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Additional Businesses Opening In Contra Costa County
The California Department of Public Health on Friday announced new statewide guidelines to make regulations and community re-openings more standardized throughout the state. Contra Costa and most other counties are now in the purple (most restrictive) tier. According to these new state rules, hair salons and barber shops can now operate indoors in Contra Costa…
Read MoreNeed A Little More Living Space? Danville’s Garden Cottage Program Underway
From the Town of Danville: Beginning Monday, August 31, 2020, the Town of Danville has begun the Garden Cottage Program, which will allow residents access to free, pre-approved, permit-ready, printable, construction plans for the building of Accessory Dwelling Units (ADU). An ADU is a self-contained living unit that is usually smaller than the main home…
Read MoreThe Sunday Supplement
How’s everyone doing? No… really, you can tell us. Talk to your Local News Dudes. Us? We’re rocking, thanks for asking. Busy now as more people poke their heads out of their Hidey-Holes, still masked up like highwaymen but moving around. Had a nice moment with an older gent on Friday, us elbowing the door…
Read MoreLast Of Three Orinda Robbery Suspects Arrested – In Texas
From Orinda PD: All three suspects involved in an armed robbery that occurred on July 25, 2020 in Orinda have been arrested. The robbery occurred on Fallen Leaf Terrace in Orinda at about 2 PM when armed suspects approached a resident as he was unloading his vehicle in his driveway. The suspects fled with personal…
Read MoreOne Person Believed Hit In Walnut Creek Drive-By Friday
Passersby scattered after a flurry of gunfire broke out in the 3100 block of Oak Road in Walnut Creek Friday, wounding one person and sparking reports of a possible running gun battle between different factions in separate cars. The incident, reported at 1:28 p.m., triggered a swarm of reports from witnesses who all reported seeing…
Read MoreBusy Morning: Structure Fire In Orinda; Wrong-Way Pursuit On 24/680
We had the cucumber-base beauty mask on and were working on those under-eye satchels we’ve been carrying around lately when bing bing bing – the alarm bells start going off. Various agencies participated in an early a.m., circuitous pursuit of a local Thunder Runner who decided to make a break for home, leading officers on…
Read MoreLetters: Have We Gotten To The “Very Bad, Very Bad” Part, Yet?
As an interested observer of our national landscape I can’t help but notice that we appear to be separating into armed camps – along the lines of the “bikers” and “tough people” the person in the White House claimed were on his side. Today a 17-year-old carrying an assault rifle in the streets of Kenosha,…
Read MoreData Suggests A Leveling of COVID-19 Transmission In Contra Costa County
Wednesday, August 26, 2020 Daily hospitalizations due to COVID-19 and the percentage of COVID-19 tests returning positive remained steady or fell slightly in Contra Costa County during early August, reflecting recent local progress in slowing the spread of a deadly virus. These key data indicators for the pandemic remain at dangerously high levels in Contra…
Read MoreThree Dead In Fiery Walnut Creek Freeway Crash
Investigators are attempting to determine why a car with three people aboard crashed and burned on the North Main Street offramp of I680 northbound late Tuesday evening. Crews responding to reports of a tree on fire at that location at approximately 10:40 p.m. found the Pontiac Grand Prix fully engulfed in flames and determined that…
Read MoreTerraces Of Lafayette Project Passes By 4-1 Vote
By far the most bitterly contested land use proposal to come before the Lafayette City Council in recent memory was passed by a 4 to 1 vote early Tuesday and appears on its way to construction. The Terraces of Lafayette project was passed despite continued, expressed concerns over traffic and evacuation routes in the event…
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