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And check out Bon Air Rhythm & Brews: Featuring Matt Jaffe on the Mill Valley Patch calendar

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Good morning Mill Valley! Your connection to what's happening around town is here. Take a sip of coffee and read on. ☀️

In today's newsletter:

  • Mill Valley-raised golfer heads back to the Walker Cup spotlight
  • Why this river-on-trial novel is coming to Mill Valley Library

Also on today's calendar: Bon Air Rhythm & Brews: Featuring Matt Jaffe and 9 more events.

Today's riddle: What do evil hens lay? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

  • Wednesday: Partly sunny and cool, with a high of 76 and low of 55 degrees.
  • Thursday: Partly sunny and cool, temps: high: 73, low: 55.
  • Friday: Areas of low clouds, then sun, with a high of 74 and low of 53 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• Sheils Donegan Secures 2nd Walker Cup Berth For Team GB&I - University of North Carolina Athletics (goheels.com) — A standout golfer who grew up in Mill Valley, Niall Sheils Donegan, has earned a second straight spot on Team Great Britain & Ireland for the prestigious Walker Cup this September. Now starring at the University of North Carolina, he posted one of the best single‑season scoring averages in school history and will face the U.S. again on an international stage.
   

• The Rippling of Rivers: 'Open the Floodgates' Gives Voice to a Waterway (pacificsun.com) — Mill Valley readers can meet San Anselmo author Nina Schuyler at a September 28 conversation about her new environmental novel, "Open the Floodgates," at the Mill Valley Library's Creekside Room. The book imagines a river on trial for legal personhood, blending courtroom drama, climate themes, and magical realism while drawing on Schuyler's experiences living beside San Anselmo Creek and engaging in local environmental activism.
   

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🗞 Nearby News

Corte Madera

  • Corte Madera announces exit of town manager (marinij.com)
  • Vero Combines Stanford's Proteomic Organ and Cell Aging Technologies to Build a New Clinical and Consumer Tool for Predictive Health (natlawreview.com)
  • NanaWall Announces Call for Submissions for NanaAwards (greenlodgingnews.com)

Larkspur

  • Events: Dead Sea Scrolls lecture, Rosh Hashanah mitzvah (jweekly.com)
  • Larkspur athletic club plan prompts community split, and spit (pressdemocrat.com)

Ok Mill Valley! So now you're in the loop about what's happening today. Thanks for reading, and see you in your inbox next time! Oh -- and if you like what you're reading, invite a friend to Patch AM!

-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: Deviled eggs (Thank you Karla H. for sending it in!)
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