Antioch
Oakley Union School District plans to cut $1.6 million from the district budget by the start of the 2010-11 school year.<br><i>Photo by Ruth Roberts</i> Schools brace for tough year
School superintendents throughout East County are tightening their fiscal belts as they brace for another year of sinking finances and impending cuts. “The state of California is in a crisis, and ...
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Stephanie Norberg and Sara Schall participate in Jump Day at Bristow Middle School.<br><i>Photo by Samie Hartley</i> Jumping into the record books
If you felt the ground shake on Monday morning, it wasn’t an earthquake. It was the sensation of thousands of Californians jumping rope simultaneously in an effort to enter the Guinness Book of Wo...
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<i>Photo courtesy of Richard Burke</i> Faithful friends
Through rain, sleet or (rarely) snow, they delivered. On the first Friday of the month, a group of retired Antioch postal workers meets at Smit’s Restaurant in Pittsburg for breakfast (served by E...
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Cops and conversation
The public is invited to join Antioch Police Lt. Leonard Orman on Saturday, Feb. 6 from 9 to 11 a.m. in a casual setting to learn about Antioch’s crime statistics, clearance rates and the city’s D...
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Antioch Rotary Past President Dr. Bob Deloso gives blood during the club’s recent blood drive.<br><i>Photo courtesy of Allen Payton</i> Rotary blood drive helps local hospitals
The recent Antioch Rotary Community Blood Drive netted 54 units of blood, almost double the amount collected last year. Coordinated by Club Past President Dale Hudson, and in conjunction with the ...
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Antioch Cop Log: Jan. 14 to Jan. 24
Jan. 14, 4 p.m. Narcotics officers of the Antioch and Pittsburg police departments arrested 20-year-old Pittsburg resident Paul Quintana and 22-year-old Pittsburg resident Walter Rodriguez afte...
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Artist s rendition of an eBART train.<br><i>Image courtesy of EBBC.org</i> Keller: city’s preferred eBART station is dead
The Hillcrest eBART station location preferred by Antioch officials because it would accommodate transit-oriented development ( TOD ) is dead due to lack of funding for its $50 million additional ...
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Environmentalist 
David Nesmith tells the audience at a Delta forum that fish get short-changed because they can’t write checks or vote.<br><i>Photo by Dave Roberts</i> No solutions proclaimed at Delta forum
Six officials discussed the crisis of the collapsing Delta ecosystem for three hours before a packed audience at the Antioch Historical Museum Saturday morning – with little agreement on how to sa...
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Students in Greg Cameron’s fifth-grade class at Pioneer Elementary School in Brentwood have collected more than $100 for relief efforts in Haiti.
<br><i>Photo courtesy of Stacie Robles</i>
Community steps up to help Haiti
Local groups and organizations have been digging deep into their hearts and pockets to bolster the humanitarian effort in Haiti. Some have already collected and sent packages or contributed dollar...
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“The state of the city is good, … it is guarded, it’s stable, it’s not on life support, it’s breathing on its own,” said Mayor Jim Davis in his State of the City speech last week at Dozier-Libbey Medical High School. <br><i>Photo by Dave Roberts</i> Mayor: Antioch not on life support
Antioch’s city government is sick in bed with the fiscal flu, but it’s expected to pull through, according to Mayor Jim Davis, who chose the venue of Dozier-Libbey Medical High School to deliver a...
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