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Blowback – Are We Witnessing The End Of Gas-Powered “Gardening” Gear In California?
You may have heard that California is poised to become the first state in the nation to phase out the use of gas-powered lawn equipment, aka blowers, mowers, and trimmers. Depending on your preferences and threshold for pain, you’re either leaping for joy right now or speed dialing your lawyer to file a blocking lawsuit…
Read MoreContra Costa To Lift Masking Requirements In Some Indoor Settings Nov. 1
With COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations declining, Contra Costa County will lift masking requirements on Nov. 1 in certain indoor settings where everyone is fully vaccinated. Eligible settings are in controlled spaces not open to the general public, including offices, gyms and fitness centers, employee commuter vehicles, indoor college classes and organized gatherings in any other…
Read MoreSkateboarder Stabbed After Altercation In Pleasant Hill Wednesday
A young man skateboarding in the area of Putnam and Oak Park boulevards was stabbed by the occupants of a passing car Wednesday night after someone in the car threw eggs at the victim and he retaliated. Police are looking for an older model white Toyota Corolla 4-door or possibly similar car with a windshield…
Read More“Ram Raiders” Strike Local Merchants Overnight
Local Ram Raiders – those prone to driving their vehicles into storefronts in order to plunder the contents – were at work in the 24/680 overnight. A van drove into a liquor and food store in the 600 block of Gregory Lane at about 4:50 a.m. this morning, the raiders stuffing the store’s ATM in…
Read MoreLetters: An Oasis Of Incivility
Editor: With all that is happening in the world it was shocking to see Facebook taking up so much of the airwaves this week – with an actual whistle blower in the witness chair and many people talking about the damage that the company does. I must start by saying that I don’t use Facebook…
Read MorePG&E To Conduct Gas Safety And Reliability Inspection In Unincorporated Walnut Creek
From Contra Costa County Public Works: PG&E to Conduct a Gas Safety and Reliability Inspection in Unincorporated Walnut Creek October 8, 2021, unincorporated Walnut Creek, CA – Contra Costa County Public Works Department has issued a permit to Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) to conduct a routine gas transmission maintenance inspection along Olympic Boulevard…
Read MoreMan, Those Lawn Statues Are Getting More Lifelike Every Year…
Just another day in MooRaga.
Read MoreCan We Scrub The Planet’s Atmosphere – One Individual Forest At A Time?
We’re looking for land. It’s a thing of ours – all the ancestors were miners and ranchers and farriers and they all had “spreads.” They lived close to the earth and they learned to work it, alongside their crops and animals. We used to visit, before our family succumbed to the Jet Age and moved…
Read MoreBay Area Health Officers Issue Criteria For Lifting Indoor Masking Requirements
From County Health Services: As decisions to vaccinate and wear face coverings indoors drive down COVID-19 case rates and hospitalizations, health officers for the nine Bay Area jurisdictions that require face coverings in most indoor public spaces today reached consensus on criteria to lift those health orders. These health officers continue to work together across…
Read MoreBerkeley PD Arrests Five Juveniles – Ages 11 To 15 – For Crime Spree Including Walnut Creek Purse Snatch
Five youths believed to have committed a violent purse snatch in Walnut Creek as well as other crimes were arrested by Berkeley police after a vehicle pursuit and crash in that city Tuesday. The youths, at least two of whom reportedly have extensive criminal histories despite their age, have been linked to Monday’s assault on…
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