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Teachers honor music students
Mar 27, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
More than 140 local piano and flute students recently passed the Certificate of Merit music evaluation held in the Delta branch of the California Music Teachers’ Association. The students were test...
Benevolent ice cream predator
Mar 26, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
Former longtime school board member and school namesake Dr. R. Paul Krey tries to take a bite out of a Krey School student’s ice cream sundae at a recent school fundraiser at Baskin-Robbins. Severa...
Local pool man appointed international contest judge
Mar 23, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
Mike Logan, President of Logan Pools in Brentwood, has been appointed a judge in the Master Pools Guild’s International Awards of Merit contest. Each year, members of this global network of elite c...
Guest Commentary: Why local newspapers matter
by Glenn Scherer
Mar 23, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
This February, Denver’s Rocky Mountain News died. In March, The Tucson Citizen followed. Meanwhile hundreds of other American newspapers reduced staff and declared themselves in significant economi...
Golf course offers free golf and job fair
Mar 20, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
On April 8, Brentwood Golf Club will unveil its own stimulus package, it’s Recession Relief program. The program, developed in response to the challenging times throughout the country and particula...
Toolbox for Education helps build dreams
Mar 20, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 9 9 recommendations | email to a friend
Liberty High School teacher Chris McDermott’s longtime vision to have his students design and build permanent construction workstations is becoming a reality, thanks to funding from a Lowe’s Toolbo...
Guest Commentary: The truth of global warming: Are we doomed for man’s inaction?
Mar 20, 2009 | 1 1 comments | 9 9 recommendations | email to a friend
by Rev. Austin Miles Oakley The Bible makes it clear that we humans are to tend the garden as he instructed Adam and Eve. We must take care of the Earth we occupy. Man has been so lax, so careless...
Legislation addresses signature injury of Iraq War
Mar 20, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 03-20-09 205 PM Congressman Jerry McNerney (CA-11) introduced a piece of critical legislation to address the needs of our men and women in uniform: the Caring for Veterans wi...
Free classes provide whole-grain resources and recipes
Mar 20, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
Health experts advise consumers to incorporate more whole-grain foods in their everyday diets. But 80 percent of Americans are not getting the recommended three servings per day. One reason could b...
Local author to sign book
Mar 20, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
Author Laverne Baker will be at Barnes & Noble, 5709 Lone Tree Way in Antioch, on Saturday, April 4 at 2 p.m. to sign copies of her first book, “Nourishment for the Soul.” From the time baker was a...
Call for dancers, singers, actors
Mar 20, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
Steve Kinsella of The Kinsella Theater Group announces that the group will for the first time bring two Summer Intensive Theater Camps to the East Count area. The classes meet three hours daily, Mo...
Police: bank robbery an inside job
Mar 20, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
On Feb. 25 at 5:52 p.m., Antioch Police patrol units responded to the report of a bank robbery at the Metro One Credit Union. An extensive search of the area was conducted, augmented by a police ca...
McNerney hails passage of water legislation
Mar 20, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
Congressman Jerry McNerney has announced the passage of important water legislation that would create a grant program to identify new water sources through such methods as recycling, reclamation an...
Paradise Cup results
Mar 17, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 9 9 recommendations | email to a friend
Guila's Hawaiian Kaju-Kickboxing Gym held the Paradise Cup on Feb. 28 in Antioch. Click here for the results. Guila's is located at 4389 Hillcrest Ave. For more information, call 925-755-3434.
Heritage students rally for diversity
Mar 10, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
Heritage High School’s Black Student Union sponsored a Marching Forward Celebration of Diversity last week, honoring the100th anniversary of the NAACP. Cheryl Cooper, education chair for the East C...
Students embark on Odyssey of the Mind
Mar 10, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
After taking first place in the San Francisco Bay Regional Odyssey of the Mind competition in February, a team of science students from Heritage High School has set its sights on competing at the u...
Body language unmasked
Mar 10, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
Eliot Fintushel, the Master of Mime and Mask, will visit the Oakley Library on Wednesday, April 1 at 4 p.m. The free program, open to children of all ages, is funded by First 5 Contra Costa, which ...
New state highway plan gets rolling
Mar 10, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
Contra Costa County District III Supervisor Mary Piepho gathered elected and community leaders recently to kick off planning for the new State Highway 239, which will connect State Route 4 in the B...
Buying local is good for you
by David Lillard
Mar 09, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
There are two hardware stores near my house. One is a big name-brand store that has everything I need at lower prices, open seven days a week. The other has inconvenient hours – they close at noon ...
The Clarences to play at Foundation fundraiser
Mar 09, 2009 | 1 1 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
The Deer Valley High School Education Advancement Foundation will host its third annual gala dinner event on March 21 from 6 to 11 p.m. at the Lone Tree Golf Course Event Center. This year’s theme ...