Antioch Mayor Wade Harper has always upheld the tradition of listening to the speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr. on the holiday celebrating the birthday of the civil rights leader. But as he’s don...
The Discover Art League hosts a figure-sketching workshop Monday, Feb. 4 from 6 to 9 p.m. at CR Framing, 700 Harvest Park Drive in Brentwood.
The group meets Monday evenings on a varying schedule. ...
The East Contra Costa County Chapter of Project Linus holds its annual Make a Blanket Day on Saturday, Feb. 16 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
The national nonprofit Project Linus makes and donates blankets ...
The City of Brentwood will celebrate the grand opening of the new pirate-themed universal abilities playground at Veterans Park, 3841 Balfour Road, with a ribbon cutting on Friday, Feb. 1 at 4 p.m....
Contra Costa County District III Supervisor Mary Nejedly Piepho is seeking qualified, motivated candidates to serve on the following county advisory committees:
County Library Commission
The comm...
Residents are invited to take to the dance floor or just sit, listen and tap their toes as the Big Band era comes alive at the Brentwood Senior Citizens Club, Inc. Big Band Dinner Dance on Saturday...
Naturalist James Frank is accustomed to seeing animals, but when he witnessed a video of one of the first salmon seen in Marsh Creek in 54 years, it filled him with excitement.
“The video is really...
The Delta Stewardship Council meets Thursday, Jan. 24 at 9:30 a.m. in Sacramento to discuss the twin tunnels project in the Delta.
Jan McCleery, a member of the Save the California Delta Alliance (...
The San Francisco Giants’ 2010 and 2012 World Series trophies will be on display Jan. 28 from 6-8 p.m. in the Antioch Community Center, 4703 Lone Tree Way.
Although fans won’t be allowed to touch t...
Brentwood residents and Loma Vista Elementary fourth-graders Devon Cardoza and Jason Tastard made the recent holidays brighter for children in need. The entrepreneurial 9-year-olds took a school pr...
“I can’t believe it! It looks like a freakin’ living room,” exclaimed a joyful youngster upon entering the Brentwood Police Activity Leagues’ new Youth Center, which opened its doors Monday.
Design...
A collaboration of community partners is preparing to showcase Black history at the Antioch Historical Society. The Black History Art Exhibit will feature a timeline in art, literature and creative...
The Discovery Bay Corvette Club is at it again: giving away money to those in need. This year the club provided $3,000 to help others, including beneficiaries such as Operation Creekside, Hospice o...
Brentwood Men’s Club and the Liberty High School Parents of Playmakers hold their annual Valentine crab feed and dance Saturday, Feb. 8 from 6 to 11 p.m. at Veterans Hall, 757 First St. in Brentwoo...
The Liberty Lions Band Boosters holds a crab feed fundraiser Jan. 19 at the Brentwood Civic Center, 35 Oak St. Entertainment will be provided by the Liberty Jazz Band. Doors open at 5:30 p.m. for a...
Soroptimist International of Antioch is offering a $1,000 Leta Sater Scholarship to a 2013 graduating senior girl who resides in Antioch and is pursuing further full-time education at a community c...
The Antioch Chamber of Commerce hosts its annual Inaugural Gala Dinner and Awards Ceremony on Friday, March 8 at the Lone Tree Golf Course Event Center, 4800 Golf Course Road.
The event honors Anti...
The Delta Blues Benefit Concert to raise funds for Antioch’s signature music festival is scheduled for Saturday, Feb. 9 at El Campanil Theatre.
Since 1999, the Delta Blues Festival has provided the...
It’s a little after 10 p.m. on New Year’s Eve – and the party was just getting started.
Eager to evade the forthcoming “witching hour,” as he called it, a cook at Mike’s Beef ’N’ Brew in Oakley was...
As the threat of a peripheral canal looms, and the deadline for public comment on the Delta Plan Final Draft approaches, Discovery Bay resident Jan McCleery wants residents to know there is still t...