So you signed the kids out for a midweek trip to Disneyland. What’s the big deal if your middle schooler takes a mental health day or skips class for some quality time with grandma? Occasionally ta...
The Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation has informed the City of Brentwood that the city has been taken off the list of potential sites for a new parole office.
In a letter to Mayor Bob Ta...
The plan to build a 2,200-student high school in a rural area near Knightsen at Sellers Avenue and Delta Road became not quite as certain after the Liberty Union High School District Board postpone...
Since Brentwood has been named a Playful City by KaBOOM! for the third consecutive year, the Brentwood Parks and Recreation Department is pulling out all the stops to show that this East County com...
A Friday night windstorm flipped a dozen canopies set up for the ninth annual Brentwood Art, Wine and Jazz Festival last weekend, but because the artists had yet to arrive, no damage was done to th...
September’s Open Mic Night, sponsored by the Brentwood Writers, will be held Thursday, Sept. 9 at 6:30 at The Game in downtown Brentwood. All short work – poetry, short story, nonfiction, or any ot...
Kids don’t normally associate running with fun, but next week students in the Brentwood Union School District will be lacing up their shoes for a good cause.
The inaugural Brentwood Run For Fun’ds ...
“I’m about to make some noise,” declared historian Roy Wells as students at Edna Hill Middle School let out a collective OMG gasp. It’s not every day a man comes to campus with a gun and isn’t tack...
Aaron Tanner in his Superman T-shirt left UCLA Medical Center last week following a heart and kidney transplant on Aug. 13.
The 5-year-old Brentwood boy and his mother Elizabeth will be staying at...
The Brentwood Police Department has announced it will be operating a DUI/driver’s license checkpoint on Friday, Sept. 3 from 6 p.m. to 2 a.m. on Sand Creek Road between Highland Way and Linden Driv...
The Liberty Union High School District has been notified that it will receive $237,138 over three years to provide a Tobacco Use Prevention and Education (TUPE) Program that will reach every studen...
Members of Knightsen 4-H celebrated a victory at the California State Fair last month, where the Contra Costa County display received the Silver Award in the Counties Exhibit Competition.
Thirty co...
Students from Pioneer Elementary and Bristow Middle School in Brentwood sold lemonade and Kool-Aid to thirsty soccer fans at The Streets of Brentwood soccer fields recently.
The students raised mo...
On Sunday, Sept. 12, the Family Worship Center, 161 Sand Creek Road, Suite A in Brentwood, celebrates National Back to Church Sunday. The day is also the ninth anniversary of the church’s founding,...
Labor Day traditionally marks the end of summer, but as you put away your beach gear, stash your lawn chairs and dig out your jacket for the impending autumn chill, mark your calendar for the lates...
If you’re up for some laughter, a little amour and a quick “trip” to Paris for a night, you’re in luck. This fall the Liberty High School Playmakers present The Learned Ladies (Les Femmes Savantes)...
Standing on the sidelines of the Freedom High football field Sunday afternoon was remarkably like being at a high school football game, although some of the youngest players in the Brentwood Oakley...
A hardy group of Brentwood mountaineers recently hauled their Hometown Weekly Newspaper up Yosemite National Park’s iconic Half Dome, a 17-mile round trip requiring 4,796 feet of elevation gain.
R...
Members of the Liberty High School Cheerleaders and Dance Team brought a copy of The Press to this summer’s USA Santa Cruz Cheer and Dance Camp.
Two of the girls earned Leadership awards – Britney...
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September is Fruit and Veggies – More Matters Month, sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Produce for Better Health Foundation. The initiative reflects the updated dietar...