The Contra Costa Interfaith Supporting Community Organization (CCISCO), You, Me, We=Oakley! and the International Institute of the Bay Area (IIBA) host the second annual Community Citizenship Drive...
Liberty Union High School District alumni Douglas Adams, Craig Bronzan and Capt. Nicholas M. Eslinger returned to their former stomping grounds last week as role models imparting wisdom to future g...
Liberty High School’s young artists covered the ground (and in some cases, themselves) in chalk in preparation for The Day of the Arts last Friday. The campus-wide chalk drawings featured everythin...
When Brentwood resident Shellie Seyer was diagnosed with breast cancer in August of 2011, she knew she was in the fight of her life.
But four years after she lost her husband to heart disease, one ...
As the state’s Standardized Testing and Reporting (STAR) got rockin’ this week, Ron Nunn Elementary Principal Amy Wallace found a creative way to challenge her students to get into the academic roc...
Approximately 60 runners and walkers participated in the inaugural Ally5000 5K Fun Run at The Streets of Brentwood last weekend.
Oakley teen Ally Jenkins, who received two double lung transplants ...
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April 11, 1:08 p.m. The rear license plate was stolen from a vehicle left overnight at a business on Brentwood Boulevard.
April 11, 2:33 p.m. An unidentified person who forced entry i...
Joan Dierterich and Marie Sacco enjoy a game of Bunco during the Brentwood Relay For Life’s annual Bunco fundraiser at Shadow Lakes.
The event drew a crowd of 120 players, who raised more than $2,...
Local artist and art instructor Nancy Roberts gives a free acrylic painting demonstration this Saturday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at CR Framing and Gallery, 700 Harvest Park Drive in Brentwood.
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Writers are invited to celebrate May at Open Mic on Thursday, May 9 at 6:30 p.m. in The Gallery On Second, 741 Second St. in downtown Brentwood.
All short work – poetry, short story, nonfiction or ...
When Barbara and Anthony Hailey purchased their home, it had been vacant for some time due to foreclosure. They quickly got to work renovating the front yard by removing dead plants and grass and r...
The Rotary Club of Brentwood hosts its 20th annual golf tournament at the Shadow Lakes Golf Club in Brentwood on Monday, May 13. The event will help the Brentwood Rotary start a natural produce gle...
More than 7,900 teachers are currently educating approximately 169,000 students in Contra Costa County’s public schools. To recognize their efforts and bring well-deserved honor to the teaching pro...
The newest members of the East Contra Costa Fire Protection District were welcomed aboard last Saturday during a graduation ceremony at Freedom High School.
The graduates, who were hired by the di...
Cayln Ewing never thought she’d find her life’s calling in a beauty shop. She was getting her hair done one day in 2011, casually flipping through an issue of People Magazine when her eyes welled w...
Delta Informal Gardeners started as a group of 14 gardening enthusiasts who grew and sold plants to community members who needed a burst of color in their backyards. Twenty-five years later, DIG, a...
This week the Press debuts its version of three-dot journalism in our Talk About Town (TAT) column, where we take a quick peek – and an occasional good-natured poke – at people, events, businesse...
The working group charged with guiding Brentwood’s future went to work last week.
The 12-person group, comprising two City Council members, two planning commissioners, one Park & Recreation commiss...
Heritage High School has again been named a California Distinguished High School by the California Department of Education. Heritage first received the honor in 2009.
“We’re very proud of the fact ...
The 2013 Artists’ Show Tour, formerly known as the Artists’ Open Studio Tour, is scheduled for Saturday and Sunday, May 4 and 5. The free, self-guided tour includes stops in Brentwood, Discovery Ba...