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A letter providing the comments from the town’s board about a proposed development in Discovery Bay has been delayed a second time, this time by the director most dismayed by the first delay.
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Mar 25, 2010 | 0 | 6 |
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The City Council approved a resolution Tuesday seeking five assurances from the BART Board regarding the planned 10-mile eBART line in the Highway 4 median from the Bay Point BART Station to Hillcr...
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The Oakley City Council unanimously voted Tuesday to enter a community-benefits agreement with Contra Costa Generating Station, LLC even though the California Energy Commission isn’t expected to ma...
Mar 18, 2010 | 0 | 10 |
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Have you sent in your 2010 Census questionnaire yet? More than 120 million households received Census forms this week, and the U.S. Census Bureau is encouraging everyone to respond as soon as possi...
Mar 11, 2010 | 6 | 9 |
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Obligated by election law to place an initiative seeking to annex 740 acres to the city’s southwest border on the June ballot, there was little the Brentwood City Council could do Tuesday except or...
Mar 11, 2010 | 1 | 11 |
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Some Antioch households will be paying an extra 26 or 27 percent to get their trash picked up, under a contract extension with Allied Waste Services (AWS) approved on a 4-1 vote of the City Council...
Mar 11, 2010 | 0 | 16 |
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It took nearly a year, a request from the Board of Supervisors (BoS), and County Administrator David Twa to finally make it happen, but Monday night the residents of Discovery Bay convened their fi...
Mar 11, 2010 | 0 | 10 |
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Work will proceed on a $9.8 million solid waste transfer station in Brentwood after the City Council decided it makes the best sense for ratepayers.
The facility, which will be able to handle the c...
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UPDATED (3-16/1:30 p.m.) Discovery Bay’s groundbreaking, eco-friendly wetlands will be blooming for at least another two years.
The CSD approved the extension of the Wetlands Trial Project at the F...
Mar 10, 2010 | 1 | 10 |
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The sales and income tax hikes passed by the state legislature last year to help reduce California’s budget deficit should be extended for several more years, Assemblywoman Joan Buchanan told 20 pe...
Mar 04, 2010 | 1 | 14 |
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The Delta Family YMCA in Oakley will be closing its doors at the end of the month, but plans for a Special Kids all-abilities playground at the O’Hara Avenue site remain intact.
“We’re sorry to see...
Mar 04, 2010 | 19 | 8 |
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The Brentwood City Council next Tuesday will consider the potential effects of a proposal to add almost 750 acres of housing, commercial development and parks to its boundaries, and is expected to ...
Mar 02, 2010 | 3 | 14 |
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County supervisors last week unanimously opposed a request by Oakley resident Arthur Mijares to change the name of Mt. Diablo to Mt. Reagan. Mijares believes that naming the county’s most prominent...
Feb 25, 2010 | 0 | 9 |
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The crowd at Tuesday’s Oakley City Council meeting burst into applause following the council’s unanimous vote to approve the Downtown Specific Plan, a document that has been evolving over the past ...
Feb 25, 2010 | 0 | 6 |
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For the past 10 months, City of Pittsburg officials have been steadily ratcheting up their threat level – from code blue to yellow to orange – to pull out of an East County road funding agency if m...
Feb 25, 2010 | 0 | 9 |
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Jan. 27, 2010
It’s near midnight and time to go home to my apartment 10 blocks east of the Capitol. The crowds have dispersed, and the long hall connecting the Senate Chamber to the north and the...
Feb 18, 2010 | 0 | 7 |
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After 10 years of planning, the Oakley City Council will finally be presented with the Downtown Specific Plan during a public hearing at its meeting next Tuesday.
Oakley has been working on the Dow...
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The Oakley City Council has reversed a January decision and will implement a $165-per-month pay increase for each of its members right away.
At its Jan. 12 meeting, the council voted to postpone a ...
Feb 18, 2010 | 0 | 7 |
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After completing its Phase I Pilot Project, the City of Antioch has begun Phase II of its $4.65 million Building and Street Light Energy Efficient Retrofit Project.
Seven city buildings have alread...
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It was symbolic of the stuck-in-the-mud pace of progress that has been typical of the East Contra Costa Fire Protection District’s move to self-governance. The newly formed board of directors, face...