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LETTERS: Our Sheltered Lives

To the Editor; Our most recent period of isolation has given me time to reflect on just how much our lives have changed this year — and are likely to change in the months ahead. Losing so many people and so much of our way of life has been like watching a car crash in…

Fish & Game Officials Investigating Reported Coyote Bite In Moraga

California Department of Fish and Wildlife officials are investigating a reported coyote encounter with a runner at the Campolindo High School track early Friday morning. Moraga police were dispatched to the area at approximately 6:30 a.m. after a runner reported being approached and bitten by a coyote while at the track. The animal was chased…

Nine Suspects In “Organized” Walnut Creek Looting Spree Charged

Nine people investigators say took part in an organized and systematic looting spree through downtown Walnut Creek earlier this year have been charged by the Contra Costa County District Attorney’s Office. Hundreds of people, including some police maintain are part of mobile, organized gangs who travel the state to pull off swarming, “blitz-style” shoplifting raids…

LETTER: Reader Frets About Christmas COVID Spike

Editor; The ambulances have been busy in our neighborhood lately. Talking to the neighbors can mean finding out someone you like is sick or in the hospital. The worst thing is finding out that the nice man who lived alone and waved at the kids on their way to school is gone, either taken to…

“Yes, Virginia – Santa Does Live In Danville…”

Letters dropped by Dec 10 will receive response by Dec 24 Looking for a place to drop-off those Christmas wish lists? Look no further than Santa’s Mailbox, now open at the Danville Community Center and Danville Library. Children can write a letter to Santa and drop it off from November 30, 2020 – December 10,…

Pittsburg Man Struck, Killed On SR242 Sunday Night

An investigation into a fatal late night accident on northbound SR242 in Concord is underway Monday after a man was ejected from one car and thrown into the path of another. Officers determined that a 1994 Honda Civic veered off the highway and into a concrete center divider at 11:33pm. The driver lost control of…

Rapper Alexander Mark “Lil Yase” Antonyyo, Jr. Victim Of Dublin Homicide

Police on Sunday confirmed the victim of a shooting near the East Dublin BART station was a San Francisco-born rapper last seen shortly before midnight at a recording session in Marin County. Alexander Mark “Lil Yase” Antonyyo’s movements from the time friends say he told them he’d be “right back” to the Marin County session…

Dublin Shooting Victim Dies Saturday; Police Investigating

Dublin police were looking for answers after a 26-year-old man was taken to Valley Care Medical Center in Pleasanton with multiple gunshot wounds early Saturday morning. Police said the victim arrived at the hospital at about 1 a.m. Investigators were able to determine the shooting happened near the East Dublin BART station and eventually located…

Fire Damages Home On Machado Court In Concord

Firefighters gained the upper hand on a residential fire on Machado Court in Concord on Saturday, searching the structure for two people believed inside but finding no one inside. The house proved difficult to access, firefighters said, due to the number of items stored inside. It was reported at 11:38 a.m. and reported out about…

Making It Through A Different Kind Of Thanksgiving

This holiday was an unusual one on a lot of fronts for us. We were missing some key people whose absence was acutely felt; the now-expected COVID restrictions were in place; what dinner table conversation there was steered clear of politics – televised sporting events flickered in the background with strange, cardboard cutouts of quarantined…