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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
Dec 10, 2009 | 0 | 9 |
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The Contra Costa County Board of Supervisors is seeking two individuals to serve on the East Contra Costa Fire Protection District's (ECCFPD) Board of Directo...
Dec 10, 2009 | 6 | 54 |
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Discovery Bay residents Brian Dawson and Kevin Graves have been appointed by the Contra Costa County Board of Supervisors (BOS) to fill the town’s two empty CSD board seats. The unanimous appointme...
Dec 10, 2009 | 1 | 12 |
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A proposal to form a civilian board to provide oversight of the police department and help select a new police chief appears all but dead after numerous residents spoke against it at Tuesday’s Anti...
Dec 10, 2009 | 0 | 10 |
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The Brentwood City Council said yes to a parking fine hike, picked four new fire district directors, continued a sign moratorium and said goodbye for the year.
According to a staff report on parkin...
Dec 10, 2009 | 0 | 10 |
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For the third time in Oakley’s 10 years of cityhood, Pat Anderson will serve as mayor. At Tuesday’s City Council meeting, the council unanimously appointed Anderson for the position and promoted ju...
Dec 09, 2009 | 6 | 9 |
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Congressman John Garamendi held his first town hall meeting in Antioch on Saturday, a month after being elected to serve out the remaining year of Ellen Tauscher’s 10th Congressional District term,...