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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
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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...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...