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Following this week’s appointment by county supervisors of the final two members the new governing board of the East Contra Costa Fire Protection District, the board will hold its first meeting on ...
Jan 26, 2010 | 0 | 15 |
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Pointing to a tepid economy and worries over sewer and water capacity, the Discovery Bay CSD withheld its blessing last week on a proposed 67 home subdivision in the west end of town.
William Schra...
Jan 25, 2010 | 0 | 12 |
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Antioch’s city government is sick in bed with the fiscal flu, but it’s expected to pull through, according to Mayor Jim Davis, who chose the venue of Dozier-Libbey Medical High School to deliver a ...
Jan 21, 2010 | 7 | 17 |
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County Supervisor Mary Piepho, speaking before a dozen people at a Brentwood Chamber of Commerce meeting last week, blasted state legislators for ignoring local concerns and passing legislation she...
Jan 21, 2010 | 0 | 11 |
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The Oakley City Council has postponed its salary raise until monthly staff furlough days conclude in June.
The council adopted an ordinance in 2006 to increase each member’s salary from $300 per mo...
Jan 21, 2010 | 0 | 11 |
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You are worth $1,700 annually to your government, and government officials will soon be counting on you to make sure the money keeps coming in.
That was the message from Tessie Zaragoza of the U.S....
Jan 14, 2010 | 5 | 11 |
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Mayor Jim Davis led off Tuesday’s City Council meeting by saying, “I think it’s going to be an exciting year for all of us.” And then the mayor and council were confronted by more excitement than t...
Jan 14, 2010 | 2 | 14 |
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In response to a petition organized by the Committee To Stop Rosewood, the Oakley City Council voted Tuesday night to rescind its decision to rezone the Rosewood development in order to comply with...
Jan 11, 2010 | 0 | 19 |
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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...
Jan 07, 2010 | 1 | 17 |
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Two train cars across from the Hillcrest Park-and-Ride lot containing hate-filled graffiti have been painted over after an Antioch resident and officials complained to Union Pacific Railroad.
For m...
Jan 07, 2010 | 45 | 26 |
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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...
Jan 07, 2010 | 0 | 8 |
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Several local tanning salons are seeing red over the 10-percent tax on tanning services included in the U.S. Senate version of the Congressional health care legislation.
“I don’t think our services...
Dec 31, 2009 | 3 | 8 |
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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...
Dec 31, 2009 | 0 | 14 |
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The Committee to Stop Rosewood, comprised of more than 100 Oakley residents, has successfully obtained enough Oakley voters’ signatures to put a temporary halt to the proposed Rosewood Estates hous...
Dec 31, 2009 | 4 | 12 |
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The lawyers for five African-American women suing Antioch police for racial discrimination have accused the city of deleting evidence showing racial bias by an officer, an accusation that the city ...
Dec 30, 2009 | 1 | 12 |
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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...
Dec 24, 2009 | 40 | 23 |
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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...
Dec 17, 2009 | 13 | 20 |
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The City of Antioch’s legal team has come out swinging in response to a lawsuit filed by several African-American women alleging racial discrimination by Antioch police in attempting to get them re...
Dec 17, 2009 | 1 | 11 |
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The eastern location for the Hillcrest eBART station that Antioch officials prefer might not be worth the additional cost – possibly as much as $51 million extra, according to a recent study.
“Desp...
Dec 17, 2009 | 0 | 10 |
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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...