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Near escape
May 09, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
A towering eucalyptus tree was no match for the recent furious East County winds. Brentwood’s Linda and Paul Ciaramitaro woke up Thursday, May 2 to find parts of their tree strewn in several direc...
Fusion 3 highlights unique salon experience
by Kyle Szymanski
May 09, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
When the owners of Brentwood’s Fusion 3 Salon opened the shop, they wanted to give the industry a new look. Three years later, the salon has given some of the industry’s worst practices a drastic c...
Orleans does Gulf Coast with gusto
by Charlotte Cusack
May 08, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
Orleans was in the works long before it opened shortly before Christmas last year in historic downtown Brentwood. Owner Kim Nelson envisioned the restaurant, which touts “A Taste of Louisiana,” in ...
Brentwood named Playful City
May 07, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
Brentwood recently joined 217 cities and towns in the United States that earned the designation Playful City USA from the national nonprofit organization KaBOOM! The award recognizes communities fo...
Summer lunch for kids
May 07, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
The Brentwood Union School District is participating in the USDA Summer Food Service Program, in which lunch will be provided to all children and teens 2 to 18 without charge from June 10 through J...
Little white church gets facelift
May 06, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
Most Brentwood residents have seen it for years, and many have feared for its fate. The little white church on the corner is better known as the Brentwood Church of Christ. The church traces its or...
Swimming sensation
May 06, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
Heritage senior Rachel Allison recently signed her letter of intent to swim for Azusa Pacific University in Southern California. A three-time league champion in the 100 breaststroke, Allison holds...
Perfectly placed produce
May 05, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
The Liberty High School Arts and Humanities Academy is putting the finishing touches on its five agricultural-themed murals on utility boxes in downtown Brentwood. Students have been working on th...
Drive-by dragon
May 04, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
East Bay residents have the Bay Bridge troll – a 14-inch iron sculpture that lives beneath the eastern span – and now Brentwood residents have the Happy Dragon. If you’ve driven along State Route ...
Brentwood Fire Station 54 reopens
by Kyle Szymanski
May 02, 2013 | 1 1 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
The sight and sounds of a fire truck don’t usually generate joyous excitement. But that’s what happened Wednesday when the East Contra Costa Fire Protection District reopened Station 54 in downtown...
Talk About Town: May 2
May 02, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
Spotted outside The Press building this week: a white, Volkswagen convertible with a larger-than-life stuffed toy dog riding shotgun. Rumor has it that a certain larger-than-life Brentwood m...
Athletes inducted into Hall of Fame
by Kyle Szymanski
May 02, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
Their glory days were long ago, but their accomplishments will be remembered forever. Liberty’s Larry Enos Jr., Rob Gatrell, Christopher Gruler, Linda Ghilarducci, and Freedom’s Deondre Borel, Aman...
Oakley to host U.S. citizenship drive
May 02, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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...
Grads of Distinction share achievements
by Samie Hartley
May 02, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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...
Chalk it up
May 02, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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...
Survivor barrels through life despite cancer battle
by Kyle Szymanski
May 02, 2013 | 1 1 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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 ...
Rock STAR inspiration
May 02, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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...
Digging deep for donors
May 02, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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 ...
East County Cop Log: May 2
May 02, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
BRENTWOOD 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...
Rolling the dice against cancer
May 02, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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,...