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Today the nation stopped for two minutes of silence to remember the earthquake, exactly seven days ago to the minute. People stopped what they were doing and stood together to remember. It was very...
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When they hit at night, you wake up suddenly and quickly realize it's a quake and then wait to see how strong and if you need to get up or not.
Feb 18, 2011 | 0 | 5 |
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There’s nothing like kitchen-table guilt. From my kitchen table, I can look out on the path along the creek and see my ambitious neighbors wearing themselves out each morning. There they go, jounci...
Feb 16, 2011 | 0 | 5 |
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Tyler Page, a 13-year-old eighth-grade student at Brentwood’s J. Douglas Adams Middle School, has been named California’s top youth volunteer for 2011 by The Prudential Spirit of Community Awards, ...
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The City of Oakley holds a series of public workshops this week to explain the city’s plan to rezone residential areas that are inconsistent with the city’s General Plan.
The General Plan describes...
Feb 11, 2011 | 0 | 5 |
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For a writer, the opening of a new library is always a happy occasion. Especially when it does so with a magic touch, as presented by prestidigitator Timothy James. The tall, slim man with a distin...
Feb 04, 2011 | 0 | 5 |
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Don’t mess with philosophy. It’ll eat your lunch. Oh yes. It was that way the other day down at the actual philosophy counter at the Mule Barn truck stop.
It all began innocently enough, with Doc c...
Feb 02, 2011 | 0 | 6 |
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Sometimes having coffee with the guys down at the Mule Barn truck stop doesn’t lead to scintillating conversation. Like this morning. Instead of the philosophy counter, the guys were clutched toget...
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Groundhog Day brings to mind various associations, including the fervent hope of this snow-buried Bostonian that Punxsutawney Phil will not see his shadow this year and spring will come early. This...
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Susan Chanda, 29, has been teaching a special-education class – primarily through sign language – for eight years in a small village in Zambia, Africa. Such a class, nearly abandoned by government ...
Jan 24, 2011 | 0 | 5 |
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You’d think winter would give Sarah McKinley a bumper crop of readers down at the Read Me Now bookstore. You’d think.
But for some reason, she finds the need each winter to have some crazy promotio...
Jan 21, 2011 | 0 | 5 |
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
01-21-11 11:55 PM
UnitedHealthcare has donated $3,000 to the Loaves & Fishes of Contra Costa to help provide nutritious meals to area families in need.
For nearly three decad...
Jan 18, 2011 | 0 | 7 |
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In the summer of 2009 I defied some of the most depressing days of my life – a grueling job, sputtering academic success and a longing for more fulfillment in life – when I spent the better part of...
Jan 14, 2011 | 0 | 5 |
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Mickey Baker, down at The Strand, really knows how to start the new year off right. Mickey has owned our local movie house since Ike was playing golf, you see, and he has learned to adapt to the ti...
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The Maine Memorial Association has issued an open invitation to Iwo Jima survivors to attend a luncheon and commemorative memorial service marking the 66th anniversary of the 36-day bloody battle f...
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El Campanil Children’s Theatre is conducting auditions for its March production of “The Secret Garden,” directed by Sharon Redman. Auditions take place Monday, Jan. 10 at 4 p.m. at Antioch’s El Cam...
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It was great to see our resident cowboy, Steve, here at the Mule Barn truck stop’s version of knights of the breakfast round table this morning. He’s been in the hospital for a while, getting his i...
Dec 28, 2010 | 1 | 7 |
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East County residents who care about the plight of the homeless people on our streets and are frustrated with inadequate funding for the needs of our community can make a difference by joining the ...
Dec 23, 2010 | 0 | 7 |
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The Cornell University Glee Club will sing at the Liberty High School Performing Arts Center in Brentwood on Thursday, Jan. 6, 2011 at 7:30 p.m. The concert is part of the ensemble’s 2011 Californi...
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I guess the stranger was more obvious to us than if he’d been in a bigger town, because we just don’t get too many unless the fishing’s good in summer. A stranger tends to stick out, and when this ...