http://www.pacificsun.com If it is local and useful, it is on PacificSun.com. en-us In response to Loren Moore and Adam Scow's's letter from July 16 ["The De-Salt Treaty", in which they argued against the Marin Municipal Water District ever considering a desal plant.]]> Justin Kurland saves a bicyclist's life after a car accident and a balloon man gives out customer information.]]> Last month's San Rafael Twilight Criterium was a race for the ages--with many of the cycling world's elite speedsters careening their 21st century velocipedes roughshod through the streets of downtown San Rafael. This exclusive Pacific Sun video is your chance to relive the excitement all over again--if you can handle it...]]> Volunteers from the San Rafael nonprofit flock to Gulf for Operation: Bird Rescue]]> The veil of polite pretense dropped Monday, at a meeting called to determine the fate of two ballot initiatives aimed at taking desalination to Marin Municipal Water District voters in November.]]> "If you haven't got a ha' penny than God bless you," will mean more to Novato residents than lyrics from a Christmas song this autumn—as the City Council voted 5-0 this week to put a half-cent sales-tax increase on the November ballot.]]> Tattoos and MySpace page reveal more about suspected killer Frank Anthony Souza...
Schaefer's family defend slain son...]]> Before it filters salt from the sea, the Marin Municipal Water District will filter off a few votes—when it places its own desalination measure on the November ballot to compete with a stricter desal measure that's already qualified for the ballot.]]> Convicted motorcycle killer Edward Schaefer was fatally stabbed Monday by a San Quentin inmate wielding a makeshift knife made out of bunk-bed parts. The suspect, Frank Anthony Souza, is serving 60-to-life for strangling a San Jose homeless man.]]> Several cash-squeezed Marin nonprofits are doing a bit more celebrating thanks to the To Celebrate Life Breast Cancer Foundation, which has dolled out $275,000 in grants among 21 Bay Area nonprofits. ]]> Marin City strangers come to an ailing man's aid and the Tam High Class of 1980 resurrects the school's now-banned American Indian mascot on an Old West "Wanted" poster.]]> Board says it will pedal ahead with cycling path--despite grand jury recommendation to curb the deal. ]]>