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BVAL Notebook: Golfers prep for NCS
May 12, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
Bay Valley Athletic League golf teams will be well-represented at Monday’s North Coast Section Meet of Champions. Deer Valley, by virtue of winning the league season championship and league tourna...
Denizens of the Delta
May 12, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
The Delta Science Center committee recently hosted Extreme Delta – Inland Voyage event as part of Oakley Science Week. The event featured a chance for folks to get hands-on with marine life, includ...
Role reversal
May 12, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
Freedom High physical education and health teacher Francisco Zelaya takes a jump shot during last week’s Freedom vs. Heritage faculty basketball game. Zelaya, who coaches the junior varsity boys ba...
Gallery now open
May 12, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
More than 120 guests attended the grand opening of the Open Studio Gallery in Brentwood on May 5. Guests came out to view a selected piece of art by each of the artists on the Artists’ Open Studio...
Oakley Cop Log: May 2 to May 8
May 12, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
May 2 – A vehicle accident with property damage occurred on Laurel Road at Main Street. May 2 – An armed robbery was reported on Brownstone Road at O’Hara Avenue. May 3 – A vehicle was towed ...
A silver for Elite
May 10, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
The Elite 9U baseball team took second place in a recent tournament in Manteca. Elite reached the championship game but lost 8-0 to the Triple Play baseball club out of Bakersfield. It was the team...
Falcon flies to Grinnell
May 09, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
Freedom senior linebacker David Ternes, the reigning Bay Valley Athletic League defensive player of the year, recently committed to Grinnell College, a Division III school in Iowa. Ternes, who led ...
Oakley Pastor Jerry Hanoum found dead
by Rick Lemyre and Ruth Roberts
May 05, 2011 | 28 28 comments | 93 93 recommendations | email to a friend
UPDATED 5-11-11 2:50 p.m. Officials have confirmed a suicide note was found at the scene where Oakley Pastor Jerry Hanoum killed himself, but the contents of the letter have not been revealed, sai...
Locals vie for county teacher of the year
by Samie Hartley
May 05, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 11 11 recommendations | email to a friend
For the second year in a row, two East County teachers have made it to the Contra Costa County Teacher of the Year semifinals. The county winner will go on to compete for California Teacher of the ...
Fire district: No new tax for now
by Rick Lemyre
May 05, 2011 | 11 11 comments | 25 25 recommendations | email to a friend
The East Contra Costa Fire Protection District board voted unanimously Monday to reject a consultant’s report that was to have been the basis for a new benefit assessment district designed to ease ...
School district merger idea not popular
by Ruth Roberts
May 05, 2011 | 9 9 comments | 19 19 recommendations | email to a friend
A round table meeting called last week by Supervisor Mary Piepho to discuss the possible unification of East County’s five small school districts proved a non-starter, ending with the majority of s...
Middle schoolers visit Middle Ages
by Ruth Roberts
May 05, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
It was a day of falconry, fanfare and fiddles as O’Hara Park Middle School seventh-graders got an up-close look at life in the Middle Ages at the Renaissance Faire held this week on the school camp...
Reptiles charm children
by Samie Hartley
May 05, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
Python Ron knows how to draw a crowd. While some don’t want to be in the same room with snakes and large lizards, more than 100 kids and their families turned out for the special Reptile Kingdom pr...
Call for Cityhood vendors
May 05, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
The City of Oakley hosts its annual Cityhood Celebration on Saturday, July 2, and city staff is currently looking for vendors who’d like to participate. Vendors are welcome to sell their wares, mar...
BVAL stars at elite event
by Michael Dixon
May 05, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
The Bay Valley Athletic League’s track and field athletes had a strong contingency at last weekend’s Sacramento Meet of Champions. Athletes from Deer Valley, Heritage, Freedom and Pittsburg all tra...
Business license renewals
May 05, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
The City of Oakley will soon be mailing business license renewals to area businesses. All current business licenses expire on June 30, and licensees will automatically be mailed a renewal notice at...
School breaches lease agreement
by Ruth Roberts
May 05, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
Despite promises to make good on an outstanding balance of nearly $70,000, the Mountain View Christian Center (MVCC) has once again reneged on its lease agreement with the Oakley Union School Distr...
Oakley Cop Log: April 18 to May 1
May 05, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
April 18 – On Bridgehead Road at Main Street, a subject was arrested for obstructing an officer. April 18 – A bicycle was stolen from Carpenter Road at Heathrow Drive. April 19 – A residence ...
Senior ties up first Mr. Freedom title
by Samie Hartley
May 04, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
Minutes into the inaugural Mr. Freedom competition, senior Matt McKeen sealed his fate during the round-one interview. When asked “If you had one wish for the world, what would it be?” McKeen looke...
Oakley Relay raises more than $100K
by Samie Hartley
May 04, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
After raising more than $72,000 at last year’s Oakley Relay For Life, organizers hoped to raise $85,000 this time around, but they didn’t need hope. More than 400 Oakley residents participated in R...