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...
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 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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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,...