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Kevin Hessel

Kevin Hessel

Executive Editor at The Ark

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Election turnout about 85% as final Marin results certified

With Marin’s Nov. 5 election results now certified, countywide voter turnout was officially 85.2%, down from the 90.2% turnout of the 2020 presidential election that ousted then-President Donald Trump in favor of Vice President Joe Biden. Strawberry voters came out at slighter high rates this year than their Marin neighbors, at about 85.8%, while Tiburon and Belvedere residents were lower, at 84.9% and 82.2%, respectively.For complete local election coverage, visit thearknewspaper.com/election20
13 days ago
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Tsunami warning puts disaster response to the test

The Tiburon Peninsula was briefly under the highest-level tsunami warning last week after a 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck off Humboldt County’s Cape Mendocino, with many residents taking to higher ground, local first responders visiting low-lying areas to issue warnings and dozens of parents retrieving their kids from Reed Elementary School, where the district ordered all schools to evacuate lower levels. But other residents, including those in mapped tsunami inundation zones, were left in the
13 days ago
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'Bomb cyclone': Tiburon Peninsula doused, power outages

The National Weather Service's San Francisco office predicted heavy rain and winds Nov. 20-23.1 p.m. Nov. 21 update:The storm so far has dumped more than 4.5 inches of rain on the Tiburon Peninsula since Wednesday, including 1.57 inches so far today. The latest forecasts have rain continuing through early Wednesday morning.— Kevin Hessel9 a.m. Nov. 21 update:The National Weather Service has reissued a flood-watch warning for North Bay counties, including coastal Marin, through Saturday morning.
about 1 month ago
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Marin Municipal Water District: Tiburon’s Russell will easily keep ...

Tiburon resident Larry Russell, who has represented the peninsula on the Marin Municipal Water District board for two decades, easily fended off his two challengers to win a sixth term. For complete local election coverage, visit thearknewspaper.com/election2024.Russell had about 62% of the vote as of the latest results in the Nov. 5 election, posted early Nov. 8, on track for another four years on the five-member board. His Division 5 includes Tiburon, Belvedere and Strawberry, parts of Corte M
about 1 month ago
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Southern Marin Fire Protection District: Incumbents on track to kee...

The three incumbents on the board of the Southern Marin Fire Protection District — which serves northern Tiburon and Strawberry, among other areas — will all keep their seats in their race against a single challenger.For complete local election coverage, visit thearknewspaper.com/election2024. In preliminary results from the Nov. 5 race posted as of early Nov. 8, 17,317 ballots had been cast in the pick-three race with Cathryn Hilliard of Tamalpais Valley getting 9,610 votes, picked on about 56%
about 1 month ago
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Other offices, state propositions: 94920 splits with county on pris...

Tiburon Peninsula voters opted to help protect same-sex marriage rights in California, block laws that would allow cities to expand rent control and lower the voter threshold for infrastructure and affordable-housing bonds, and they took tough-on-crime positions to jail shoplifters and continue slave labor in prisons.For complete local election coverage, visit thearknewspaper.com/election2024. Preliminary results show Tiburon and Belvedere voters in the Nov. 5 election breaking with their Strawb
about 1 month ago
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Tamalpais Union High School District: Newcomers Holden and Times-Gr...

In a five-way race among newcomers, Jennifer Holden of San Anselmo and Ida Times-Green of Marin City are cruising to easy victories for two vacant seats on the Tamalpais Union High School District board of trustees.For complete local election coverage, visit thearknewspaper.com/election2024. As of preliminary results from the Nov. 5 election, posted early Nov. 8, voters had cast 48,570 ballots in the pick-two race. Times-Green has 19,090 votes, Holden 18,337 votes, with both picked on about 39%
about 1 month ago
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Commission sends Belvedere’s new housing plan for council approval

The third draft of Belvedere’s long-overdue housing plan is now headed to the City Council for review and approval, and its consultant may have found the magic bullet to win state certification by borrowing heavily from a single-family lot-split strategy it successfully deployed 18 months ago in Ross. Local officials reviewed the 188-unit draft 2023-2031 housing element at a special Oct. 30 hearing of the Planning Commission’s “housing subcommittee,” which suggested only minor revisions be forwa
about 2 months ago
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Q&A: 21 (more) questions for the Tiburon Town Council candidates

Two incumbents on the Tiburon Town Council, Vice Mayor Holli Thier and Councilmember Isaac Nikfar, face challenges from Parks, Open Space and Trails Commission Chair Chuck Hornbrook and former mayor and councilmember Andrew Thompson in the Nov. 5 election. On Oct. 8, The Ark sponsored a public candidate forum at Tiburon Town Hall, moderated by the League of Women Voters of Marin, with questions submitted by readers before and during the event. As in years past, there were far more questions than
2 months ago
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Court rejects appeal in civil-rights suit against Belvedere, officer

A three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has rejected federal civil-rights claims brought by the owners of Yema clothing boutique against Belvedere over a police incident at the downtown Tiburon shop in 2020. The six-page ruling, issued Sept. 11, affirmed a May decision of the Northern District Court in San Francisco that the shop owners didn’t sufficiently make the case that Belvedere police officer Jeremy Clark, recently promoted to sergeant, was involved in a conspiracy with
3 months ago
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Sam’s Anchor Cafe offers discounts to first responders amid controv...

Sam’s Anchor Cafe has a response to recent headlines questioning the use of an Oakland police boat tied to its pier: 50% off food for first responders and their families, 90% for families of those serving overseas, for the rest of the year. The bayside restaurant made the announcement on social media Aug. 28 after being caught up in several days of media coverage focused on the proper use of taxpayer resources — from the boat itself to fuel expenses — for a bay cruise to Tiburon.“Sam’s has alway
4 months ago
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Save the date, submit questions for Ark’s Oct. 8 Tiburon council ca...

The Ark is sponsoring a Tiburon Town Council candidates forum, to be moderated by the League of Women Voters of Marin, at 7 p.m. Oct. 8 at Town Hall.For complete local election coverage, visit thearknewspaper.com/election2024 Incumbents Isaac Nikfar and Holli Thier are seeking to defend their seats in the Nov. 5 election against challengers Chuck Hornbrook and Andrew Thompson. At the forum, which will be recorded by the Community Media Center of Marin and available after the event, league volunt
4 months ago
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Early victories for Belvedere, Reed candidates

Belvedere City Councilmember Sally Wilkinson and two planning commissioners, Kevin Burke and Pat Carapiet, have won the three four-year seats up for election on the Nov. 5 ballot, as no challengers stepped up to make it a contest.Read complete local election coverage at thearknewspaper.com/election2024 They’re among several incumbents and newcomers to cruise to victory as the local filing period formally closed Aug. 14, the extended deadline for newcomers if an incumbent in a race didn’t file by
4 months ago
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Bay Area board scraps affordable-housing bond measure

A $20 billion affordable-housing bond that would have directed $699 million to Marin County and its 11 cities and towns — including Tiburon and Belvedere — has been yanked from the November ballot. Read complete local election coverage at thearknewspaper.com/election2024Citing growing concerns about timing, a pending lawsuit and the success of a partner initiative, the Bay Area Housing Finance Authority called a special meeting Aug. 14 and voted to remove the nine-county Regional Measure 4, whic
4 months ago
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Four-way race for Tiburon council; still time for challengers in Be...

Incumbent Isaac Nikfar and former Mayor Andrew Thompson have officially entered the race for Tiburon Town Council, making it a four-way battle for two seats on the Nov. 5 ballot. Read complete local election coverage at thearknewspaper.com/election2024Both filed their candidacy papers last week ahead of the Aug. 9 nomination deadline, with Nikfar seeking to retain his seat and challenger Thompson gunning for a second stint on the council after serving from 1992 to 2003. They’ll face incumbent Vi
4 months ago
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Ex-mayor signals interest in new run for Tiburon council

Former Tiburon Mayor Andrew Thompson is poised to come out of retirement to challenge for a spot on the Town Council, making it a potential four-way race for two seats in the Nov. 5 election.Read complete local election coverage at thearknewspaper.com/election2024 Thompson, who served on the council from 1992 to 2003 before an unsuccessful bid for county supervisor, pulled candidate-nomination papers on July 25, according to town records. The same day, incumbent Vice Mayor Holli Thier and Parks,
5 months ago
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New candidates emerging in Tiburon, Belvedere council races

Two Belvedere planning commissioners have signaled interest in seats on the City Council, with Chair Pat Carapiet and Commissioner Kevin Burke both pulling candidate-nomination papers on July 15, the first day of the filing period. Burke formally filed at The Ark’s press deadline July 22. The council seats of incumbents Nancy Kemnitzer, Jim Lynch and Sally Wilkinson are up for election in the Nov. 5 contest, with Wilkinson formally filing her candidacy papers on July 18, according to city record
5 months ago
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The Ark's Francisco Martinez wins national Rookie of the Year; pape...

The Ark has won 48 total awards in the National Newspaper Association’s and California News Publishers Association’s annual journalism contests — a new record for the paper — including national Rookie of the Year for Tiburon beat reporter Francisco Martinez. Martinez, a Mill Valley resident who celebrated his one-year anniversary with The Ark on July 11, is a 2021 Cal Poly grad who got his start as anchor and producer of the daily newscast on student-run KCPR-FM, winning best newscast for 2018-2
5 months ago
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Tiburon sees lowest levels of crime in four decades

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. The municipalities remain among the safest in California and in Marin, with Ross having the lowest overall police-reported crime rate in the county, followed by Belvedere, Fairfax and Tiburon, according to the FBI’s 2022 Crime in the Nation report, released Oc
5 months ago
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Angel Island ferry teams up with New Zealand firm for new electric ...

SAN FRANCISCO — The Angel Island-Tiburon Ferry Co. has contracted with New Zealand-based EV Maritime to build its new plug-in hybrid vessel, part of a first-in-California effort to electrify the fleet ahead of a zero-emissions deadline. Angel Island-Tiburon Ferry owner Capt. Maggie McDonogh met with New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and other dignitaries at Pier 9 in San Francisco on July 12 to announce the deal for the $12-million, roughly 65-foot vessel, tentatively named “Watts Up!
6 months ago
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$20 billion affordable-housing measure to be on Bay Area ballots

Jul 2, 2024 ... A bond measure to raise $20 billion for new and preserved affordable homes around the Bay Area will go to voters on Nov. 5.
6 months ago