Heidi Tomsky News Today

A 51-year-old North Bay non-profit, serving low-income kids and their families, says it's at risk of losing its building. 

The Fairfax-San Anselmo Children's Center has offered nearly $1.6 million to buy the site, but the district has doubts about the financing.

The Fairfax-San Anselmo Children's Center said it would pay nearly $1.6 million for the Deer Park site it occupies.

The fate of the Fairfax-San Anselmo Children's Center remains unclear as a war of words between the two sides has stalled efforts to find a permanent home for the embattled day care for low-income families.

Fifty years ago, Ethel Seiderman created the Fairfax-San Anselmo Children’s Center. For 50 years, FSACC has provided high-quality subsidized child care and education services for children from infancy through fifth grade. The center has leased the former Deer Park Elementary School site from the Ross Valley School District. Early in 2022, Terry Tao, a lawyer […]

The future of a beloved childcare center is in jeopardy as the lease expired for the Fairfax-San Anselmo Children's Center in the North Bay.

More than 200 people packed a Ross Valley School District board meeting this week, most of them demanding the district extend a timeline for a beloved child care center to stay at a district-owned property. “I request that you grant the children’s center an extension of six to nine months, and work with them to […]

The Ross Valley School District terminated the center's lease effective Thursday, the longstanding deadline, but it has not commenced eviction proceedings.

The county schools superintendent said the deal would be too costly for repairs and maintenance.

With a sale of the Fairfax-San Anselmo Children’s Center property to Marin County Office of Education now in doubt, the Ross Valley School District is asking operators for a backup plan. The school district sent a letter to center operators on Sunday denying an extension to the Aug. 31 deadline for a sale. Shelley Hamilton, […]