Ross approves Marin Art and Garden Center upgrades

The Ross Town Council has approved a plan for renovations at the Marin Art and Garden Center.

The plan includes installing a new stage and upgrading the outdoor event space known as the Livermore Pavilion.

“Boy, that’s a popular project. No opposition? Wow,” Mayor Bill Kircher at the council meeting Thursday.

The 9.8-acre site at 30 Sir Francis Drake Blvd. dates to the 1860s. It was owned by the Worn family and the Kittle family until the 1940s, when environmentalist Caroline...