Kevin Hessel

Fierce winds battered the Tiburon Peninsula on Dec. 14, blowing baywater onto San Rafael Avenue in Belvedere and knocking down trees and power lines in Strawberry, while rains combined with seasonal king tides to flood inbound Tiburon Boulevard alongside Greenwood Cove Drive. Early that morning, San Francisco had received its first-ever tornado warning, when winds of up to 80 mph tore through the Richmond district and Golden Gate Park areas about 6 a.m. before an EF1 tornado with winds up to 90

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

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

An atmospheric river driven by a powerful bomb cyclone doused the Tiburon Peninsula with more than 6 inches of rain over three days last week, knocking out power to more than 1,000 homes and businesses when it first struck Nov. 20. After a mostly dry weekend, bouts of wet weather resumed early Nov. 25 and were expected to continue through Tuesday afternoon, Nov. 26, after The Ark’s press deadline, with partly cloudy skies and chances of rain falling to 15% or lower through the Thanksgiving holid

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.

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

Tiburon Town Council incumbents Holli Thier and Isaac Nikfar are poised to retain their seats if early returns hold, while the Measure B infrastructure bond for the Tamalpais Union High School District also appears headed toward victory.For complete local election coverage, visit thearknewspaper.com/election2024.Preliminary results posted about 8:30 p.m. Nov. 5, which include initial counts from mail-in and vote-center ballots, show Thier with 1,367 votes and Nikfar with 1,330 in the pick-two ra

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%

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

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%