had proposed.