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From left, Reed Union School District dads — dressed as members of KISS — Steve Bishop, Keith Stimson, Brett Mock, Steve Soja and Scott Miller boost the bidding during the Foundation for Reed Schools' annual Reed Regatta fundraiser at Blackie's Pasture on May 12.
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Packed house for library critics forum

By DEIRDRE McCROHAN
dmccrohan@thearknewspaper.com
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Nearly 120 Belvedere and Tiburon residents packed into Belvedere Community Center on May 7 to sound off on their mounting concerns about the planned expansion of the library.

The Belvedere-Tiburon Library Agency board of trustees is pushing a plan to build a 16,000-square-foot addition to the existing 10,500-square-foot library in what is now the library-Tiburon Town Hall parking lot.

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Tsunami drill exposes flaw: too few hear alert sirens

By TERI RONEY
troney@thearknewspaper.com
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Operation Riptide was a walk in the park for anyone living on the Belvedere Lagoon, but for emergency response teams testing for glitches in an evacuation plan, the May 10 exercise was a working day that began in the Emergency Operations Center in the Tiburon police station at 5:30 in the morning and continued for the rest of the day.

In a carefully staged drill, Tiburon and Belvedere joined with the Tiburon Fire Protection District to test the efficiency of a plan to evacuate Belvedere's Lagoon area in the event of a tsunami warning.

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Four Belvedere cadidates will debate tonight

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will host a public debate at 7 tonight, May 16, among Belvedere City Council candidates Claire McAuliffe, Sandra Donnell, Bob McCaskill and James Robertson. The four are vying for three seats on the council, each a four-year term. Donnell, Belvedere's vice mayor, is seeking re-election, while the other two seats are being vacated by Mayor Jerry Butler and Councilmember John Telischak, whose terms are expiring.

The debate — hosted by The Ark's Belvedere reporter, Teri Roney, and moderated by the League of Women Voters — will take place at the Belvedere Community Center at 450 San Rafael Ave., below City Hall.

The debate will air on the Community Center of Marin's Marin TV government channel — Comcast 27 and AT&T U-verse 99 — at 8 p.m. May 20, 2 p.m. May 23, 8 p.m. May 26, 9 a.m. May 30 and 6 p.m. June 4. The election is June 5.

 

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