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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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Shirley L. McCall East Contra Costa Historical SocietyThepress.Net
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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 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...
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...
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, 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...
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 ...
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...