Diane Smith
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Diane Smith has contributed to The Ark since 1980, writing and photographing everything from personalities to events.
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Latest from Diane
Ark Row firm aims to help smaller businesses connect with customers
Brittany Haning says the idea of owning her own communications agency popped into her mind when she was 17 and never left. She has since...
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Color is the focus of latest art exhibit at Belvedere-Tiburon Library
More than four-dozen works will be on display in “Colors in Art: Voices Soft and Loud,” a new exhibit that opens Jan. 18 at the...
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Jane/Marin brings iconic baked goods to The Cove
When the longtime owners of Sweet Things Bakery at The Cove shopping center, Marsha Lasky and Sharon Leach, retired, they left the...
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Tiburon artist’s hand-woven baskets on display at Town Hall
When Annelies Atchley takes a walk near her Tiburon home, she picks up any discarded items she sees, from foil and buttons to earrings...
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Six locals honored in annual Belvedere Community Foundation photo contest
Snapshots of a full moon over Angel Island, fog covering the Belvedere Lagoon and a crow perched in a Tiburon tree are among the winning...
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Bay Area watercolorists to display works in new Belvedere-Tiburon Library exhibit
More than two dozen Bay Area artists will display their paintings in the Belvedere-Tiburon Library’s latest art exhibit, “Contemporary...
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Tiburon Town Hall art gallery reopens with ‘Past and Present’ exhibit
Tiburon Town Hall is celebrating the post-COVID grand reopening of its art gallery with “Past and Present,” an exhibit featuring 22...
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Belvedere-Tiburon Library exhibit showcases creativity of local artists
More than two dozen Tiburon Peninsula artists will display their works in the Belvedere-Tiburon Library’s latest exhibit, “By 94920:...
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Artist behind Portuguese dairy mural to show paintings in Tiburon Town Hall exhibit
A new exhibit featuring the landscape artist who designed the Portuguese dairy mural along the Old Rail Trail near McKegney Green opens...
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Library to exhibit works from Del Mar art students
The Belvedere-Tiburon Library’s annual exhibit featuring art from Del Mar Middle School students is back after a three-year hiatus. The...
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Landmarks honors railroad museum docent
To most visitors to the Tiburon Railroad and Ferry Depot Museum, Becky Pringle is the volunteer docent who explains the town’s railroad...
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Westminster congregants pitch in on disaster recovery in Kentucky
In December 2021, a violent tornado tore through western Kentucky, including Dawson Springs, a town of 2,400 or so people that sits about...
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A&C Ventures is named chamber’s business of the year
Commercial landlord A&C Ventures has been named the Tiburon Peninsula Chamber of Commerce’s 2022 Business of the Year. Chamber Executive...
By DIANE SMITH ·Five local teens earn Eagle Scout ranking with community-service projects
Five Tiburon teens achieved the highest rank within Scouts BSA in 2021 after completing community-leadership projects that ranged from...
By DIANE SMITH ·Squalo Vino brings artisan wines, craft beers to Main Street
The staff at Squalo Vino expected a quiet start when the wine-and-beer tasting room opened its Main Street doors in the beginning of...
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Wine festival set to return to downtown Tiburon on Oct. 2
Fifty established and small-production wineries will return to Point Tiburon Plaza Oct. 2 for the 38th annual Tiburon Wine Festival. The...
By DIANE SMITH ·Classic Car Show to mark 20th anniversary
After a one-year pandemic-related hiatus, the Tiburon Classic Car Show returns Sept. 18, with 90 cars from 1975 and earlier on display...
By DIANE SMITH ·Woodlands Market in Tiburon named chamber's business of the year
Woodlands Market’s decade-long record of giving back to the community has prompted the Tiburon Peninsula Chamber of Commerce to name the...
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Tiburon hair-accessory designer moves studio to Ark Row
When Renée Rivera was a kid, she loved to wear headbands, but they always were so tight they gave her a headache. Now the Tiburon...
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Real Good Greens brings farm-fresh produce delivery to Tiburon Peninsula
When the coronavirus pandemic first hit Marin County in March 2020, Helene Zahoudanis and her husband, Matt Petersen, learned local...
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