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Peachy adventure
Sep 11, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
More than 100 actors and technical crew join forces to present the stage version of “James and the Giant Peach” at Excelsior Middle School in performances running from Sept. 18 to 28. Roald Dahl’s ...
Run to the Bell Game
Sep 10, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 9 9 recommendations | email to a friend
Registration for the annual Bell Game Run is now underway. The four-mile run from Freedom High School to Liberty High School is held Saturday, Oct. 27 at 8 a.m. The Bell Game Run route proceeds dow...
Touching tribute
Sep 08, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
Banners honoring 26 Americans killed while serving their country in Iraq and Afghanistan went up this week along Discovery Bay Boulevard. The 9-foot banners, sponsored by the nonprofit organization...
Ed foundation vies for $250K grant
Sep 06, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 10 10 recommendations | email to a friend
Liberty Union High School District ED Foundation (LUHSD ED Foundation), a nonprofit working to enhance and enrich the district’s educational programs, is competing with charities nationwide for gra...
Twin tunnels project churns controversy
by Ruth Roberts
Sep 06, 2012 | 2 2 comments | 14 14 recommendations | email to a friend
When Gov. Jerry Brown revealed his recent support for a multi-billion dollar plan to construct twin tunnels under the Delta to route water south, local residents and officials raised their collecti...
Pvt. Michael A. Gonzales
Sep 06, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
Discovery Bay residents Art and Barbara Gonzales and family are proud to announce that their son and brother, Pvt. Michael A. Gonzales, 18, graduated from the United States Marine Corp boot camp at...
’Vettes star in Summerfest
Sep 06, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
The graceful lines of America’s iconic sports car – the Corvette – will grace The Streets of Brentwood as the Discovery Bay Corvettes hold their Summerfest 2012 All Corvette Type I Car Show on Satu...
Concert on the Bay adds Touch of Class
Sep 06, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
The Discovery Bay Lions Club host a free concert Saturday, Sept. 15 from 4 to 7:30 p.m. at the Discovery Bay Yacht Harbor. The high-energy 11-piece band Touch of Class will get everyone movin’ and ...
East County fire district accepts $7.8 million in grants for more firefighters
by Rick Lemyre
Aug 30, 2012 | 2 2 comments | 20 20 recommendations | email to a friend
Calling it “a lifeline” and a “two-year, get-out-of-jail free card,” the East Contra Costa Fire Protection District Board Wednesday voted 7-0 to accept $7.8 million in FEMA grants to hire firefigh...
Golf tournament honors heroes
by Ruth Roberts
Aug 30, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
When Kevin Graves created the Some Gave All, Joey Graves Foundation in 2006, his intent was to honor not only his son – who died in Baghdad in 2006 – but the lives of the currently more than 700 Ca...
Lions to hit grand slam
Aug 26, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
The Discovery Bay Lions Club is hosting four fun-filled events in town on Saturday, Sept. 15, featuring activities in the Boardwalk Grill parking lot; a concert at the yacht harbor; the Lions’ popu...
East Contra Costa fire awarded $7.8 million in FEMA grants
by Rick Lemyre
Aug 24, 2012 | 10 10 comments | 15 15 recommendations | email to a friend
The East Contra Costa Fire Protection District has been awarded $7.8 million in grants from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to rehire firefighters laid off in July. ECCFPD Chief H...
The odyssey of the Byer/Nail Museum
by Shirley L. McCall
East Contra Costa Historical Society
Aug 24, 2012 | 1 1 comments | 52 52 recommendations | email to a friend
It all began in April of 1970. More than 40 of East Contra Costa’s most prominent citizens interested in local history met to organize a historical society. Their immediate mission was an attempt t...
Three arrested for child porn possession
by Kyle Szymanski
Aug 23, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
Three East County residents were arrested on charges of possessing child pornography Aug. 15 after police served search warrants in Antioch, Brentwood and Discovery Bay, Brentwood Police Sgt. Tim H...
Splashin’ to cash in
Aug 23, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
More than 60 boats hit the water last weekend for the annual Big Cat Poker Run, a charity fundraiser sponsored by the Discovery Bay Lions Club. Boats made stops at Humphrey’s in Antioch and The Wat...
Dog paddling
Aug 19, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
Word that a seal was wandering around Lido Bay lately spurred Discovery Bay’s Shelly Flack to take to the water and join in the effort to locate it. Along for the ride was her dog, Josie. We’re not...
From the Dais: American Avenue traffic fix set
by Press Staff Reports
Aug 19, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 9 9 recommendations | email to a friend
From the Dais, a wrap-up of the most recent meetings of local government bodies in Antioch, Brentwood, Discovery Bay and Oakley, runs every other week in The Press. Antioch At its Tuesday mee...
Dinner in the Orchard branches out
by Ruth Roberts
Aug 18, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
Last year when Barbara Franz hosted her annual Dinner in the Orchard fundraiser, the event was a paper plate, no-frills affair. This year, she’s taking it up a notch. “We’re breaking out the white ...
Races set for November election
Aug 16, 2012 | 2 2 comments | 19 19 recommendations | email to a friend
Updated: 8-17-12 10:50 a.m. The candidate filing period for this year’s November election closed Wednesday.
Discovery Bay CSD 101
Aug 16, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
This is the first in an ongoing series of articles contributed each month by the Discovery Bay CSD. The Town of Discovery Bay is not a city, but a type of municipal government known as a Commun...