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When Rafael Ayala looked out his living room window in the Rose Garden neighborhood, he used to enjoy a sweeping vista of Mt. Diablo, standing tall on the horizon and occasionally accented with a d...
Sep 29, 2009 | 0 | 7 |
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Did you know circulation at the Brentwood Library has increased 43 percent in the past year?
For more on that and all the latest Brentwood news, click here to read City Manager Donna Landeros’ Ci...
Sep 28, 2009 | 0 | 8 |
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The Discovery Bay CSD Board will hold a special meeting on Wednesday, Sept. 30 at 6 p.m. in the district office, 1800 Willow Lake Road in Discovery Bay.
The purpose of the meeting is for the board...
Sep 24, 2009 | 0 | 17 |
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Local advocates for the Delta are wary of a plan whose purpose is to save the Delta, based on the questions and concerns voiced by many of the hundred people in the Brentwood Senior Center Saturday...
Sep 24, 2009 | 0 | 7 |
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The Contra Costa Mosquito and Vector Control District announced this week that Brentwood is at an elevated risk for West Nile virus. The determination stems from a report from the West Nile virus ...
Sep 24, 2009 | 0 | 12 |
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Representatives from Discovery Builders were greeted with another mass of concerned citizens at the Oakley City Council meeting this week as they presented their proposal for a new development off ...
Sep 24, 2009 | 3 | 10 |
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The Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. came to Antioch, ground zero for the foreclosure crisis in the county, on Sept. 17 to compare mortgage lenders to thieves and urge people to fight back instead of allowin...
Sep 23, 2009 | 0 | 5 |
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The Discovery Bay CSD Board has unanimously agreed to pay $10,000 to become members of a salinity management coalition that proponents say will help control and support the management of salt and n...
Sep 19, 2009 | 4 | 12 |
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Discovery Bay CSD Director Shannon Murphy-Teixeira resigned from the community services board on Friday.
“I am unable to provide the level of commitment required to serve this community as direc...
Sep 17, 2009 | 0 | 9 |
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The Oakley City Council unanimously approved a Youth Master Plan and Oakley Youth Empowerment Program in order to get more of the city’s youngest citizens involved in the community.
Recreation Supe...
Sep 17, 2009 | 8 | 7 |
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Seven Discovery Bay residents have thrown their hats into the P-6 advisory committee ring, applying for one of the five available seats on the panel that will oversee the expenditure of police serv...
Sep 17, 2009 | 1 | 8 |
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Local Delta advocates are breathing a sigh of relief after a package of state water bills that they consider all wet were bottled up in Sacramento last week when legislators failed to reach agreeme...
Sep 10, 2009 | 33 | 9 |
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The CSD Board has unanimously approved the hiring of NIA Creative to revamp the town’s current Web site. But questions surrounding the selection process and a substantial cost differential made for...
Sep 10, 2009 | 3 | 23 |
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They came to the podium one at a time in buttoned-down shirts, combed hair and respectful manners, achieving more in their allotted three minutes than any bureaucrat could have in twice that time.
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When Omar Kassem opened his mailbox a few months ago, the last thing he expected to see was a letter from his mortgage company notifying him that the Discovery Bay home he has lived in for the past...
Sep 10, 2009 | 1 | 15 |
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Discovery Builders, Inc. will need to wait another month to see if the Oakley City Council will approve its plans to build 34 homes on Knox Lane after a group of organized residents spoke against t...
Sep 10, 2009 | 5 | 12 |
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The proposal for a 5,000-square-foot nightclub for Lone Tree Way went down in flames Tuesday amid concerns for public and police safety and that it did not fit with Brentwood’s family-oriented styl...
Sep 10, 2009 | 0 | 9 |
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Brentwood resident Allison Jacobs, the UC Berkeley cop whose instincts helped break the 18-year-old Jaycee Dugard kidnapping case, was presented a key to the city by Mayor Bob Taylor Tuesday.
“This...
Sep 05, 2009 | 6 | 8 |
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Antioch Mayor Jim Davis, backed by dozens of community leaders, stood outside the city’s police station Friday to set the record straight: The house in which Phillip Garrido and his wife held Jayce...
Sep 02, 2009 | 3 | 16 |
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The apparent low bidder for the new Brentwood civic center project is Lathrop Construction of Benicia, whose bid of $28,486,000 was the lowest of 11 opened in the Council Chambers Tuesday afternoon...