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Byron school board to fill recent vacancy
Nov 12, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 9 9 recommendations | email to a friend
Applications are now being taken to fill a seat on the Byron Union School District Board of Trustees. According to the California Education Code, any person, regardless of sex, who is 18 years of a...
Discovery Bay Cop Log: October
Nov 12, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 9 9 recommendations | email to a friend
Oct. 4 – Vandalism was reported on the 2300 block of Newport Place. Oct. 5 – A residential burglary occurred on the 1800 block of Seal Way. Oct. 8 – On the 4800 block of South Point, a subjec...
CSD board nominees down to two
by Ruth Roberts
Nov 09, 2009 | 77 77 comments | 42 42 recommendations | email to a friend
Discovery Bay resident Michael McCleery has withdrawn his name as a candidate for one of the two CSD seats left vacant last month by the resignations of Treasurer Dave Dove and Director Shannon Mur...
CSD deadlocks over board appointments
by Ruth Roberts
Nov 06, 2009 | 60 60 comments | 13 13 recommendations | email to a friend
Discovery Bay’s three remaining CSD board members, unable to agree on the appointment of two new directors this week, will try again at a special meeting on Nov. 11. Wednesday’s regular meeting of ...
Group vows to fight 2-Gates project
by Ruth Roberts
Nov 05, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 15 15 recommendations | email to a friend
With less than two weeks to go before the close of public comment on the 2-Gates Fish Protection Demonstration Project, members of a newly formed Discovery Bay coalition are working to extend that ...
Peculiar promenade
Nov 05, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 9 9 recommendations | email to a friend
Sierra Nolan, Selena Sisneroz and Brookelyn Santos practice their diabolical laughter in preparation for the Discovery Bay Elementary Halloween Parade.
School trustee resigns post
by Ruth Roberts
Nov 05, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 10 10 recommendations | email to a friend
Lisa Hultz, longtime trustee of the Byron Union School District Board, has resigned from her position effective immediately. Hultz notified County Superintendent Joseph Ovick on Oct. 23, citing per...
Talk About Town: Nov. 6
Nov 05, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 37 37 recommendations | email to a friend
Talks have begun about what Mayor Bob Taylor will do to ramp up his promise once his The Mayor Is A Turkey fundraiser breaks through the 300 mark. Taylor has been collecting $8 donations fo...
Project Gold Star gets boost from local event
Nov 03, 2009 | 1 1 comments | 18 18 recommendations | email to a friend
The California Department of Veterans Affairs has received a $10,000 donation from the Joey Graves Memorial Foundation for Project Gold Star. These funds were raised in honor of Joey Graves during ...
Applicants step up to fill vacant CSD board seats
by Ruth Roberts
Oct 29, 2009 | 7 7 comments | 10 10 recommendations | email to a friend
Nine Discovery Bay residents have applied to fill the two available CSD seats left vacant last month with the resignations of Treasurer Dave Dove and Director Shannon Murphy-Teixeira. The deadline ...
Forum on 2-Gates project gets raucous
by Ruth Roberts
Oct 29, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 12 12 recommendations | email to a friend
The standing-room-only crowd might have left their torches and pitchforks at home, but there was no denying the passion of the Discovery Bay residents who showed up Tuesday night to protest the con...
Talk About Town: Oct. 30
Oct 29, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 42 42 recommendations | email to a friend
Let it not be said that Brentwood’s senior citizens lead sedentary lives. According to this week’s Cop Logs, two venerable citizens were recently involved in a verbal altercation on Walnut Bou...
Seen in Mare Nostrum
Oct 29, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
The Romans called it “Our Sea,” but Margaret and Ron Puccinelli laid claim to the Mediterranean when they celebrated their 45th wedding anniversary, brandishing their Hometown Weekly Newspaper, on ...
Fog farmer
Oct 29, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 10 10 recommendations | email to a friend
A tractor makes its way across what appears to be a field of fog near Discovery Bay just after dawn recently. Photographer Stacey Chance happened upon the scene while apparently out searching for U...
Vasco to be closed next weekend
Oct 26, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 15 15 recommendations | email to a friend
Vasco Road will be closed from the evening of Oct. 29 through the morning of Nov. 2 to allow for the safe completion of the Vasco Road Safety Project. The project includes the construction of a new...
CSD OKs agenda pick-up location
by Ruth Roberts
Oct 22, 2009 | 1 1 comments | 18 18 recommendations | email to a friend
Discovery Bay CSD meeting agenda packets will now be available to the public on the Friday before a scheduled Wednesday meeting, even after the CSD offices close. In the past, the public has been i...
Retraction
Oct 22, 2009 | 44 44 comments | 13 13 recommendations | email to a friend
In last week’s edition, the Press reported a legal opinion from the California First Amendment Coalition that meetings of the Town of Discovery Bay’s Community Center Subcommittee (CCS), whose six ...
DBPOA gets new directors
by Ruth Roberts
Oct 22, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
Four seats on the Discovery Bay Property Owners Association (DBPOA) board have been filled following last month’s election, and President Dominic Carano hopes the combination of fresh and familiar ...
Bountiful harvest of Halloween fun
Oct 15, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 20 20 recommendations | email to a friend
It’s the season of witches, warlocks, ghosts and goblins, and if you’re looking for a frightfully fun time, or a happier harvest festival, there’s an abundance of upcoming events and ways to celebr...
P-6 citizen oversight committee named
by Ruth Roberts
Oct 15, 2009 | 1 1 comments | 10 10 recommendations | email to a friend
The Contra Costa County Board of Supervisors (BoS) approved the appointment of five Discovery Bay residents to the P6 Citizen Advisory Committee on Tuesday on the recommendation of Supervisor Mary ...