The Week That Was in Mill Valley

In a week that was book-ended by Tam High football team wins over Drake and Lincoln, as well as action-packed weekends of entertainment, a tragedy in San Bruno captured the attention of residents o Mill Valley and beyond this week.

For the past several weeks, Pacific Gas & Electric has been on the receiving end of considerable skepticism about its installation of Smart Meters. The City Council listened to many of those skeptics Tuesday night and decided to send two letters expressing its concerns about the meters.

PG&E of course has a much bigger problem on its hands as residents of San Bruno and beyond demand answers from the company, which owns the 30-inch natural gas pipeline that exploded into a fireball Thursday evening, destroying 37 homes, killing at least seven people and sending hundreds fleeing from more than 200 other homes. Mill Valley residents have plenty of opportunities to help the victims.

On a lighter note, the Marin Theatre Company is collaborating with two San Francisco theater companies on the acclaimed Brother/Sister trilogy, the Homestead Valley Music Festival was a blast, the Fireman's Ball was resurrected, Charlie Hong Kong is set to open a street food restaurant downtown, and our police blotter was home to a series of would-be crimes.

The Mill Valley Film Festival continues to build towards showtime with the unveiling of its two opening night films, Conviction and the King's Speech.

And the Mill Valley School District's public outreach on its modernization plans at Edna Maguire, Old Mill and Tam Valley elementary schools continued this week, with a school board vote on the designs set for this Tuesday. The district is also bracing itself for Round Two of its battle with whooping cough, and we highlighted the changes made by Revolution Foods for the district's school lunch menu.

Finally, the ninth anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks gave us a chance to highlight the unrelenting calls for peace from our resident Seniors for Peace.