Spend more than a few minutes with Trisha and John Parker and one thing quickly becomes clear: this is a couple that knows how to have fun. Bright, energetic and still playfully flirty after 40 yea...
CSD Director Ray Tetreault, left, offers Dave Dove the town’s thanks along with an official Discovery Bay jacket and commemorative plaque in appreciation for his service to the community during his...
East County commuters will begin paying a dollar a day to park at the Pittsburg/Bay Point station on Jan. 19. Park and Ride lots, however, will remain free of charge to all patrons and provide easy...
The Discovery Bay Press stowed away with Ron and Rosalie Keefer as they celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary with some close friends on an Island Adventure tour through the backcountry and jun...
The Discovery Bay CSD board has appointed its new directors to two of its most high-profile positions. The appointments came as a surprise to some, who believed the annual process would be little m...
Sheriff Warren Rupf says he has no intention of providing staff or coordinating meetings for a Discovery Bay P-6 citizens oversight committee, despite a written request from the Contra Costa County...
Jeanne Turner is proud of her recent honor as an Educator of the Year nominee, but not for the usual reasons.
“It was very exciting to have had the experience and to be considered (for the award),”...
This year at the Discovery Bay Corvette Club’s annual Christmas Party, instead of exchanging gifts among themselves, each family brought two gifts to support Delta Community Services’ effort to aid...
John Muir’s Outpatient Center in Brentwood will be starting up a new session of parenting classes beginning Jan. 12.
Loving Solutions and Parent Project Senior are two programs designed to help par...
Two years ago, when Discovery Bay General Manager Virgil Koehne made his pitch to the CSD board to create wetlands as a way to remove contaminants from the town’s wastewater, the community was faci...
Discovery Bay residents Karolyn and Galen Eastham packed a copy of their Hometown Weekly Newspaper for their trip to Egypt, where they’re happy to report that after all these years, the pyramids ar...
Former Discovery Bay resident Val Lao took his Hometown Weekly Newspaper on a summer trip to the iconic Grand Canyon, where he experienced the new Skywalk Glass Bridge, featuring a see-through floo...
Opponents of the proposed Delta 2-Gates project won the battle if not the war last week when the Obama administration called for the delay of the controversial test plan to save the Delta smelt.
“W...
Two CSD board members and one former director have been asked by town legal council to return to the district a total of more than $8,000 they received for attending meetings that did not qualify f...
Discovery Bay residents love a parade, and last weekend enthusiasts showed their seasonal spirit at the Holiday on the Lake event on Willow Lake. Participants lit up the night sky with their sparkl...
Contra Costa County residents can now get free H1N1 and seasonal flu vaccine at public health vaccination clinics while supplies last. The priority group requirements have been lifted because more ...
Don Littell of Discovery Bay, center, along with two friends, recently reeled in a huge 8-foot sturgeon off Decker Island near Rio Vista.
The sturgeon was too big to keep, but during the hour-long...
Last weekend’s crush of wind and rain did little to deter Discovery Bay residents from enjoying one of their biggest parties of the year. In fact, the weather held off just long enough for the annu...
Discovery Bay has a new landscape manager; the first official overseer for the town since July, 2008.
Fairin Perez, a former account manager with Valley Crest – one of the town’s two landscape vend...
Our flurry of holiday activities often causes us to forget the basics of maintaining safety while shopping and at home. “It’s important to remember that opportunity is the criminals’ key to crime,”...